TROPICAL VALLEY FOODS
Tropical Valley Foods was founded in 2001 by Eric Bertheau. At first, we started with a small production unit in Haiti where we produced organic dried mango only. Then came the dried bananas and gradually the company grew to produce a variety of organic, tropical dried fruits. To distribute the products, a US sister company was founded in 2004, going by the same name of Tropical Valley Foods. Although we were still producing in the Caribbean, we started to import additional organic dried fruits from Latin American countries. We strove to standardize protocols among all these facilities to create a uniform quality, organic certification, HACCP standards (food safety) and an ethical code of conduct. The objective was to maintain equitable relationships with the growers and planters from whom the companies purchased the fresh fruits.
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