Eastern marketing cooperative

George Lamont identified the East Coast marketing cooperative known as Premier Apple Cooperative, Inc., as a key to helping the industry survive in an era when profit margins are slim to none. The cooperative, formed in 2000, represents all the major shippers in the East-or about 75 percent of the apple volume, according to Lamont who serves as executive director of the New York State Horticultural Society. Premier was founded near the same time that growers in the Pacific Northwest were creating the Washington Apple Growers Marketing Association. The marketing cooperative, which has membership in ten states, holds biweekly conference […]