CALIFORNIA GROWERS, LLC

What CALIFORNIA GROWERS, LLC does

California Growers, LLC is a privately held agricultural company established in 2007 and headquartered at 865 S Frankwood Ave in Reedley, California (Fresno County). The company operates an integrated fruit and vegetable business spanning three core service lines: cultivation at its farm in Reedley, shipping and transportation of fresh produce, and wholesale distribution through merchant wholesaler channels. With approximately 8 employees and no disclosed parent company, subsidiaries, institutional investors, or executive team, California Growers functions as a small, independent operator within California's Central Valley produce economy. It does business under the trade name 'Growers' and serves downstream buyers within California as its sole disclosed operating geography.

The business model combines on-farm production with downstream logistics and wholesale, attempting to capture margin across the grower-shipper value chain rather than specializing in a single stage. Its three documented product offerings — Fruit & Vegetable Growing, Fruit & Vegetable Shipping, and Fresh Produce Wholesale — are interconnected and serve wholesale produce buyers, with no evidence of direct-to-consumer, branded, or specialty positioning. No proprietary technology stack, digital platform, certifications, patents, trademarks, or consumer brands are disclosed; the operation appears to be a conventional commodity produce business reliant on standard agricultural, packing, and shipping practices. No GTM motion, marketing channels, or pricing model is documented.

The company competes in a fragmented Fresno County fresh produce market alongside multiple other growers, packers, and shippers including Brandt Farms, Hamilton Cold Storage, and Reedley Packing and Cooling. No partnerships, alliances, M&A activity, capital raises, regulatory actions, or leadership changes are documented across the available sources. The single public contact is a general phone line at (559) 637-8863, with no named principals and no disclosed customer relationships, revenue, or distribution contracts — limiting the ability of any outside party to underwrite the business on disclosed evidence alone.

Name

CALIFORNIA GROWERS, LLC

Legal name

California Growers, LLC

Website

https://california-growers-llc.hub.biz

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

California Growers, LLC is a privately held, 8-employee fruit and vegetable grower, shipper, and wholesale distributor founded in 2007 and based in Reedley, California, serving wholesale produce buyers within California.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Fresh Produce Wholesale

NAICS

Fruit and Tree Nut Farming (1113), Other Vegetable (except Potato) and Melon Farming (111219)

SIC

Agricultural Production-Crops (100)

akta.pro primary industry

Tropical & Subtropical Fruit Orchards (Avocados, Mangoes, Bananas/Plantains, Pineapples, Papayas) (AFAGACAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Greenhouse Vegetable Production (Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Peppers, Leafy Greens) (AFAGAHAA)

Keywords

• Fresh produce farming
• Fruit vegetable shipping
• Produce wholesale
• Agricultural growing
• Fresh fruit distribution

Headquarters

HQ city

Reedley

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure

Core offering

California Growers, LLC cultivates and produces fresh fruits and vegetables at its farm in Reedley, California (Fresno County), and ships the harvested produce through its own shipping operations and wholesale distribution channels. The business operates as an integrated grower-shipper-merchant wholesaler of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Product overview

California Growers, LLC is a fruit and vegetable growing and shipping company established in 2007. The company operates as a single unified agricultural business offering produce cultivation, shipping, and wholesale distribution services. Their product portfolio consists of three interconnected service offerings: Fruit & Vegetable Growing (production), Fruit & Vegetable Shipping (logistics), and Fresh Produce Wholesale (distribution).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fruit & Vegetable Growing Cultivation and production of fresh fruits and vegetables at the company's farm in Reedley, CA. Output is sold via in-house shipping and wholesale operations to produce buyers.
• Fruit & Vegetable Shipping Shipping and transportation services for fresh produce, including fruit shipping and vegetable shipping, moving harvested produce from the Reedley farm to wholesale buyers.
• Fresh Produce Wholesale Wholesale distribution of fresh fruits and vegetables through merchant wholesaler channels, supplying fresh produce to buyers in the market.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves1 record

Broad incumbents

• Grimmway Farms: Grimmway Farms is one of the largest vertically integrated vegetable grower-shippers in California (carrots, organic produce), based in Bakersfield. Comparable grower-shipper-wholesaler model at much larger scale, operating in the same Central Valley ecosystem.
• Driscoll's: Driscoll's is the dominant California-based berry grower-shipper with vertically integrated growing, cooling, and distribution. Operates the same grower-to-buyer model as California Growers but specialized in berries at national scale.
• The Wonderful Company: Wonderful Company (parent of Wonderful Pistachios, POM Wonderful, Wonderful Halos mandarins) is a major vertically integrated California grower-shipper headquartered in Los Angeles. Comparable model across multiple specialty crop categories grown in the Central Valley.
• Bolthouse Farms:

Direct peers

• Reedley Packing and Cooling: Also based in Reedley, Reedley Packing and Cooling provides fruit packing, cold storage, and shipping — overlapping with California Growers' shipping and wholesale service offering to the same regional buyer base.
• Brandt Farms Inc: Brandt Farms is a Reedley-based fruit and vegetable grower operating just down the road at 6040 Avenue 430. Same geography, same crop mix, same customer base — the most directly comparable local peer.
• Hamilton Cold Storage: Hamilton Cold Storage in Reedley operates cold storage and shipping for fresh produce in the same local market. Directly comparable as a Reedley-area produce handler serving the same Central Valley customer base.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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