producer

noun

1. An individual or organization that creates goods and services.

   “But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.”

2. One who produces an artistic production, such as an album, a theater production, a film, a TV program, a video game, and so on.
3. An organism that produces complex organic compounds from simple molecules and an external source of energy.
4. (Ireland, UK, slang)An arrest for speeding after which the driver is allowed seven (in the UK) or ten (in Ireland) days to produce his/her driving licence and related documents at a police station.
5. (archaic)A furnace for producing combustible gas for fuel.