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Sunsweet Growers

Logo: sunsweet.com4

Company based in the state of California, United States

Sunsweet Growers Incorporated is an American agricultural marketing cooperative founded in 1917 as the California Prune and Apricot Growers Association. Sunsweet is headquartered in Yuba City, California, USA. The company operates the largest dried fruit plant in the world.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1917Founded1
  • HeadquartersYuba City1
  • Founded inYuba City1
  • Websitewww.sunsweet.com
  • Legal formcorporation1
  • LEI8L1YM2MNLFFCT2FXSB383
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusLapsed (not renewed)3
  • Registered addressC/O Mark Leonard, 95993 Yuba City, United States3
  • Registered withSecretary of State, C00987973

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Sunsweet Growers Incorporated is an American agricultural marketing cooperative founded in 1917 as the California Prune and Apricot Growers Association. Sunsweet is headquartered in Yuba City, California, USA. The company operates the largest dried fruit plant in the world.2

Leadership

Who has led Sunsweet Growers, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Board members and other officers (1)

Products and brands

  • prune

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Products

Sunsweet manufactures a variety of dried fruit and juice products, although it is best known for prunes. The company produces and distributes prunes, prune juice, cranberries, apricots, nectarines, pineapples, mangoes and dates. Other recent Sunsweet products include Ones (individually wrapped prunes), Jumbo Red Raisins (from large red flame Chilean grapes), PlumSweets (chocolate-covered prunes), PlumSmart plum juice, and Specialty mangoes, blueberries, cherries, and berry blends.

Prune market domination

The company controls more than two-thirds (2/3) of the prune market worldwide.

United States

Forty thousand (40,000) cases of fruit are marked and sealed for distribution daily at the factory headquarters while its juice products are bottled in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania.

Over half the growers in California belong to Sunsweet.

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Chile and France

In Santa Cruz, Chile, in 2004 after the two consecutive years of crop disaster in California, Sunsweet completed a prune drying facility where it made plans to grow and process the dried fruit in an attempt to avert any future disaster says. The entire U.S. exports about 48% of prunes worldwide while the two major competitors, Chile produces 13% (partially due to the Sunsweet facility and growing) and France only about 12%. These statistics are greatly affected by Sunsweet's production.

From Wikipedia’s article on Sunsweet Growers, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Timeline

  1. 1917Founded Founded in Yuba City1

Funding

Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.

Money received by year$48.1M 2008–2026
Money received by yearMoney received by year, 2008–2026: $48.1M in all. Federal grants $2.6M; Federal contracts $45.5M.$0$5M$10M$15M2008 · Federal grants: $287.9K2008 · Federal contracts: $59.2K20082009 · Federal contracts: $219.0K2010 · Federal grants: $300.0K2010 · Federal contracts: $7.4M20102011 · Federal contracts: $1.3M2012 · Federal grants: $300.0K20122013 · Federal contracts: $266.6K2014 · Federal grants: $200.0K20142015 · Federal grants: $250.0K20162018 · Federal contracts: $11.7M20182019 · Federal contracts: $4.3M2020 · Federal grants: $250.0K2020 · Federal contracts: $3.2M20202021 · Federal contracts: $7.0M2022 · Federal grants: $250.0K2022 · Federal contracts: $516.3K20222023 · Federal grants: $250.0K2024 · Federal grants: $250.0K2024 · Federal contracts: $517.2K20242025 · Federal grants: $250.0K2025 · Federal contracts: $8.7M2026 · Federal contracts: $189.5K2026
Without federal contracts$2.6M 2008–2025
Without federal contractsWithout federal contracts, 2008–2025: $2.6M in all. Federal grants $2.6M.$0$100K$200K$300K2008 · Federal grants: $287.9K20082010 · Federal grants: $300.0K20102012 · Federal grants: $300.0K20122014 · Federal grants: $200.0K20142015 · Federal grants: $250.0K201620182020 · Federal grants: $250.0K20202022 · Federal grants: $250.0K20222023 · Federal grants: $250.0K2024 · Federal grants: $250.0K20242025 · Federal grants: $250.0K2025
Figures by year
YearFederal grantsFederal contractsTotal
2026–$189.5K$189.5K
2025$250.0K$8.7M$9.0M
2024$250.0K$517.2K$767.2K
2023$250.0K–$250.0K
2022$250.0K$516.3K$766.3K
2021–$7.0M$7.0M
2020$250.0K$3.2M$3.5M
2019–$4.3M$4.3M
2018–$11.7M$11.7M
2015$250.0K–$250.0K
2014$200.0K–$200.0K
2013–$266.6K$266.6K
2012$300.0K–$300.0K
2011–$1.3M$1.3M
2010$300.0K$7.4M$7.7M
2009–$219.0K$219.0K
2008$287.9K$59.2K$347.2K

Federal awards

Obligated amounts from USAspending.gov6, by calendar year, 2008–2026, for its registration. Obligations are what agencies committed, not always what was paid out. Contracts pay for goods and services; grants, loans and direct payments are assistance. Loans are charted at the face value of the loans listed here. An award’s amount below is its lifetime total, and some began before the years charted.

Largest grants

  1. Sep 9, 2008$300.0K from Rural Business Cooperative Service: Rural Cooperative Development Grants7 To SUNSWEET GROWERS INC Award 5274735509147491
  2. May 24, 2012$300.0K from Rural Business Cooperative Service: Rural Cooperative Development Grants8 To SUNSWEET GROWERS INC Award BP1136983
  3. Aug 20, 2010$300.0K from Rural Business Cooperative Service: Rural Cooperative Development Grants9 To SUNSWEET GROWERS INC Award BP852701
  4. Sep 25, 2007$287.9K from Rural Business Cooperative Service: Rural Cooperative Development Grants10 To SUNSWEET GROWERS INC Award 9715593112141681
  5. Sep 28, 2015$250.0K from Rural Business Cooperative Service: Value-Added Producer Grants11 To SUNSWEET GROWERS INC Award BP1714148
  6. Sep 3, 2025$250.0K from Rural Business Cooperative Service: Farmers Market And Local Food Promotion Program12 To SUNSWEET GROWERS INC Award CLSS00000116879
  7. Sep 1, 2020$250.0K from Rural Business Cooperative Service: Value-Added Producer Grants13 To SUNSWEET GROWERS INC Award GLSX0002413863
  8. Sep 20, 2022$250.0K from Rural Business Cooperative Service: Value-Added Producer Grants14 To SUNSWEET GROWERS INC Award GLSX0002670899

Largest contracts

  1. Jul 2, 2018$9.2M from Agricultural Marketing Service: 2000005426/4100015206/plums pitted dried pkg-24/1 lb15 To SUNSWEET GROWERS INC Award 123J1418C1486
  2. May 12, 2025$8.7M from Agricultural Marketing Service: Commodities for usg food donations: 2000010771/4100032177/plums pitted dried pkg-24/1 lb16 To SUNSWEET GROWERS INC Award 123J1425C1170
  3. Jul 9, 2010$6.7M from Agricultural Marketing Service: Fruits,dried17 To SUNSWEET GROWERS INC Award AG3J16120205673
  4. Mar 17, 2021$4.6M from Agricultural Marketing Service: 2000007607/4100022799/plums pitted dried pkg-24/1 lb18 To SUNSWEET GROWERS INC Award 123J1421C1121
  5. May 14, 2019$3.9M from Agricultural Marketing Service: 2000006083/4100017330/plums pitted dried pkg-24/1 lb19 To SUNSWEET GROWERS INC Award 123J1419C1566

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