Pride of San Juan Boosts Production with New Yuma Plant

San Juan Bautista - October 29, 1998 This year, when Pride of San Juan (POSJ) moves its operation to Arizona for the winter growing season, they'll set up shop in a new 18,000 square foot state-of-the-art processing and cooling plant in Yuma. The plant is scheduled to go on line November 15 with production to begin the day after Thanksgiving.

"The requests for our specialty products are so great," says Stephen Wyrick, POSJ's Chief Executive Officer, "that we've had to grow by leaps and bounds in an effort to keep up with demand." In addition to the new Yuma plant, POSJ has increased production of their edible herbs and flowers with plantings the new Yuma plant.

Pride of San Juan, a leading specialty lettuce grower/packer/shipper is one of the fastest growing specialty lettuce, herb and edible flower businesses in operation in California and Arizona.

The company carved a niche for itself with the value-added food service markets by producing quality specialty lettuce as well as edible herbs and flowers and specialty vegetable such as radicchio and bell peppers. Recently, the company successfully ventured into the retail marketplace with the sale of 1-pound spring mix and 1 1/2-pound baby spinach bags to club stores.

Still on tap for this fast-growing company is the addition of 20,000 square feet to its existing San Juan Bautista plant, which triples the size of the company's processing and cooling capabilities.

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