Ed Prentice and his younger brother Howard established Prentice Packing and Cold Storage Company in 1926 in Yakima, Washington. Organized primarily as a packing and storage operation, the company packed for a number of growers and marketed the boxed fruit under, first the OK, Inc., label, and then the Kare-Ful-Pak brand label. Railcars, each containing 840 boxes of fruit, were loaded and sent to markets in the Midwest and East. In 1956, the company added the Mr. Apple label at the urging of fruit brokers representing Prentice in the central time zone. The company agreed to this addition because of […]