JR Produce Supply

What JR Produce Supply does

JR Produce Supply is a privately held, family-operated manufacturer of produce packaging, founded in 1979 and headquartered at 620 East Chapin Street, Edinburg, Texas. The company manufactures and customizes a portfolio of physical packaging products — cartons (with optional wax-coating), mesh bags (engineered for airflow on root vegetables and cabbage), wicketed plastic bags (for citrus and limes), clamshells (for berries and cherry tomatoes), storage bins (for watermelons and large produce), and custom labels — sold directly to produce growers and packers under a Primus Certified sustainable packaging umbrella. The firm employs between 11 and 50 people and serves primarily the Rio Grande Valley and broader Texas produce industry, with no disclosed parent, subsidiaries, or institutional investors.

The business model is straightforward hardware sales with a light professional-services overlay: customers request a quote via phone, email, or a website contact form, and JR Produce designs, manufactures, and delivers packaging with optional custom label printing. Pricing is not publicly listed; the company competes on "competitive pricing," "low packaging rates," and "speedy delivery," with mesh bags and cartons positioned as the lower-priced tiers. All manufacturing occurs at the single Edinburg facility, and go-to-market is sales-led and relationship-driven — there is no self-serve, marketplace, e-commerce, or third-party reseller channel evident.

Operationally, JR Produce leans on the Fasano family (founder John Fasano, honored in 2016 by TIPA with the Scott Toothaker Award, and CEO Rocco Fasano) and a small expert team covering customer support, management, and a resident scientist, suggesting in-house materials know-how. There are no disclosed funding rounds, M&A activity, digital platform, AI capabilities, or API/SDK offerings, consistent with a closely held regional industrial supplier rather than a technology-enabled business.

Name

JR Produce Supply

Legal name

JR Produce Supply

Website

https://jrproducesupply.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1979

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

JR Produce Supply is a family-operated, Edinburg, Texas-based manufacturer founded in 1979 that custom-produces Primus Certified cartons, mesh bags, wicketed bags, clamshells, bins, and labels for produce growers and packers across the Rio Grande Valley and Texas.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Produce Packaging Manufacturing

NAICS

Fruit and Vegetable Preserving and Specialty Food Manufacturing (3114), Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Merchant Wholesalers (424480), Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Merchant Wholesalers (42448)

SIC

Canned, Frozen & Preservd Fruit, Veg & Food Specialties (2030), Food And Kindred Products (2000), Wholesale-Groceries & Related Products (5140)

akta.pro primary industry

Fresh Produce Packaging (IMALAHAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Dry Foods & Staples Packaging (Cereals, Pasta, Rice) (IMALAHAJ)

Keywords

• Produce packaging supplies
• Fresh produce cartons
• Mesh produce bags
• Clamshell packaging
• Sustainable produce packaging

Headquarters

HQ city

Edinburg

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Produce Packaging Sales: Core revenue from one-time/recurring sales of physical packaging products (cartons, mesh bags, wicketed bags, clamshells, bins, labels) sold directly to produce growers and packers. Pricing is quote-based rather than publicly listed.
2. Custom Label Printing Services: Custom label design and printing services bundled with packaging sales, allowing customers to differentiate their produce on retail shelves.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Core offering

JR Produce Supply manufactures and sells physical produce packaging products — cartons, mesh bags, wicketed bags, clamshells, bins, and custom labels — directly to produce growers and packers in the Rio Grande Valley and South Texas. Offerings are customizable from material design to delivery, with Primus Certified sustainable options and optional wax-coating reinforcement, sold via quote-based direct sales rather than listed pricing.

Product overview

JR Produce Supply operates as a single, focused produce packaging supplier (not a platform-plus-modules architecture) offering a unified portfolio of customizable packaging products — Cartons, Mesh Bags, Wicketed Bags, Clamshells, Bins, and Labels — along with Sustainable Produce Packaging (Primus Certified) that wraps those SKUs in environmentally conscious options. All offerings are sold together to Rio Grande Valley and South Texas growers under one consistent service model emphasizing competitive pricing, speedy delivery, and hands-on packaging expertise.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cartons

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Placon: Custom thermoformed plastic packaging manufacturer serving the fresh produce and food retail markets, competing in clamshells, containers, and similar SKUs that overlap with JR Produce Supply's portfolio.
• Inline Plastics: Manufactures plastic clamshell and rigid food packaging, with a significant share of SKUs designed for fresh produce such as berries, cherry tomatoes, and other fragile items — overlapping directly with JR Produce Supply's clamshell line.
• Anchor Packaging: Specialty food packaging producer with strong produce segment exposure (clamshells, containers, microwave/CPET trays), competing for the same grocer-direct and produce-packer accounts JR Produce Supply serves.
• Sabert Corporation: Food packaging manufacturer offering clamshells, cartons, and sustainable containers for produce and prepared foods — a comparable mid-sized specialty producer targeting the same fresh-produce customer base.

Broad incumbents

• Pactiv Evergreen: Large-scale food and beverage packaging manufacturer with broad produce offerings (cartons, clamshells, containers); competes on price and logistics scale that JR Produce Supply cannot match, but overlaps on the produce-grower customer profile.
• Amcor: Global packaging giant with significant fresh produce and agricultural flexible-packaging offerings, including sustainable packaging lines — a relevant benchmark for the sustainability positioning JR Produce Supply is building toward.
• Graphic Packaging: Paperboard and carton-based packaging manufacturer serving fresh produce and food customers; competes in the carton portion of JR Produce Supply's portfolio at substantially larger scale.
• Berry Global: Large plastic packaging manufacturer with food and produce exposure, providing scale-based price competition across cartons, bags, and clamshell categories where JR Produce Supply competes.
• Sealed Air: Food-protection and produce packaging company (Cryovac, etc.) offering protective and shelf-life-extending packaging used across the produce supply chain; relevant incumbent competing for the same grocer and packer relationships.
• Sonoco Products: Diversified global packaging manufacturer with rigid paper-based containers and produce-adjacent product lines; relevant as a larger competitor capable of absorbing national produce-packer accounts that are out of JR Produce Supply's reach.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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