Brooks Tropicals’ produce items keep company busy and customers satisfied throughout the fall season
Brooks Tropicals’ produce items keep company busy and customers satisfied throughout the fall season
“We’re past our summer peak, but we will have normal volumes of our popular ‘SlimCado’ avocados through January,” Bill Brindle, vice president of sales and marketing for Brooks Tropicals, headquartered in Homestead, FL, said in late October. “The quality and sizing continue to be excellent.”
Peter Leifermann, director of sales for the company added, “Passion fruit is coming on strong. Our volumes will triple in November and then double in December.
“Red guava will end in November, but it’s been a good year for this sweet fruit,” Leifermann continued. “We’ve had good volumes and rising demand. The fruit is gaining acceptance outside its Latino and Floridian roots.”
He also noted that dragon fruit will be ending shortly, obsserving that this is another tropical item that seems to be finding a market outside of ethnic sales.
“Boniato is tight, but that’s typical in the fall and winter,” he said. “The crop looks good to resurge in the spring, as usual. Florida star fruit will enter its fall production lull. Volumes should pick up near the end of the holiday season.”
Brooks Tropicals, which was founded in the 1920s, solidly invests in research and development in order to maintain the company’s reputation for quality tropical fruits and vegetables. This practice has proven essential in the company’s ability to produce several revolutionary achievements of the past 30 years that help bring tropical produce to the market in top condition for the enjoyment of the North American consumer.
The company grows, packs and sells over 29 different varieties of tropical produce. Its specialties include “Caribbean Red” papayas, solo papayas, Persian limes, “Groovy” coconuts and uniq fruit. It also grows and ships aloe, chayote, calabaza, water coconuts, eddos, hot peppers, ginger, sugar cane, yams, yucca, plantains and kumquats.
Brooks Tropicals’ website, www.brookstropicals.com, provides handling, usage and nutritional facts and more about the items that the company offers. Brooks is also aggressively involved in social media venues that draw a lot of consumers, to its product line. It also offers a plethora of delicious recipes on how to prepare its unique and vast line of tropical items.
Leifermann said that kumquats should start coming in mid-November.
“Just in time for Thanksgiving dishes,” he noted. “The early fruit will be pale in color. But wait, the fruit will quickly resume its bright orange appearance and sweet taste early in the new year.”
