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Home > Company Index > Food, Beverage & Tobacco > Other Processed & Packaged Goods > Blue Diamond Growers

Blue Diamond Growers
 PROFILE
Blue Diamond Growers is one nutty business. Founded in 1910, it is the world's #1 tree-nut processor and marketer. About 4,000 California almond growers participate in the cooperative, which sells almonds and almond products, hazelnuts, pistachios, and macadamia nuts to food and candy makers, the food service industry, and retailers. Blue Diamond Growers has developed products such as Almond Breeze, an almond-based, lactose-free milk substitute, and special cuts of the nuts. The co-op exports to over 90 countries and can process over 12 million pounds of almonds a day. Blue Diamond Growers purchased the world's largest macadamia nut producer, MacFarms of Hawaii, in 2000.

 COMPETITION
John B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc. (JBSS)
ML Macadamia Orchards, L.P. (NUT)

 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: August
2000 Sales (mil.): 346.20
1-Yr. Sales Growth: (14.4)%
Employees: 1,500
Revenue per employee: $230,800.00

 KEY PEOPLE
• Doug Youngdahl
    CEO
• Lawrence M. Dicke
    CFO

 CONTACT INFO
1802 C St.
Sacramento, CA 95814
US
Phone: 916-442-0771
Fax: 916-329-3335
Online: Web Site

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