cooperative founded 1917 headquarters yuba city california united states products prunes dried fruit website www.sunsweet.com sunsweet growers incorporated is an agricultural marketing cooperative founded in 1917 as the california prune and apricot growers association . sunsweet is headquartered in yuba city california usa . the company operates the largest dried fruit plant in the world . 1 contents 1 products 2 prune market domination 2.1 usa 2.2 worldwide 2.3 chile & france 3 references 4 external links products edit sunsweet manufactures a variety of dried fruit and juice products although it is best known for prunes . the company produces and distributes prunes cranberries apricots nectarines pineapples mangoes and dates . other recent sunsweet products include ones individually wrapped prunes jumbo red raisins from large red flame chilean grapes plumsweets chocolate covered prunes plumsmart plum juice and specialty mangoes blueberries cherries and berry blends . prune market domination edit usa edit forty thousand 40 000 cases of fruit are marked and sealed for distribution daily at the factory headquarters while its juice products are bottled in fleetwood pennsylvania . 1 over half the growers in california belong to sunsweet . worldwide edit the company controls more than two thirds 2 3 of the prune market worldwide . 2 chile & france edit in santa cruz chile in 2004 after the two consecutive years of crop disaster in california sunsweet completed a prune drying facility where it made plans to grow and process the dried fruit in an attempt to avert any future disaster says . 3 the entire u.s. exports about 48 % of prunes worldwide while the two major competitors chile produces 13 % partially due to the sunsweet facility and growing and france only about 12 % . 4 these statistics are greatly affected by sunsweet s production . references edit a b 1 2 3 4 external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sunsweet growers & oldid 742148668 categories yuba city californiaagriculture companies of the united statesagricultural marketing cooperativesagriculture in californiacompanies based in sutter county californiaamerican companies established in 1917food and drink companies established in 1917 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages italiano edit links this page was last modified on 2 october 2016 at 00 17 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view