Refreshment Services, Inc

PepsiAmericas is the second largest Pepsi bottler, with operations in the United States, central Europe and the Caribbean. The company manufactures, distributes and markets a broad portfolio of Pepsi-Cola core brands, Cadbury beverages and other national and regional brands in 19 U.S. locations, as well as Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the Republic of Slovakia. In total, the company serves a population of more than 122 million people. PepsiCo holds a 41.1 percent equity interest in PepsiAmericas. PepsiAmericas is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol PAS. The company is based in Minneapolis, and it has an additional location in Morton, Ill.

MJ Kellner, an institutional food distributor, has been in business for more than 70 years. In 1920, Maurice J. Kellner established a wholesale sugar company known as M.J. Kellner Company. His son, H.J. Kellner, turned the company into an institutional food business in 1945. It has become one of the leading contract-bid food service suppliers in the United States. Contract-bid business is done in Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas and Georgia. MJ Kellner services restaurants, hotels, nursing homes, hospitals and schools. The company is a supplier of various types of food from other manufacturers and brands, such as ConAgra Foods, John Morrell and Marzetti. MJ Kellner operates a distribution center and maintains headquarters in Springfield, Ill.