- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- South Georgia Pecan Company
- Creator:
- Bowers, Paige
- Date of Original:
- 2006-10-28
- Subject:
- Pecan--Georgia
Pecan industry--Georgia
Pecan--Processing - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Lowndes County, Valdosta, 30.83334, -83.28032
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about the South Georgia Pecan Company. The Valdosta-based South Georgia Pecan Company, the second-largest pecan-shelling company in the nation, began as a small family business in the early 1900s. It has grown into a privately owned industry leader because of its easy access to local nuts and its emphasis on using the latest technology. (The country's largest pecan sheller is John B. Sanfilippo and Sons of Texas.) In 2006 South Georgia Pecan Company, which processes at least 50 million pounds of pecans a year, moved into a 200,000-square-foot plant formerly owned by Levi Strauss and Co., bolstering its already strong business of selling to food manufacturers, supermarket chains, and individuals. In 2005 the company's revenues totaled between $60 million and $70 million.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/south-georgia-pecan-company/
- Language:
- eng
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- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
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