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Sunsweet Growers Incorporated is an agricultural marketing cooperative founded in 1917 as the California Prune and Apricot Growers Association. Sunsweet is headquartered in Yuba City, California, USA where, as of 2007, the company operated the largest dried fruit plant in the world. [1] A farm co-op or agricultural marketing cooperative is a cooperative business owned by farmers, to produce or (usually) store and market agricultural products. ...
Town Square located in downtown Yuba City. ...
2007 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Dried fruit is fruit that has been dried, either naturally or through use of a machine, such as a dehydrator. ...
Products
Sunsweet manufactures a variety of dried fruit and juice products, although it is best known for prunes. The company produces and distributes prunes, cranberries, apricots, nectarines, pineapples, mangoes and dates. Other recent Sunsweet products include Ones (individually-wrapped prunes), Jumbo Red Raisins (from large red flame Chilean grapes), PlumSweets (chocolate-covered prunes), PlumSmart plum juice, and Specialty mangoes, blueberries, cherries, and berry blends.
Prune Market Domination
USA 40,000 cases of fruit are marked and sealed for distribution daily at the factory headquarters while its juice products are bottled in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania.[2] Over Half the growers in California belong to Sunsweet. Fleetwood is a borough located in Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA. As of the 2000 census, the borough had a total population of 4,018. ...
Worldwide The company controls more than two-thirds(2/3) of the prune market worldwide.[3]
Chile & France In Santa Cruz, Chile, in 2004 after the two consecutive years of crop disaster in California, Sunsweet completed a prune drying facility where it made plans to grow and process the dried fruit in an attempt to avert any future disaster.[4] The entire U.S. exports about 48% of prunes worldwide while the two major competitors, Chile produces 13% (partially due to the Sunsweet facility and growing) and France only about 12%.[5] These statistics are greatly affected by Sunsweet's production. Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 770 miles (1,240 km) - % water 4. ...
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