Sun-Maid
Sign in to saveSun-Maid Growers of California is an American farmer-owned cooperative of raisin growers headquartered in Fresno, California. Sun-Maid is one of the largest raisin and dried fruit processors in the world. As a cooperative, Sun-Maid is made up of approximately 850 family farmers who grow raisin grapes within a radius of the processing plant. Sun-Maid also sources dried fruit beyond this geographical area.
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It is catalogued under topics including 1912 establishments in California, Agricultural cooperatives in the United States and Agricultural marketing cooperatives.
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- Instance of
- business
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- Kingsburg
- Image
- Original Sun-Maid painting.png
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- Commons category
- Sun-Maid
- inception
- 1912-00-00
- product or material produced
- raisin
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Sun-Diamond Growers
- Sun-Maid Girl
- Evolution of the brand
- References
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Sun-Maid Growers of California is an American farmer-owned cooperative of raisin growers headquartered in Fresno, California. Sun-Maid is one of the largest raisin and dried fruit processors in the world. As a cooperative, Sun-Maid is made up of approximately 850 family farmers who grow raisin grapes within a radius of the processing plant. Sun-Maid also sources dried fruit beyond this geographical area.
Sun-Maid produces more than 200 million pounds (90 million kilograms) of raisins per year. The raisins are grown in the Central Valley of California and then packed for consumer sales or sold as ingredients to other companies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sun-Maid” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.