Gourmet Trading Company

Employee Size

2-10

Headquarters

Redondo Beach, CA

Founded in 1982 as a family business, Gourmet Trading Company grows and distributes fresh blueberries and asparagus year-round through its own farms and grower partnerships. The vertically integrated company manages produce from the field through packing and distribution, with a 70-hectare blueberry farm in California and operations spanning the Americas and beyond. It was also the first company to commercially import Peruvian blueberries into the United States.

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