Family. Fanatics. Farm. About Stemilt
Welcome To The Family
West Mathison Kyle Mathison Tate Mathison President - 5th Generation Grower - 4th Generation Director of Sales - 5th Generation
Our family has grown apples World Famous Fruit is fruit with flavor We’re always looking for the next and pears for over 100 years and five that shoppers remember and trust. great variety to elevate the fruit generations. Every day, we’re striving We’re growing more Artisan eating experience. Rave® is a Stemilt to cultivate people and produce fruit Organics™ apples in modern signature apple and is outrageously that will delight consumers. varieties that shoppers will enjoy. juicy with a refreshing, snappy zing.
Our Mission To cultivate people and delight consumers Inspiration Orchard®
Where Flavors Grow
Stemilt president and 5th generation grower West Mathison is taking Stemilt to a place called Inspiration Orchard®. This place is where flavors grow because of a unity between the orchard locale, horticulturalists, rootstocks, varieties and farming practices. This journey is endless and driven by our mission to delight consumers.
Rave® Rave® brand MN55 cultivar apples are outrageously juicy with a refreshing snappy zing. They are available in early August. • Cross between Honeycrisp and MonArk, a variety that colors and matures early in the season • Best used for fresh applications • Developed by the University of Minnesota researchers that brought Honeycrisp and SweeTango® to the world
SweeTango® SweeTango® brand Minneiska cultivar apples are incredibly crisp and flavorful and are harvested in August. • Part Honeycrisp, part Zestar®, SweeTango® stands out visually and has a superior taste • Developed by the same University of Minnesota researchers that bred Honeycrisp and Rave® • Stemilt grows and markets the apple for the western United States as part of the national Next Big Thing growers’ cooperative
Piñata® Piñata® brand Pinova cultivar apples are a Stemilt signature variety with year-round availability. • Known for its classic apple flavors and tropical twist, Piñata® is a culinary standout • Piñata® is best for cooking, baking or fresh snacking thanks to its crisp, juicy bite and unique flavor profile • Cross between three heirloom varieties: Golden Delicious, Cox’s Orange Pippin, and Duchess of Oldenburg Inspiration Orchard®
Where Flavors Grow
Honeyhill™ Honeyhill™ Incredible Honeycrisp apples have the taste of fall all season long thanks to Stemilt’s attention to detail on growing fruit with high colors and qualities. • Honeyhill™ brings horticultural practices, researched storage techniques, and a new late season sport of Honeycrisp (Royal) into this premium program for your category’s leading apple variety • Honeycrisp with high colors and good starch reserves result in great sugars and high acids to make Honeyhill™ stand out at retail
Aztec Fuji Aztec Fuji is a high-color, high-quality premium Fuji variety grown and marketed by Stemilt and is a feature of our Fuji program. • Aztec is a strain picked with full color and desired starch reserves so that we can deliver a year-round consistent flavor profile for Fuji • We market this variety with the Fuji PLU to eliminate confusion at retail
Pink Lady® Pink Lady® brand apples were pioneered by Stemilt in Washington State following their arrival from Australia in the 1990s. • Grown in warm orchard locales like Mattawa and Pasco where this apple thrives • More than two decades of experience farming this apple has given Stemilt an advantage in producing Pink Lady® apples with high color, good sizing, and great eating qualities
Cosmic Crisp® Cosmic Crisp® brand apples are the newest apple variety on the market and available starting in December. • Large, juicy red apple with firm and crisp texture • Dream apple with perfect flavor and texture balance, longest storage and natural resistance to browning • Stemilt contributed to this apple’s development which paved the way for Stemilt to become a Cosmic Crisp® industry leader Rushing Rivers® Pears
Our Operation Flavor Promise
Our Commitment To You Operation Flavor is a 360˚ commitment to setting a new standard for the flavor of pears. We will help grow your pear category one flavor-first pear at a time.
The Best Locales RipeRite® Program Code For Cooling
• Pristine river valleys in close • R&D backed process for • Summer pears are cooled quickly proximity to storage/packing ready-to-eat pears after harvest for quality • Grown by multi-generational • d’Anjou pears are ripened in two • Hydrocooling and jet cooling farmers TarpLess® rooms (16 coolers) capabilities • Vented Euro box is essential for uniform ripening Forecasting No Anti-Ripening New CA Rooms For Freshness Agents
• 11 rooms at the Fresh Cube • Supply and demand forecasting • Stemilt and HI-UP are no longer DC are engineered for pears allows for fresh packing using MCP agents on pears and and their airflow needs • Three packing lines give us haven’t since 2018 great packaging flexibility
Turn Your Pear Category Around Today Stores that switched to ripened d’Anjou pears saw pear sales increase nearly 20% in just 12 weeks when compared to stores selling non-ripened d’Anjou pears. Bottom line = ripened pears delight consumers! Source: Pear Bureau NW study www.Stemilt.com/tkrr www.Stemilt.com/rr Rushing Rivers® Pears
Branding + Intent Segmentation
Item Category Product Promotional Segment Target Positioning Strategy
Bulk With PLU • Retail dollar driver • Primary driver and majority of • Monthly promotion is a must • Primary consumer pear display with 2 to 3 items per ad • Use Stemilt’s new Farm + Famous • Online home delivery and tote program to encourage larger curbside is a must but bulk purchase sizes and great looking will not be the volume driver displays Lil Snappers® 9/3 lb. • Parents with kids • Segment is growing rapidly with • Great liner promotions with • Convenience wing displays and secondary bulk pears being the primary • Seniors display all built with the display segment • Wellness ready cartons they arrive in • Lil Snappers® pears are a • Integrate Lil Snappers® with your must for online home bulk pear displays when possible delivery and curbside pickup for cross category success • Brand loyalty make repeat purchases key Rushing Rivers® 5 lb. & 4 lb. • Parents with kids • This segment drives the category • This is the ultimate • Convenience in volume spikes with wing grab-and-go item to build • Seniors displays and seasonal cross- volume and dollars on pears category display work • It also is a great value item for online home delivery and curbside pickup Bulk Organic • Retail dollar driver • Segment fits well with your • Organic bulk is an item that • Primary organic organic pear category needs promotion and fits consumer • One SKU is ideal for regular well in cross-category business with seasonal promotions organic ads featuring up to 4 items Organic Lil Snappers® 12/ 2lb. • Parents with kids • This segment displays best right • This can be a great way to • Convenience out of the display ready cartons build an organic pear category • Seniors as a wing display with volume and dollars on a • Wellness • Lil Snappers® bags also work smaller volume segment well in bookshelf refrigeration • Liners under the bulk as they stand-up and have great conventional pear promotions identification can help drive sales Increase Purchase Size with Lil Snappers® 3lb. Pouch Bags When comparing the Lil Snappers® 3lb. bag pear user and the 12/2lb. bag pear user, retailers found that the 3lb. bag sold 225% more volume and 152% more dollars than the 2lb. bag. When Lil Snappers® 3lb. bags are compared to the U.S. composite, the Lil Snappers® retailer saw increases in both dollars (152%) and volume (169%).* Source: Stemilt Fruit Tracker™ study *Percentages were calculated off per thousand dollars of produce sales to equalize factors #1 Kid Size Fruit Program
Family Friendly Pouch Bag Program
What’s The Story Lil Snappers® is a complete line of kid sized apples, pears, and organics that markets intent to parents buying healthy snacks for their kids.
Why Lil Snappers® Work Stemilt Supports Brand Lil Snappers® are available in 3lb. pouch bags, an ideal size for families We support Lil Snappers® beyond the and their store trip frequency. This package size lets you set a good retail point-of-sale. This brand has placement price and drives more volume than smaller pouch bag sizes. in consumer media and with social media influencers, especially around key promotional times like Back-to-School.
9/3 lb. 12/2 lb. Pouch Bags Pouch Bags
Apples Organic Apples Pears Organic Pears Fuji Fuji Bartlett Bartlett 7 41839 00588 9 7 41839 00725 8 7 41839 00714 2 7 41839 00785 2 Gala Gala Bosc Bosc 7 41839 00590 2 7 41839 00596 4 7 41839 00720 3 7 41839 00788 3 Golden Delicious Granny Smith Concorde Concorde 7 41839 00724 1 7 41839 00597 1 7 41839 00710 4 7 41839 00728 9 Granny Smith Honeycrisp d’Anjou d’Anjou 7 41839 00591 9 7 41839 00722 7 7 41839 00712 8 7 41839 00786 9 Honeycrisp Piñata® Red Pears Red Pears 7 41839 00592 6 7 41839 00599 5 7 41839 00719 7 7 41839 00787 6 Piñata® Pink Lady® Tosca 7 41839 00594 0 7 41839 00598 8 7 41839 00732 6 Pink Lady® 7 41839 00593 3 Red Delicious 7 41839 00723 4 www.Stemilt.com/tkls www.Stemilt.com/ls #1 Kid Size Fruit Program
Family Friendly Pouch Bag Program
Lane Table Display Bin Display Bin L: 16.25” W: 16” H: 36.25” L: 44.75” W: 14.5” H: 30.5” 100 per pallet 50 per pallet
Lil Snappers® Lane Table Display DRC 9/3 lb. • Build secondary displays for key locations L: 23.375” W: 15.75” H: 7.25” • Place two back-to-back for island display 27 lb. net • Use to cross merchandise apples in various store areas 29 lb. gross • Fast pop-up thanks to one-piece construction Case Cube = 1.54 ft3 • Bar coding for D.C. receiving 60 per pallet, 5ti x 12hi @93”
DRC 12/2 lb. L: 23.375” W: 15.75” H: 7.25” 24 lb. net 26 lb. gross Case Cube = 1.54 ft3 60 per pallet, 5ti x 12hi @93”
www.Stemilt.com/tkls www.Stemilt.com/ls Piñata® Apples
Taste The Tropics Year-Round
What’s The Story The Piñata® brand Pinova cultivar apple is a Stemilt signature variety with a tropical flavor twist. This culinary delight comes from three heirloom varieties – Golden Delicious, Cox’s Orange Pippin, and Duchess of Oldenburg. The firm skin and juicy bite make this apple a culinary standout. 36% of Stemilt’s When is Piñata® Available? Piñata® apples are Piñata® is available year-round ORGANIC!
Exterior Interior Experience
Full red to stripy red over a Bright white and full of juice Crisp and juicy with classic apple yellow-orange background flavors and a tropical twist
Merchandising Tips • Use Piñata® as a feature in multi-variety ads from November through July • Tell the special Piñata® story through POS signage and tropical-themed cartons or pop-up display bins • Promote intent packages like Lil Snappers® kid sized Piñata® apples or 5lb. Piñata® Apple Lover pouch bags • Use our social toolkit to spread the word about the tropical apple • Use demos and produce display contests to add in-store excitement around Piñata® Piñata® Apples
Taste The Tropics Year-Round
8/5 lb. Pouch Bag UPC: 7 41839 00697 8
Standard Carton
Euro DRC
Point-of-Sale
9/3 lb. Pouch Bag Organic 9/3 lb. Pouch Bag UPC: 7 41839 00594 0 UPC: 7 41839 00599 5 www.Stemilt.com/tkpa www.PinataApple.com Farm + Famous
NEW! Paper Tote Program
What Is The Farm + Famous Tote? A new, grab-and-go pack to help sell bulk apples. It’s a paper tote bag packed in a display-ready Euro box with an earthy design that highlights Euro Box Specifications the important work farmers do. • 8/4lb. Euro footprint box with snap-on lid Why Farm + Famous Totes Work • 32 lb. per case They offer retailers a grab-and-go pack that displays instantly • 55 cases per pallet and meets consumer demand for sustainable packaging. • 5ti x 11hi • Random-weight tote bags • Cashier will use PLU stickers on the fruit to ring up the bag
How2Recycle Approved This paper package is 100% recyclable and features How2Recycle labeling on the bottom of the tote bag to help shoppers know how to recycle the package. Omnopoly
Set The Mix For Bricks AND Clicks
What Is Omnopoly? Use The 4Ps The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed grocery shopping habits and made To Merchandise omni-channel sales more important for the produce department. Stemilt’s Apples & Pears For brands and product mix are segmented and ready to help retailers sell fruit for Omni-Channel Sales both in-store and online (grocery pick-up/delivery) shopping channels. Success • Product = Pick the mix from the The Players: Players • Lil Snappers®: This top-selling 3lb. pouch is a great grab-and-go pack • Price = Set a good retail price to feed families. for omni-channels • Apple Lover: The 5lb. Apple Lover pack targets the stock-up shopper who is • Placement = Build displays instantly making fewer trips to the grocery store because of COVID-19. with DRCs and Euro cartons • Farm + Famous Tote: Sell bulk apples and pears in a NEW random-weight • Promotion = Plan multi-variety paper tote bag. It comes ready for display in an Euro box to help with quick mega ads this fall and winter for pick-ups on in-store purchases. both print and online ad versions • Artisan Organics™ Apple Lover: Organics are in hot demand and this 5lb. pack helps boost purchase size while store trip frequency is down. • Rushing Rivers® Pears: Boost the average purchase size of pears both in-store and online with this 4lb. and 5lb. bag line-up. • Fresh Blenders®: This value offering of 5lb. bags is ideal for the health-conscious shopper who uses extra apples to juice or make smoothies.
Meet The Players
Easy Pallet Display Bins L: 40” W: 40” H: 35” Click to view how to assemble display Cosmic Crisp®
Imagine The PossibilitiesTM
What’s The Story The Cosmic Crisp® WA 38 cv brand apple variety is a Honeycrisp-Enterprise cross brought to us by Washington State University’s world-class tree fruit breeding program. Stemilt was part of WSU’s early development of the apple What Cosmic and is an industry leader of the variety today. Stemilt is planting and producing Crisp® Offers It’s the dream apple with the perfect Cosmic Crisp® at a rapid pace so it is available to you and your customers flavor and texture balance, longest for extended periods of time. storage, and natural resistance When Are They Available? to browning. Cosmic Crisp® is available starting in December
2 lb. Pouch 3 lb. Pouch
Exterior Interior Experience
A large, juicy, red apple with a firm Ample sweetness with a flesh that is The perfect flavor and texture and crisp texture naturally slow to brown when cut balance makes this apple go beyond expectations for snacking, baking, and entertaining.
UPC List 2 lb. Pouch bag 4 lb. Pouch Bag 7 41839 35002 6 7 41839 00676 3 3 lb. Pouch bag 5 lb. Pouch Bag 7 41839 35003 3 7 41839 35005 7
TRAY TOP - HIGH GRAPHIC EURO BOX - HIGH GRAPHIC
www.Stemilt.com/tkcc www.Stemilt.com/cc The Apple Lover Pack
Promotable Volumes For Both Online and In Store Shopping
What is the Apple Lover Pack? This line of 5lb. and 4lb. pouch bags is a proven way for you to increase the volume of apples you sell AND market intent to your best apple shoppers. Promote Apple Lover packs in-store and online with core varieties available Wait, There’s More! year-round. • Gusseted pouch bag has a sturdy resealable zip lock and stands up Why Apple Lover Works on display and in the refrigerator • 5lb. and 4lb. sizes increase shopper purchase size at home • Available in both conventional and organic • You can build instant displays at • Works for your in-and-out promotions and grab-and-go options retail thanks to this pack shipping • Makes a great everyday item sold in a different location from your in our Inspiration Orchard® DRC or main apple display Artisan Organics™ DRC • Easy item to add for online purchases
Display Ready Carton 8/5 lb. Pouch & 9/4 lb. Pouch | L: 23.5” W: 15.5” H: 11.5” | 40 lb. Net, 42 lb. Gross, Case Cube = 2.42 ft3 | 40 per pallet, 5ti x 8hi
5 lb. Pouch 4 lb. Pouch 5 lb. Pouch
FUJI: 741839 00694-7 *COSMIC CRISP®: 741839 00676-3 FUJI: 7 41839 00 685-5 GALA: 741839 00693-0 GALA: 741839 00741-8 GALA: 7 41839 00683-1 GRANNY SMITH: 741839 00699-2 HONEYCRISP: 74183900677-0 GRANNY SMITH: 7 41839 00682-4 GOLDEN DELICIOUS: 741839 00700-5 PIÑATA®: 741839 00740-1 PIÑATA®: 7 41839 00680-0 PIÑATA®: 741839 00697-8 PINK LADY®: 741839 00742-5 PINK LADY®: 741839 00696-1 RAVE®: 741839 00738-8 RAVE®: 741839 00679-4 *SWEETANGO®: 741839 90006-1 RED DELICIOUS: 741839 00695-4 *No Apple Lover Logo On Bag There’s An Apple For That
Your Themed Apple Merchandising Menu
What is There’s an Apple for That? Bring some fun to your monthly bulk apple promotions with our There’s an Apple for That merchandising program and the menu of options to bring it into your stores.
POS Signage Pop-Up Display Bins Display Contests
Celebrate a unique quality for each Use bins for large apple displays or to Drive apple sales with a Stemilt Stemilt apple variety and call out your merchandise apples in a secondary sponsored display contest between Apple of the Month via 11x7 signage location your produce managers
Dietitian Tie-Ins Digital Media Toolkits
Elevate apple promotions and focus Highlight your apple promotions on on the nutritional powers of this all of your digital channels with our super fruit by letting us work with complete and customizable digital your in-store dietitians media toolkit There’s An Apple For That
Your Themed Apple Merchandising Menu
Geo-Targeted Social Ads We’ll boost your apple promotions through creative social ads on Facebook and Instagram to reach your shoppers and your key market cities. Meet Tim & Jocelyn Stemilt’s apple concierge crew
Don’t Forget! AppleForThat.Stemilt.com is the website where we answer questions shoppers have about apples. Head there for tips, tricks, and recipes to educate shoppers about the flavors and best uses of the Stemilt apples you carry.
www.Stemilt.com/tktaaft Build A Successful Intent Based Category
Branding & Intent Segmentation
Item Category Product Promotional Segment Target Positioning Strategy
Bulk With PLU • Retail dollar driver • Primary apple display • Best dollar driver for category • Primary consumer year-round • Two promotions per month • Secondary displays for (average) with heavy focus on fall promotion and new • A must for online shopping, but can item introduction be challenging for building • Stemilt’s new Farm + purchase size Famous tote can increase purchase size on profitable segment Lil Snappers® 9/3 lb. • Parents with kids • Primary bag display • Great cross-category promotion that • Convenience but can adapt to book drives better retail dollars than lesser • Seniors shelf refrigeration regarded poly programs • Wellness unlike poly bag • Great grab-and-go option that begs • Makes great satellite to be picked up quickly • Proven driver for online home /wing displays using delivery and curbside shopping with display ready carton great branding, packaging, and repeat it comes in purchase-ability Apple Lover 8/5 lb.
• Heavy apple users • Self displays fruit for • Drive volume with promotion due • Value shoppers large purchase sizes to its 5lb. united size and easy ring on in an attractive display self-service registers ready carton that’s • Easy grab-and-go item with handle stackable and builds • Ultimate sales vehicle for online beautiful displays home delivery and curbside pickup • Item able to stand-up • Deliver as premium item with easy on table/bin displays flavor identification and storage
Fresh Blenders® 8/5 lb. • Juicing / blending • Best displayed in wing • Great grab-and-go store user or satellite display as it’s promotion item truly an impulse item • Great item to feature online for those who blend and need value that is denoted in packaging and branding Build A Successful Intent Based Category
Branding & Intent Segmentation
Item Category Product Promotional Segment Target Positioning Strategy
Holiday 8/5 lb. • Holiday impulse • Secondary display • Great grab-and-go item for in-store buy for specialty item with purchases during holiday season two weeks lead in • Make it an in-and-out promotion for time before holiday two weeks before the holiday to drive category and increase purchase size
Bulk Organic • Retail dollar • Primary apple display • Top organic driver for the category driver primary for organic shoppers • Cross promotion with multiple consumer • Secondary displays for varieties to elevate category • Primary organic promotion and new • A must-have item for online consumer item introduction for shopping, but can be challenging for building purchase size organic products
Lil Snappers® Organic 9/3 lb. • Parents with kids • Primary bag displays • Organic Lil Snappers® are great for • Convenience in the organic section cross-category promotions because • Seniors • Ability to become of their grab-and-go capabilities and • Wellness bookshelf display in convenience for families refrigeration • This brand is a proven driver for • Using organic online shopping via home delivery Lil Snappers® display or curbside ready carton makes • Heavy promotion during great option for back-to-school times both online satellite/wing displays and in-store Fresh Blenders® Organic 9/4 lb. • Juicing / blending • Organic Fresh • Organic Fresh Blenders® are a great user Blenders® are best grab-and-go in-store promotional shown in wing or item to build cross-category satellite displays placed juicing/health promotions in organic section or • Packaging makes this an easy produce department purchase for organic shoppers who • Showcase along shop online and seek value and quality other organic produce items like spinach, carrots to encourage juicing and smoothies Artisan OrganicsTM
Organic Pioneers Growing Modern Flavors
What’s The Story At Stemilt, organic fruit is a 30-year promise and our founding family’s passion. Our founder Tom Mathison boldly transitioned hundreds of acres to organic in 1989. His foresight helped Stemilt become a leader in organic tree fruits today. Our Artisan Organics™ program is focused on the future with growing modern flavors organically to delight consumers.
Organic Apple Availability Organic Pear Availability
Fuji Bartlett Gala Bosc Granny Smith Concorde Honeycrisp d’Anjou Piñata® Red d’Anjou Pink Lady® Starkrimson SweeTango® Tosca Tate Mathison SEATTLE SPOKANE WENATCHEE
YAKIMA
PASCO
Artisan Organics™ Apple & Pear Program • Apple crops grown in modern, trellised orchards with strict harvest protocol for continuous supply most months of the year • Best pear locales in the world make it possible for us to grow this fruit organically • Dynamic controlled atmosphere systems extend storage life while maintaining quality and condition of apples • Small CA rooms designated for organics so that we can open new rooms often to maximize freshness • Organics packed on a dedicated organic line by trained teams
Current Artisan Organics™ Numbers • 27% of our apple crop is organic • 17% of our pear crop is organic
What’s The Future for Artisan Organics™? • Organic SweeTango®, Pink Lady®, and Honeycrisp will continue to increase in supply • Cosmic Crisp® will come on line organically in next 5 years
www.Stemilt.com/tkorg www.Stemilt.com/org Resources Retailers Need
Launch Your Very Own World Famous Promotions
Digital Media Toolkits Farm to Fork Toolkits for branded and in-season fruits Bring the grower to your store by provide you with promotion resources, sharing their unique story and our including: iconic orchard locales. Grower • Social posts and images • Fact sheet and POS stories offer transparency to build • Ad photos trust with your shoppers.
Dynamic Data Fruit Tracker™ is Stemilt’s fruit category management and consumer insight Stemilt U Online program and provides you with: Join us virtually to become an expert • Regular emails with new episodes of on Stemilt apples! Fast Facts: The Cast to share our • Ideal way to train your entire produce analysis of the latest Nielsen data team on apples • Analysis of the data that you • Earn a Stemilt certificate after provide to Nielsen or Stemilt completing the course • Insights on apple and pear purchase preferences through consumer surveys that we conduct Crunch Circle Our monthly eNewsletter for your dietitian team includes: • Social Media Tips 36 Seconds • Recipes This email video series helps • Digital Toolkits you stay up to date on all things • Fruit Health Promotion Strategies Stemilt in just 36 Seconds. Grocery Pick-Up & Delivery Our brands and packaged programs are proven items to Famous Finds sell online. We can help build your online item with: Find out the hidden gems in our apple • Product Descriptors • Keywords and pear manifest in this email video series. • Photos Delight The Consumer
We’re Supporting The Brands You Carry
Public Relations We build our brands through national and regional consumer PR activities to support trial at your stores. PR outreach includes: • Curated boxes shared regularly with media and food influencers • Experiential in-market or digital campaigns to earn media and social impressions
The Stem Blog Written by our resident fruit experts, The Stem is our long-time blog about all things fruit: Consumer Offers • Fruit Recipes From cooking masterclasses to simple • Snack Ideas snack recipe videos, our quarterly digital • How To’s offers follow consumer trends and help • Nutrition and Health inspire shoppers to eat more apples and pears.
Stemilt.com Our website was built to share the farm to fork experience with consumers, including: • Apple & Pear Variety Information Pip the Chatbot • Fruit Recipes Stemilt.com now comes with a friendly virtual • Nutrition & Health Benefits assistant to answer top consumer questions • Organic Farming about our fruits. Responsible Choice®
Our Sustainability Roots Run Deep
Stemilt’s Promise Stemilt founder Tom Mathison started Responsible Choice® in 1989. Today, it’s how Stemilt stewards an environmentally sustainable and socially responsible business. Responsible Choice® initiatives align with Stemilt’s core values and have three focus areas: people, planet, and profits.
Fun Fact Did you know the ladybug is a well-known beneficial insect for orchards? Tom Mathison added the ladybug to our company logo in 1989 to tell the world of his promise to always make the responsible choice when growing/packing fruit! Responsible Choice®
Our Sustainablility Roots Run Deep
People • Company paid on-site health clinic (with pharmacy services) is run by our local hospital for all full-time employees and their dependents to access • Three on-site company paid health clinics at company orchards • Stemilt Café offers subsidized meals to employees during work hours • Stemilt sponsored college scholarship program awarded by the Washington Apple Education Foundation • Permanent orchard housing offers modern kitchens, laundry, living amenities, and rec space for our H2A harvest crews • Comprehensive benefit and 401k retirement programs that includes free consultation programs • Cultivando Excelencia / Nurture Greatness program focuses on culture, training, and development of our team members
Planet • Integrated pest management orchard programs • Natural bird deterrents (trained falcons, kestrel houses) to reduce bird damage to fruit • Zero waste approach in packing plants through a recycling / reuse plan that includes cardboard, metals, plastics, equipment, and green waste • Stemilt’s World Famous Compost Farm collects green waste from our orchards, local packing plants and the community to feed 1,500+ acres of orchards • LED lighting, motion detector switching, robotic doors and electrical power usage reduction programs • Distribution Center solar panels provide power assistance to our facilities
Profit • Computer modeling programs to maximize packaging needs to reduce line run times and achieve freshness • Pack scheduling that maximizes labor and asset management • Storage strategy that ties horticulture and sales together to store products • Fuel purchase program that controls vehicle fuel costs • New packing lines and distribution center technology to reduce labor and create efficiencies • Kaizen model for continuous improvement to increase efficiencies across the company