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300
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B
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PMA Gold
Circle Member
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Top
Quality Produce at a
Fair Price |
ABOUT
WINDSOR DISTRIBUTING |
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Mission Statement:
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At Windsor Distributing,
we aim to inform, educate and help every customer
achieve their corporate goal of profitability
by providing top quality produce at a fair
price and keeping them informed about market
conditions and product availability. |
Background:
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We are a full service
vegetable Shipper/Broker specializing
in cucumbers, green and red bell peppers,
broccoli and broccoli crowns, pickling
cucumbers, variety hot peppers, green
beans, green and yellow squash, hard
squash, eggplant, corn, cantaloupes,
cabbage, florida red and white potatoes,
off-shore vegetables and melons, Mexican
vegetables and melons, tomatoes (including
hothouse, vine ripe, grape and cherry),
California fruits and vegetables and
other seasonal items such as Florida
herbs, Georgia greens, Texas watermelons
and off-shore okra. |
Offices:
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Naples,
Florida: |
Headquarters |
Nogales,
Arizona: |
Year Round |
Boston,
Massachusetts: |
Year Round |
Morgan
Hill, California: |
Year Round |
Eau Claire,
Michigan: |
Seasonal (mid
June—mid October) |
Valdosta,
Georgia: |
Seasonal (September—November;
May—mid-July) |
Faison,
North Carolina: |
Seasonal (June—mid-July,
September—October) |
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Affiliations:
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Blue Book Trading
Member: 300 XXXX AB Rating Red
Book Character Award: B **** I Rating
PMA Gold Circle Member |
Operations:
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We are the sales agent
for Farmer Mike in Immokalee
Florida. We also work with every major
shipper/grower from all the different
growing areas in Florida, Georgia,
Texas, North and South Carolina, Virginia,
Michigan, New Jersey, California,
Arizona, Mexico and Eastern Canada.
Some of these include Pacific
Collier, Dubois Farms, Pero Farms,
Five Brothers Produce, Florida Vegetable
Co., Wilkinson-Cooper, Marker 29 Produce,
Cottle Farms, So. Georgia Produce,
Farmers' Best, Kaliroy-Pacific, Delcampo
Supreme, Omega Produce, Sunfed, Lewis
Nursery, Freitas Brothers Farms, Pacific
International Marketing, Tanimura
& Antle, Steinbeck Country Produce,
Duda Farm Fresh Foods, Ocean Mist
Farms, H. Smith Packing and Western
Harvest. |
Personnel:
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Our produce team has over 200
years of combined experience consisting of
retail, wholesale, food service, shipping,
packing, brokering, repacking and transportation.
The team consists of the following people: |
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Jon
Karalekas |
President
and Chief Executive Officer
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Brian
Milligan |
Director of
Marketing and Logistics, Off-Shore
Product |
Dennis
Sweetin |
Manager of
the Michigan Office and Midwestern
Sales |
Frank
Badalato |
Manager of
the Nogales Office and Western
Vegetable Sales |
Joe
Gilardi |
Handles all
tomato sales out of the Nogales
Office |
Peter
Lomanno |
Handles West
Coast Fruit and Vegetable Sales |
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Vince
Rosa |
Handles California
broccoli, broccoli crowns and
asian-cut broccoli crowns |
Bryan
Martin |
Field Inspector
for Florida, the Carolinas and
Michigan |
Tomas
German |
Field Inspector
for Nogales and Georgia |
Karan
Houghton |
Accounting
and Bookkeeping |
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