Sunsweet

Sunsweet is the world's largest handler of dried tree fruits: dried plums, apricots, peaches, pears and apples.

This grower-owned marketing cooperative was founded in 1917 as the California Prune and Apricot Growers Association to market the crops of its members at better prices than were offered by speculative buyers.

Sunsweet was established as the new co-op's brand name and later adopted as the organization's corporate name.

Sunsweet now processes and markets the dried fruit production of some 650 grower-members with orchard holdings principally in California's Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. Sunsweet growers produce one-third of the world's dried plums.