INTRODUCTION

The Company has been engaged in the sale of specialty food products under the VITA brand name for over 70 years. The Company believes that its long history of producing and marketing quality products has created a strong recognition of the VITA brand name among consumers and has enabled the Company to build an extensive national distribution network of established food brokers for the sale of its products to supermarket chains and wholesale clubs (collectively "Supermarkets") and to institutional/food service operations, such as restaurant chains, hotels, country clubs, cruise lines and other bulk purchasers (collectively "Institutional Purchasers")....