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{{Short description| Company based in the state of California, United States}}
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|products = [[Prune]]s, [[dried fruit]]
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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. The company operates the largest [[dried fruit]] plant in the world. <ref name=primary>[http://www.sunsweet.com/about]</ref>
'''Sunsweet Growers Incorporated''' is an American [[agricultural marketing cooperative]] founded in 1917 as the '''California Prune and Apricot Growers Association'''. Sunsweet is headquartered in [[Yuba City, California]], USA. The company operates the largest [[dried fruit]] plant in the world.<ref name=primary>{{cite web |url=http://www.sunsweet.com/about/ |title=Sunsweet &#124; About Sunsweet |website=www.sunsweet.com |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051029042431/http://www.sunsweet.com/about/ |archive-date=29 October 2005 |url-status=dead}}</ref>


==Products==
==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.
Sunsweet manufactures a variety of dried fruit and juice products, although it is best known for prunes. The company produces and distributes prunes, [[prune juice]],<ref>{{cite web | last=Posten | first=Bruce | title=Sunsweet celebrates a major anniversary | website=Reading Eagle | date=May 15, 2017 | url=https://www.readingeagle.com/business-weekly/article/sunsweet-celebrates-a-major-anniversary | access-date=March 15, 2019}}</ref> 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==
== Prune market domination==
The company controls more than two-thirds (2/3) of the prune market worldwide.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.careersinfood.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/ShowResourcesLinkDetails/ResourceLinkID/6699/Sunsweet_Growers_Inc.htm |title=Sunsweet Growers Inc Information from CareersInFood.com |accessdate=2011-11-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930131340/http://www.careersinfood.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/ShowResourcesLinkDetails/ResourceLinkID/6699/Sunsweet_Growers_Inc.htm |archivedate=2011-09-30 }}</ref>


===Worldwide===
===United States===
The company controls more than two-thirds (2/3) of the prune market worldwide.<ref>[http://www.careersinfood.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/ShowResourcesLinkDetails/ResourceLinkID/6699/Sunsweet_Growers_Inc.htm]</ref>

====United States====
Forty thousand (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]].<ref name=primary/>
Forty thousand (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]].<ref name=primary/>
Over half the growers in California belong to Sunsweet.
Over half the growers in California belong to Sunsweet.


====Chile and France====
===Chile and 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 says.<ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-146383587.html]</ref> 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%.<ref>[http://aic.ucdavis.edu/profiles/Prunes-2005.pdf]</ref> These statistics are greatly affected by Sunsweet's production.
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 says.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/places/latin-america-and-caribbean/latin-american-and-caribbean-physical-geography/loa|title=Loa &#124; Encyclopedia.com|website=Encyclopedia.com}}</ref> 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%.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://aic.ucdavis.edu/profiles/Prunes-2005.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=aic.ucdavis.edu |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060904194641/http://aic.ucdavis.edu/profiles/Prunes-2005.pdf |archive-date=4 September 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref> These statistics are greatly affected by Sunsweet's production.


==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Reflist}}


==External links==
==External links==
*{{official website|http://www.sunsweet.com}}
*{{Official website|http://www.sunsweet.com}}


{{Authority control}}


[[Category:Yuba City, California]]
[[Category:Yuba City, California]]
[[Category:Agriculture companies of the United States]]
[[Category:Agricultural cooperatives in the United States]]
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[[Category:Agricultural marketing cooperatives]]
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[[Category:American companies established in 1917]]
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[[Category:Food and drink companies established in 1917]]
[[Category:Food and drink companies established in 1917]]
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Latest revision as of 21:47, 24 December 2023

Sunsweet Growers, Inc.
Company typeagricultural marketing cooperative
Gegründet1917
Hauptsitz
Yuba City, California
,
Vereinigte Staaten
ProduktePrunes, prune juice, dried fruit
Websitewww.sunsweet.com

Sunsweet Growers Incorporated is an American agricultural marketing cooperative founded in 1917 as the California Prune and Apricot Growers Association. Sunsweet is headquartered in Yuba City, California, USA. The company operates the largest dried fruit plant in the world.[1]

Produkte

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Sunsweet manufactures a variety of dried fruit and juice products, although it is best known for prunes. The company produces and distributes prunes, prune juice,[2] 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

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The company controls more than two-thirds (2/3) of the prune market worldwide.[3]

Vereinigte Staaten

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Forty thousand (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.[1] Over half the growers in California belong to Sunsweet.

Chile and France

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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 says.[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.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Sunsweet | About Sunsweet". www.sunsweet.com. Archived from the original on 29 October 2005. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  2. ^ Posten, Bruce (May 15, 2017). "Sunsweet celebrates a major anniversary". Reading Eagle. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
  3. ^ "Sunsweet Growers Inc Information from CareersInFood.com". Archived from the original on 2011-09-30. Retrieved 2011-11-13.
  4. ^ "Loa | Encyclopedia.com". Encyclopedia.com.
  5. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). aic.ucdavis.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 September 2006. Retrieved 14 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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