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Article: Merge, Grow, Compete: New maxim of supermarket chains dictates that fruit packing houses follow suit
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- August 2, 1999
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Bigger is better.
At least that's the view at some Central Washington fruit packing
warehouses trying to adjust to a changing times. As a waves of
mergers and consolidations roll through the supermarket industry,
the survivors can exert increasing pressure on suppliers, including
packing houses.
Fruit packing houses that once shipped a few months out of the
year are being asked to provide supplies year-long.
The demand is for higher volume and greater variety. And small
packing houses have trouble keeping up.
The answer, for some, is merger - bringing together two or more
smaller fruit suppliers into a single, larger, more competitive
operation.
The latest to do so locally is Inland Joseph ...