They write:. Our canned vegetables also undergo the canning process near where they are grown: in Minnesota, Idaho, Wisconsin, New York, the Netherlands, and Peru. The claim has a third company name in its mix, but this time it is supportive. The claim states that Picsweet sources its vegetables from American farms and thus it is the best place to buy frozen and canned foods.
The company hails from Tennessee, as per a source and it produces packaged vegetables such as corn, green beans, carrots, broccoli, peas, and squash, as well as frozen dinners, stews, and quick meals. However, the site of Pictsweet does not include any information about the origin of the vegetables. However, as per a news article in a leading daily, United Foods, which produces PictSweet frozen vegetables, said that they have no foreign produce in its products.
Google Trends show that many people searched for this piece of information. One can see that the searches reached a peak on May 26, at 4. Here is the snippet:. United Foods companies grow vegetables on farms in Tennessee, Utah and California. It then cans and freezes its vegetables for sale to grocery chains like Kroger, Food Lion and Publix.
The company has not approached the city about a PILOT program like the one extended to Drescher when it opened, but the city would be open to such programs if the company chooses to expand the operation.
Drescher, at the time a subsidiary of Alliant Exchange, Inc. Foodservice, a division of industry giant Royal Ahold, acquired Drescher, a year-old redistributor of food, when it bought its parent, Alliant Exchange, in November The facility became expendable after U. Foodservice sold Drescher to Mt. It acquired approximately 7, acres of land on the Cumberland Plateau in East Tennessee.
The company noted that the cost to ship a pound of vegetables from California to the East Coast continued to escalate due to higher fuel costs. With the items being produced in Tennessee, the company could cut its freight costs in half. Like others in the frozen food industry, United Foods was implementing a program to move a significant portion of its vegetable production to the central United States from the West Coast. In the company leased approximately 2, acres of the land it had acquired in Tennessee to independent farmers.
Included in this purchase were vegetable processing plants in Fairmont, Minnesota, and Albany, Oregon, which were added to United Foods' frozen food division. As a result, United Foods began selling frozen vegetables throughout the United States under the Pictsweet and Stokely brands and in the Midwest and South under the Everfresh brands.
As expected, the company had record sales in , due primarily to the acquisitions of Freezer Queen and Stokely-Van Camp. However, the company also experienced an unexpected decrease in earnings. Competitive market conditions resulted in depressed selling prices throughout the fiscal year. Sales volume was lower than expected in the fourth quarter due to adverse weather conditions, which caused the company to deplete its stocks of certain key vegetables.
These were largely attributed to additional staff and expenses associated with the expansion of the frozen food product line. Like other processors, United Foods was moving its operations out of the traditional growing areas of California and the Pacific Northwest to be nearer the eastern population centers, allowing for lower distribution costs.
Since, the remaining western processing capacity far exceeded that needed to serve western population centers, some western processors began to lower their prices, even while many key vegetables were in short supply. In response, United Foods led an industry realignment, investing capital to increase the capacity of its Tennessee and Minnesota processing and distribution facilities.
It closed five plants located in California and the Pacific Northwest, while its remaining western processing capacity was brought into line with demand there. Freezer Queen operated above expectations in its profitability surged and market share was gained in the frozen entree categories in which it participated. A new line of twin-pouch single-serving entrees was developed for introduction to several test markets by the end of This was considered one of the fastest growing areas of the frozen food industry.
However, overall revenues at United Foods would not reach levels again until the early s. During this period the company cut back its processing facilities and consolidated its brands. Moreover, the company began experiencing labor problems in the summer of that would grow more severe over the coming years.
Citing the need to reduce labor costs to remain competitive, the company noted that wage rates paid by competitors had declined during the year and that wages paid in Mexico were lower than U.
When its union contracts expired, United Foods attempted to negotiate lower wage rates, resulting in strikes in and at the company's Fairmont, Minnesota; Modesto, California; and Salinas, California, facilities. During and , United Foods permanently replaced its striking workers at the Modesto and Salinas facilities. Decertification elections were held, with employees at both plants voting against the union.
Then, in the company closed its plants in Modesto and Salinas and consolidated the frozen vegetable processing and cold storage operations at a leased facility in Santa Maria, California, effective June 28, The closing of the Salinas plant put people out of work. As a result of these closures, in the company operated from three frozen vegetable processing plants and cold storage warehouses located in Bells, Tennessee; Fairmont, Minnesota; and Ogden, Utah.
It leased one processing plant and cold storage warehouse facility in Santa Maria, California, which it would later purchase.
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