Sweet Harvest Marketing Inc

Valley Fig Growers is a cooperative that grows figs, dried figs and dried fruit products for customers throughout the world. It is one of the largest handlers of figs in North America. The cooperative has 30 grower members representing approximately 40 percent of the California fig industry. Its products are marketed under Valley Fig Growers own brand names of Blue Ribbon Orchard Choice, Sun-Maid and Old Orchard. The cooperative was established in 1959 and is located in Fresno, Calif.

Popularized by two widely recognized characters the bonnet-wearing Sun-Maid girl and the singing, dancing California Raisin Sun-Maid Growers of California represents the producers of America s favorite dried fruit. The grower-owned cooperative also manages the marketing and sales of its members raisins, 95 percent of which are produced from Thompson Seedless grapes. Sun-Maid Growers of California was established in 1912 by a small group of California raisin-growers. More than 75 percent of the California raisin crop is now grown within 25 miles of Sun-Maid Growers of California s 130-acre processing facility in Kingsburg, Calif. The cooperative s raisins are distributed throughout North America and are exported to more than 50 other countries.