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Ingredients Operations
FruitSmart, Inc.
• We completed our acquisition of FruitSmart in early January 2020. FruitSmart is a specialty fruit and vegetable
ingredient processor, serving global markets
• Founded in 1982, FruitSmart supplies a broad set of juices, concentrates, pomaces, purees, fibers, seed and seed.
powders, and other value-added products to food, beverage, and flavor companies throughout the United
States and internationally through value-added processing of various fruit and vegetable products
• FruitSmart processes apples, grapes, blueberries, raspberries, cherries, blackberries, pears, cranberries and
strawberries as well as other fruits and vegetables
• FruitSmart is headquartered in the Yakima Valley of the state of Washington, where it has approximately 200
employees and two manufacturing facilities
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FruitSmart is well-positioned to capitalize on recent shifts in market dynamics and consumer behavior including a
secular shift towards health and wellness
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- Demand for clean-label ingredients
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Rise of fruit as a natural label sweetener alternative to processed sugar
Growing consumer interest in better-for-you premium ingredients
FruitSmart primarily sources and supplies within the continental United States
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