Produce Alliance adds Kentucky member
Produce Alliance adds Kentucky member
Produce Alliance, headquartered in Nashville, TN, has added Creation Gardens to its membership.
"Creation Gardens is a very unique company that has been bringing outstanding quality and value to its customers over the past nine years," Russ Wingo, director of sales and marketing for Produce Alliance, said in a statement. "Creation Gardens cares about a customer's needs. They have proven that they will do whatever it takes to make the customer satisfied with their service. They are a great match for Produce Alliance."
"We are impressed with their attention to the customer," Joe Collier, director of distribution for Produce Alliance, added in the statement. "Creation Gardens will help Produce Alliance reach a growing customer base in the Kentucky markets as well as parts of Tennessee."
Creation Gardens carries a complete line of specialty items as well as all of the major commodities and value-added foodservice items.
"When we built our business model, we asked the customers what they wanted," Ron Turnier, president of Creation Gardens, said in the statement. "This led Creation Gardens to the trademark signature 'What Chefs Want!' This phrase has been our guiding light."
Mr. Turnier credited the internal organization of Creation Gardens for the company's high level of services.
In the fifth year of running his 100-year-old family ice business, Mr. Turnier purchased a one-man produce company with sales of $300,000. Company assets were three reach-in coolers and a minivan. The company first served the high-end white-tablecloth restaurants with specialty produce -- baby vegetables, baby salads, edible flowers and herbs.
"In nine years we have grown to serve a full line of produce and gourmet products to a broad array of foodservice customers," Mr. Turnier said in the statement. "We still dominate the high-end white-tablecloth segment in Louisville and in the last two years have targeted these accounts in Lexington, Evansville and parts of Tennessee. We now have more satellite routes than local. Corporate business makes up about 18 percent of our sales. Solid specialty program experience has been very beneficial because so many items are now mainstream.
"Today, as a member of Produce Alliance, Creation Gardens seeks growth and diversity through corporate customers who value the company's core strengths and offerings," he continued. "We look for intelligent growth that will not compromise our ability to deliver our 'What Chefs Want!' mantra."
"Creation Gardens is a very unique company that has been bringing outstanding quality and value to its customers over the past nine years," Russ Wingo, director of sales and marketing for Produce Alliance, said in a statement. "Creation Gardens cares about a customer's needs. They have proven that they will do whatever it takes to make the customer satisfied with their service. They are a great match for Produce Alliance."
"We are impressed with their attention to the customer," Joe Collier, director of distribution for Produce Alliance, added in the statement. "Creation Gardens will help Produce Alliance reach a growing customer base in the Kentucky markets as well as parts of Tennessee."
Creation Gardens carries a complete line of specialty items as well as all of the major commodities and value-added foodservice items.
"When we built our business model, we asked the customers what they wanted," Ron Turnier, president of Creation Gardens, said in the statement. "This led Creation Gardens to the trademark signature 'What Chefs Want!' This phrase has been our guiding light."
Mr. Turnier credited the internal organization of Creation Gardens for the company's high level of services.
In the fifth year of running his 100-year-old family ice business, Mr. Turnier purchased a one-man produce company with sales of $300,000. Company assets were three reach-in coolers and a minivan. The company first served the high-end white-tablecloth restaurants with specialty produce -- baby vegetables, baby salads, edible flowers and herbs.
"In nine years we have grown to serve a full line of produce and gourmet products to a broad array of foodservice customers," Mr. Turnier said in the statement. "We still dominate the high-end white-tablecloth segment in Louisville and in the last two years have targeted these accounts in Lexington, Evansville and parts of Tennessee. We now have more satellite routes than local. Corporate business makes up about 18 percent of our sales. Solid specialty program experience has been very beneficial because so many items are now mainstream.
"Today, as a member of Produce Alliance, Creation Gardens seeks growth and diversity through corporate customers who value the company's core strengths and offerings," he continued. "We look for intelligent growth that will not compromise our ability to deliver our 'What Chefs Want!' mantra."
