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[Mary W.] Brownwood Acres was started in 1945 by my
grandmother.
During World War II there was a sugar ration, so my grandmother started making honey and
the first Cherry Butter ever made.
[Steve D.] When I got out of college I took the products
that my grandmother had been making; started marketing those products to higher end shops
around the country.
It has always been about cherry products.
And we care about your health.
We discovered the health benefits of cherries.
So we got into the health product world and we’re the largest seller of tart cherry
juice concentrate to the retail trade in the United States.
We have cherry juice concentrate, wild blueberry products, pomegranate products.
Today we’re filming pomegranate juice concentrate. This is our feed line. Feeds the bottles down
the conveyor. We use a custom two-head filler. Today we’re filling the quarts.
This is our Risna Automated Capper. We can fill four to five thousand bottles in a day’s
time.
Shipping goes up every year, quite considerably.
Today we’re shipping 700 to 1,000 packages a week around the country.
We switched to Regional Rate to save our customers a lot of money.
You’re saving anywhere from three dollars to seven dollars per package.
And the Regional Rate boxes do not discriminate against small towns so there’s no added
charge there.
That really and truly is one of the biggest advantages of the Postal Service is not paying
that surcharge to a lot of these smaller towns.
It is incredible how fast it gets there and how reliable they are.
We take very good care of our customers and we will continue giving them the best health
product, the cheapest shipping rate, as well as the fastest service.