Blue Diamond Growers Explained
| Blue Diamond Growers |
| Type: | Agricultural marketing cooperative |
| Foundation: | (as California Almond Growers' Exchange) |
| Location City: | Calpak Plant No. 11, Sacramento, California |
| Location Country: | U.S. |
| Key People: | Kai Bockmann (CEO)[1] |
| Num Employees: | 1,800[2] |
Blue Diamond Growers is an agricultural cooperative and marketing organization that specializes in California almonds. Founded in 1910 as the California Almond Growers' Exchange, the organization claims to be the world's largest tree nut processing and marketing company. It serves 3,500 almond growers, and helps make the almond crop (valued at over $1 billion) California's largest food export.
The company produces almonds and almond-derived products in various forms, including roasted almonds, almond milk, and crackers.[3] The cooperative is privately held and in 2021, the company reported annual revenue of $1.59 billion dollars.[4]
The organization is headquartered in Sacramento, California, with two other manufacturing plants in Salida, California and Turlock, California.[5] From 2004 to 2008, it resisted attempts by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union to organize workers at its processing plant. Blue Diamond was found by the National Labor Relations Board to have violated a federal labor law in its campaign against the union.[6] In November 2008, however, the union lost an NLRB-supervised vote to establish a branch.[7]
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Notes and References
- News: Anderson . Mark . January 23, 2023 . Agriculture Executive to Watch: Kai Bockmann . . March 14, 2023 . Kai Bockmann will take over as the new CEO of almond giant Blue Diamond Growers on Jan. 17. .
- News: Holland . John . December 2, 2020 . Blue Diamond reports $1.59 billion in revenue. Almond milk from Turlock is a hit . . March 14, 2023 . Blue Diamond employs about 1,800 people at plants in Sacramento, Salida and Turlock, up about 100 from a year ago. .
- News: Holland . John . December 2, 2020 . Blue Diamond reports $1.59 billion in revenue. Almond milk from Turlock is a hit . . March 14, 2023 . The Sacramento plant does all of the snack nuts under the Blue Diamond brand, along with Nut-Thins crackers for people avoiding gluten…The Washington Road plant in June added Almond Breeze milk to its slicing, dicing, blanching and almond flour production..
- News: Blue Diamond Growers . . March 14, 2023 . Blue Diamond Growers; Revenue: $1.6B .
- News: Holland . John . December 2, 2020 . Blue Diamond reports $1.59 billion in revenue. Almond milk from Turlock is a hit . . March 14, 2023 . This was the 110th annual meeting for the company, launched in Sacramento in 1910. Plants followed in Salida in 1968 and Turlock in 2013..
- Web site: Lamb. Celia. Blue Diamond Growers won't appeal NLRB decision. Sacramento Business Journal. March 10, 2015. April 18, 2006.
- Web site: Doyle. Michael. September 21, 2009. Judge rejects union's challenge to Blue Diamond election. February 18, 2021. McClatchy.
