Pacific Trellis Fruit expands grape footprint
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Pacific Trellis Fruit has become a full-year supplier of grapes, says Howard Nager, director of marketing and business development for the Los Angeles-based company and its Dulcinea brand.
At the 2023 Associated Wholesale Grocers Innovation Showcase, Nager highlighted the company’s concord-style fresh table grape branded Jam Grapes.
“We are actually doing a web blast with AWG for these [this week],” he said. The grapes are grown in Brazil, Peru and Chile.
Nager said Pacific Trellis Fruit has been expanding its grape footprint.
“We are we are pretty much a full-year grape supplier,” he said, noting imports from Spain, Brazil, Peru, Chile and Mexico and domestic supply from California.
“We will have very good organic volume out of Mexico, and that will flow into the California deal,” Nager said.
The marketer is bringing watermelons from Mexico in late March, and the watermelon deal in Yuma is around the corner, he said.
Nager also was promoting the marketer’s specialty plum line. Packed in clamshells that guarantee correct rings at checkout, the plum flavors offered by the marketer include extra sweet red plum, sugar plum and lemon plum and a new-to-the-market watermelon plum that is green on the outside and cuts red inside, he said.
