| Our Company has been focused on serving our customers with corn and wheat products since 1898. |
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| Our Taste & Tradition |
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| John Cory, Managing Director, CEO |
 John owns the company and has thoroughly enjoyed working with the company's customers, farmer-growers, suppliers, and employees during these past years as he has seen the business grow rapidly. John is a native Hoosier, loyal to Purdue. His farming background made commodity trading in the early 1980s in Chicago with Drexel Burnham Lambert a good success that led to a twenty plus year career in investment banking and private equity with what is now JP Morgan Chase, and one of Indiana's leading private equity firms. During the past several months, he has been instrumental in overhauling the company's business model, for higher value products, higher through-put at the mill, establishing Program Pricing for customers, promoting significantly higher quality standards, and using much broader use of national marketing programs for business development. John is focused on building a company that serves its customers reliably, with very high quality products, that makes cost effectiveness an important goal, and pushes hard toward building a company that is known for going the extra mile in service, innovation and integrity. John and his two teenage boys are always busy with family activities, school, church and hobbies such as flying. He is also active in several food and agricultural initiatives in third world countries, particularly on the continent of Africa, and in Kenya in particular.
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| Gary Swaim, National Sales Manager |
 Gary is a veteran of the food and agricultural industry, and during the past thirty years has built meaningful relationships in the food business across the United States as well as the globe. Gary is responsible for all of the sales of the Company. During the past years, he has successfully developed programs for Supply Chain Managers in industrial production, commercial bakeries, and food service. With his longstanding relationships in the grocery markets, he has successfully expanded the company's presence in retail supermarkets. Furthermore, he has installed various pricing programs for customers to reduce the extreme price volatility domestic and international commodity markets have imposed on all our customers. Early in Gary's career, he was a radio celebrity in Michigan and West Virginia. His Indiana farm roots brought him back to Indiana in the early 1980's where he worked for the Lt. Governor of the State of Indiana and with his ag background eventually became the statewide Director of Agriculture. Gary's family's farm in west central Indiana has historically been one of the most well respected American Angus Cattle Breeders in the country. This farm is also just a few miles away from the John's family's farm. Gary and his wife have two teenage children that keep them busy. They live outside Mooresville in one of Indiana's most scenic and historical log homes. Gary is very active in civic, philanthropic, and church activities of his community and the state.
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| Jill Pugh, Controller |
 Jill is a Certified Public Accountant with nearly twenty years of accounting experience, much of which in both large corporate and middle market tax and audit work with one of the country's largest regional accounting firms, which is based in Indianapolis. Her accounting career has been focused in the Midwest, primarily in Indiana and Illinois. Jill is a native of Rochester, Indiana where she and her husband now live and raise their two boys. Jill has also worked in accounting roles in private industry, and in the food industry in particular. She has brought the Company accounting systems and standards necessary for it to continue to grow at the pace it has been. She has also built systems for inventory management, hedge accounting, procurement, and treasury management. Besides her busy work as the company's Controller, Jill is a busy mom, with two full throttle boys. She is very active in the community, whether at school, church or other civic activities.
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| Robb Tatum, Director of Operations and Plant Manager at Rochester |
 Robb Tatum is the Director of Operations, and the Rochester facility's Plant Manager. Robb has brought fifteen years of Tate & Lyle grain milling and food manufacturing experience to the Company. Most recently he oversaw operations at Tate & Lyle's Ingredients plant in Maine. Tate & Lyle is one of the world's largest manufacturers of corn based starches and corn sweeteners. His years of working in the grain and food business have covered many areas, from production to packaging to the full range of quality standards and compliance. He has overseen both simple and complex production facilities, as well as various types and sizes of production crews. The food industry continues to become more efficient and productive, as well as focused on delivering higher standards for quality in all products. Robb is a Hoosier, having grown up in rural Indiana where his family root are. Ball State University grounded him well before his career began. Robb has always been active in civic and community events. As the Company continues to grow, we see Robb's leadership in operations and the community as an important contribution.
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| Brian Morrow, Director of Facilities and Quality Control at Deshler |
 Brian is responsible for the company's facilities at Deshler, Ohio. Brian has been the company's point person in charge of relocating an organic mill the Company acquired in mid-summer 2008. The organic mill that was purchased was relocated to a large facility that once housed one of Ohio's largest seed operations owned by Monsanto-Dekalb. Brian's professional trade skills that range from concrete, masonry, metal work and steel fabricating, electrical wiring, plumbing, pneumatic material handling, and stone work all became a necessary part of the process of relocating a milling operation in a six month period of time. Furthermore, having worked in Food Service and Restaraunt management for many years, he has a strong background for food products,baking materials, quality assurance standards, and how and why service is vital to the food industry. Brian is a native of Deshler and with his wife, is busy raising two children. He is active coaching both baseball and
wrestling. Brian is an important part of his community and his church and this company.
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| Diana Feliciano, Sales and Shipping Associate |
 Diana Feliciano has the important role of working with customers each day, taking orders and making certain that shipments are properly scheduled. Diana works closely with each customer to make sure what product is needed, when it is to be delivered, where it is to be shipped, and other important needs each customer has. Diana leads a busy life, and lives in the Rochester community. She is tri-lingual, English, Spanish and French, and has helped our Company with food service customers that cater to important clients in the Hispanic and European restaraunt markets. Diana enjoys food creations and the experiences of what good food means to families.
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| Linda Redding, Administrative Assistant |
 Linda Redding is often the first person anyone calling our company talks with. She is the company's quick-witted Administrative Assistant, and is often how the communications glue keeps everything pulled together. A former native of Logansport, Indiana, she has been a part of the local community most all of her life, and has been active raising her family and taking care of her two daughter's children on a regular basis. She is active in many social events and her church. Linda is very much part of the heart and soul of our Company.
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