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FOOD & BEVERAGE FACILITIES CHOOSE ROOFS FROM SIKA Many of America’s best-known food and beverage facilities rely on Thermoplastic Roofing and Waterproofing Systems from Sika. Below is a partial list from around the country. Manufacturing and Processing Old Neighborhood Foods Retail Outlets & Supermarkets Pepperidge Farm Basic American Foods Albertsons Supermarkets Pillsbury Company Cains Food Aldi Pinnacle Foods, Inc. Campbell Soup Company Brookshire Grocery Company Quaker Oats Company Cargill, Inc. Giant Food Stores Ralston Foods Chandler Foods Inc. H-E-B Russell Stover Candies Church & Dwight Company Kroger Co. Sara Lee/ Hillshire Brands Citterio USA Corporation Publix Super Markets Sweet Candy Company Dannon Company, Inc. Safeway Inc. The J.M. Smucker Company Dean Foods Sam’s Club Trilliant Food and Nutrition Del Monte Foods, Inc. Save A Lot Food Stores Tropical Foods Domino Sugar Sheetz, Inc Windsor Foods Eagle Foods Western Beef Wrigley Company Freedom Foods Stew Leonard’s Frito-Lay, Inc. Beverage Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. General Mills, Inc. The Honey Baked Ham Co. Anheuser Busch InBev Hormel Foods Tom Thumb Bacardi Ltd. Hostess Brands Trader Joe’s D. G. Yuengling & Son Huy Fong Foods Whole Foods Market Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Keebler Company WinCo Foods E & J Gallo Winery Kellogg’s Winn Dixie Stores Nestle Waters Koch Foods Big Y Foods, Inc Ocean Spray Kraft Foods Group, Inc. Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company Kraft Heinz Company PepsiCo, Inc. Nestle Purina Petcare Nestle USA Northland Foods FOOD & BEVERAGE FACILITIES CHOOSE ROOFS FROM SIKA Many of America’s best-known food and beverage facilities rely on Thermoplastic Roofing and Waterproofing Systems from Sika. Below is a partial list from around the country. Restaurants and Food Service Au Bon Pain Bone Fish Grill Burger King California Pizza Kitchen Cheesecake Factory Chick-fil-A Chili’s Grill & Bar Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. Dairy Queen Dunkin Donuts Dutch Bros. Coffee Einstein Bros Bagels IHOP McDonald’s Outback Steakhouse Warehouse Distribution and Meat and Poultry Processing Storage Papa John’s Pizza Culver Farms Panda Express Aldi Distribution JBS USA Panera Bread Company Associated Foods/ASG Jones Dairy Farm Pizza Hut C & S Wholesale Grocers, Inc Knauss Foods Qdoba Mexican Eats Express Cold Storage National Beef Packing Red Robin Schlotzsky’s McLane Company Company Starbucks Corp. Richmond Cold Storage Perdue Farms Subway Springbrook Distribution Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. Taco Bell Super Store Industries Western Beef The Cheesecake Factory Sysco Freshpoint Wendy’s Zero Mountain Cold Storage Growers and Dairy Facilities Packaging Agrana Fruit Blue Diamond Growers Abbott Nutrition Borden Milk Anchor Glass Container Corp. Cabot Creamery Allen Flavors, Inc Garelick Farms Ball Container LLC Schreiber Foods Inc. Dart Container Corp. Sun-Maid Growers Flexpak Metal Container Corp. Solo Cup Co. Sika Corporation - Roofing Tel: 800-451-2504 usa.sika.sarnafil.com.

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