Earthbound Farm
We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Earthbound Farm's Farm Stand, Carmel, California. 8,641 likes 12 talking about this 6,666 were here. Our Farm Stand offers fresh organic produce & flowers, delicious food from our certified.
| Subsidiary | |
| Founded | 1984; 36 years ago |
|---|---|
| Founders | Drew and Myra Goodman |
| Headquarters | San Juan Bautista, California |
| Parent | Taylor Farms |
| Website | earthboundfarm.com |
Earthbound Farm is an Americanfarm located near San Juan Bautista, California.It is the largest producer of organic salads in the US.[1] It was also the first company to produce prewashed, packaged salad greens on an industrial scale.[2] Earthbound Farm was founded in 1984 by Drew and Myra Goodman, on a 2.5 acres (10,000 m2) farm in California’s Carmel Valley.[1][3] Just over two decades later, the company employed over 150 growers on 30,000 acres.[4] By 2015, nearly 50,000 acres were in production.[5] In The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan referred to Earthbound Farm as 'a company that arguably represents industrial organic farming at its best.'[6]
Cut the chain. In 2009, HM Capital acquired Earthbound Farm.[7] In 2013, Earthbound Farm was acquired by WhiteWave Foods, owner of Horizon Organic milk, for $600 million.[8] In July 2016 it was announced that the French company Danone would purchase WhiteWave Foods for $10.4 billion.[9] The acquisition was completed in April 2017 and the newly formed company was named DanoneWave.[10] Earthbound Farm was acquired again in April 2019 by Taylor Farms.[11]
References[edit]
- ^ abAmanda Hesser, Salad in Sealed Bags Isn't So Simple, It Seems, The New York Times, January 14, 2003.
- ^Samuel Fromartz (2005). Organic Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew. Harcourt. ISBN978-0-15-603242-1.
- ^Dawn Withers, Earthbound Farm turns 25, sees organic remaining strong, The Packer, August 25, 2009.
- ^Whitney, Jake (28 January 2007). 'Organic Erosion: Will the term organic still mean anything when it's adopted whole hog by behemoths such as Wal-Mart?'. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- ^'Earthbound Farm Organic: Our Story'. Earthbound Farm. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- ^Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, The Penguin Press, 2006, ISBN978-1-59420-082-3, Pg. 162.
- ^Griffith, Erin (2009-07-21). 'HM Capital Buys The (Organic) Farm'. PE HUB. Retrieved 2015-04-19.
- ^Anderson, Mark C. (9 December 2013). 'Locally-based organic giant Earthbound Farm sells to WhiteWave Foods'. Monterey County Weekly. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- ^http://fortune.com/2016/07/13/danone-whitewave-acquisition-2/
- ^http://www.dairyreporter.com/Manufacturers/Danone-completes-acquisition-of-WhiteWave-to-create-DanoneWave
- ^'Taylor Farms buys Earthbound Farm from Danone'. www.foodbusinessnews.net. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
External links[edit]
- Jennifer McNulty, Alum brings organic produce into the mainstream, Currents online (University of California, Santa Cruz), November 8, 2004
Coordinates: 36°52′29″N121°33′13″W / 36.87472°N 121.55361°W
SALINAS — Taylor Farms has acquired organic produce leader Earthbound Farm of San Juan Bautista.Salinas-based Taylor Farms said in a news release Thursday that it had bought Earthbound, which had its start in Carmel Valley in 1984, from Danone SA, a Paris-based health-food conglomerate that reported 2018 sales of 24.7 billion euros, or $27.8 billion.The transaction closed Thursday.The amount of the acquisition was not disclosed, but Danone, a company that is publicly traded on Euronext Paris, reported that Earthbound’s 2018 revenue stood at $400 million. Earthbound had been owned by WhiteWave Foods since 2013, until Danone acquired WhiteWave in 2017. Danone said it bought Earthbound “to capitalize on consumer trends towards healthier and more sustainable eating and drinking choices,” according to its own release.Earthbound’s history dates back to 1984 when it was founded on 2.5 acres in Carmel Valley. Drew Goodman was the chief executive and co-founder, with his wife, Myra, of Earthbound Farm. Now based in San Juan Bautista, Deverl Maserang is the CEO. Neither company commented on any planned personnel changes.Earthbound now produces more than 100 varieties of organic salads, fruits and vegetables on a total of about 33,000 acres, with individual farms ranging from 5 to 680 acres in California, Arizona, Washington, Oregon, Mexico, Canada and Chile.Earthbound currently distributes its products to more than 70% of all U.S.
Supermarkets — among them Costco, Wal-Mart, Safeway and Albertsons — and to some international markets.Related Articles.The company made a tenacious comeback after it was associated with a 2006 E. Coli outbreak that sickened 276 people and killed three. The tainted produce was grown in the ranching community of Paicines in San Benito County. The contaminated spinach was traced back to two companies, including Natural Selection Foods.
Earthbound was one of Natural Selection’s brands.