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  • February 1st 2009 Issue
  • Juice maker touts local, natural

    A family business differentiates itself from the large juice manufacturers.

    Squeezing into the competitive juice market has meant playing a background role for a low-profile British Columbia orchardist with a growing processing business. Markus Keller of Keremeos, in British Columbia’s Similkameen Valley, Canada, produces 500,000 liters of juice a year that’s sold under its own name, Worrenberg Farms, as well as a host of private labels. One of the newest additions is the Valley Breeze label, sold exclusively in British Columbia through Kin’s Farm Markets, a Richmond-based chain of greengrocers with 20 outlets that focus on competitively priced fresh fruit and vegetables. Kin’s initially sold four-liter plastic jugs of Worrenberg […]

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