Calavo Growers

Calavo Growers, Inc. engages in the marketing and distribution of avocados, prepared avocado products, and other perishable foods. The company is headquartered in Santa Paula, California and currently employs 1,969 full-time employees. The firm is engaged in marketing and distributing avocados and prepared avocados to retail grocery, foodservice, club stores, mass merchandisers, food distributors and wholesalers on a worldwide basis. The company procures avocados from California, Mexico and other growing regions around the world. Through its various operating facilities, it sorts, packs, and/or ripens avocados, tomatoes and/or Hawaiian grown papayas, and processes and packages guacamole. The company operates in two business segments: Grown and Prepared. Its Grown segment consists of fresh avocados, tomatoes and papayas. Its Prepared segment comprises all its guacamole products sold at retail and food service as well as avocado pulp sold to foodservice. Its products are sold under the Calavo family of branded labels, as well as private labels. The company distributes its products both domestically and internationally.