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ByChloe Sorvino,

Forbes Staff.

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henever someone offers to acquire Rich Products—Buffalo, New York’s $5.8 billion (annual sales) food giant that you’ve probably never heard of—its senior chairman and son of the founder, Bob Rich Jr., has a form letter ready for his assistant to send back.