A fourth-generation family business founded in 1937, William H. Kopke Jr., Inc. has built its identity around long-standing relationships with growers and a family-led approach to the fresh-produce trade. Kopke imports and distributes fruit for customers across North America and Asia, with vertically integrated logistics that help carry produce from farms to market.
Caruso USACaruso USA is a fourth-generation family business founded in Cincinnati in 1932, with nearly a century of roots in the fresh-food trade. Today, it helps companies across the country serve fresh food through value-added produce and temperature-controlled delivery, while preserving the family-first character that has shaped the business.CINCINNATI, OH
Pete Pappas & Sons IncSince 1942, fourth-generation family business Pete Pappas & Sons has grown from a tomato repacking operation into a vertically integrated grower, packer, shipper and distributor of fresh produce. Its Smoky Mountain Family Farms operation adds field-grown Tennessee tomatoes to a business rooted in the Washington-Baltimore produce trade, while its Jessup facility serves grocery and foodservice customers throughout the Eastern Seaboard. The company pairs that multigenerational produce heritage with USDA Organic certification, a 100% GFSI rating and documented waste-reduction work.JESSUP, MD
Gourmet Trading CompanyFounded 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.REDONDO BEACH, CA
United Apple SalesUnited Apple Sales is a fourth-generation family produce company that began with a Western New York orchard in 1905. Today, it is known for extending that local agricultural tradition into a year-round supply program for retail, wholesale, and processing customers, supported by grower relationships in the United States and overseas.LYNDONVILLE, NY