  
Graceland Fruit and Milne Fruit Products Partner To Produce and Market Juice Concentrates
Frankfort, MI & Prosser, WA - Graceland Fruit, Inc. and Milne Fruit Products, Inc. are partnering in the production and sales of fruit juices as Graceland Fruit continues expanding its product line of industrial food ingredients. Milne Fruit Products will serve as the exclusive sales and marketing agent of Graceland’s cranberry juice and other new juice concentrate products as they become available.
Milne Fruit Products transferred to Graceland Fruit its expertise and technology in manufacturing various high quality fruit juices. Milne Fruit Products has an excellent reputation in the marketplace for quality juices and purees and is looking forward to joining forces with Graceland Fruit to offer expanded lines of quality Fruit Ingredients.
“This is a natural partnership; we are merging Milne’s technology and sales & marketing capabilities with Graceland’s natural fruits into a new source for juice concentrates,” Don Nugent, Graceland’s president and chief executive officer, explained.
As part of a major expansion program, Graceland Fruit is enlarging its plant and is invested in new concentrate technologies provided by Milne. The new system will begin production in November and be at full capacity by the end of the year.
The new fruit concentrate products are expected to add revenue to Graceland Fruit in the first year of production. This new revenue stream is expected to continue growing as new fruit varieties are added to the Dried and juice product lines.
The two companies have both emerged as leaders in their respective fields. Milne Fruit Products, Inc., formerly owned by Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc., is now owned and operated by Wyckoff Farms, Inc. (WFI), a grower and processor of various fruit ingredient products. Based in Washington state, Milne Fruit Products converts fruit into 100% natural and pure fruit ingredients such as fruit juices, fruit purees, custom blends, premixes, and other related nutritional ingredients for both domestic and international markets.
Founded in 1973, Graceland Fruit produces infused dried and Soft-N-Frozen® fruit ingredients and recently introduced a full line of infused dried vegetables and a new vegetable product line that lasts up to three months in a refrigerated case, Fridg-N-Fresh®. Graceland and Nugent have earned a wide range of honors including the prestigious Edward R. Madigan U.S. Agricultural Export Excellence Award and the Master Entrepreneur Of The Year Award by Ernst & Young.
For more information, please visit www.gracelandfruit.com
or contact Suzi Mills via email at smills@gracelandfruit.com
or by calling 231-352-7181.
|
