Sunsweet Growers Inc.

Being all dried up is a good thing at Sunsweet Growers. The more than 400 member/grower-owned cooperative processes and markets dried fruit. Sunsweet produces one-third of the world's prunes (it processes more than 50,000 tons of prunes each year). Its other fruit products include prune and other juices, as well as dried apples, apricots, dates, cranberries, blueberries, mangoes,peaches, pears, pineapples, and more. Sunsweet, which has gotten into dietary supplement beverages, supplies its products toretail food and foodservice outlets worldwide. Sunsweet produces some 40,000 cases of dried fruit productsevery day.The co-op was founded in 1917 as the California Prune and Apricot Growers Association.

Beverage Manufacturing; Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Beverages; Canned, Frozen, and Preserved Fruits, Vegetables, and Food Specialties; Food and Kindred Products; Manufacturing

$244.87M