State Garden Inc. produces everything from organic salad mixes to baby kale to cooking greens under the Olivia’s Organics brand.

“We are the largest distributor of organic packaged salads on the Eastern Seaboard,” said Mark Pins, director of marketing for the Chelsea, MA-based company. “We wash and pack over a million pounds of baby lettuce and spinach every week, and with that comes an oversupply.”

As a third-generation family-owned produce wholesale distributor, Rocky Produce has been an important player in the Michigan produce scene for more than five decades, delivering a full line of quality fruits and vegetables.

That’s important at the end of spring and into the summer months, as locally grown produce begins to make its way into retail stores and restaurants, and Rocky Produce is counted on for bringing in Michigan-grown crops, such as asparagus, radishes, kale and greens.

S. Katzman Produce has been operating out of the Hunts Point Market in the Bronx, NY for more than five decades, and has always been proud to call New York home.

Recognized as one of the leading wholesaler/distributors of quality produce in market, Katzman’s success comes from over 100 years of working with many of the best-known growers and shippers in the industry.

Manfredi Cold Storage is a family-owned and operated third-party logistics company that provides temperature-controlled storage, repacking, refrigerated freight and other services to the produce industry. 

It was only about a year ago when Edward L. Myrick Produce, which had decades of experience in Florida and Georgia, decided to open a Michigan facility to increase its year-round supply of fresh fruits and vegetables.

So, it began operations in Benton Harbor, once known as the Fruit Belt, and increased its presence in Michigan, allowing the company to supply customers with fresh eastern vegetables during the summer months.

North Bay Produce, a powerful cooperative of 33 grower-owners representing more than 1,000 farms from around the world, markets and distributes fresh fruits and vegetables 52 weeks a year.