Meet Our Strategic Suppliers
DAYKA & HACKETT LLC. USA
We are a grower owned and operated company located in the heart of Central California.
We are vertically integrated in the sense that we manage the supply chain from the farm through packing, cooling, marketing and logistics.
We are focused on creating a team-based environment to achieve goals we have set forth.
We are focused on selecting varieties with the best flavor profile and our seasoned field representatives make sure we are harvesting fruit at its optimum maturity.
We are consumer driven. Feedback from the end consumer is highly important to us and embraced to see where we can improve.
We are passionate about fresh fruit and about the details. We travel throughout the world regularly to explore new ideas and improve the value we deliver to our customers and the consumer.
We are Dayka & Hackett.
BC TREE FRUITS COOPERATIVE CANADA
Fruit has been a part of the Okanagan Valley for as long as anyone can remember.
The idea of the orchard was brought into the area in 1862 and since then Okanagan fruit has been constantly improving and growing throughout the region. The numerous climates within the region provide ideal growing conditions for our delicious and pristine fruits. Since 1936, we’ve helped to promote not just British Columbia’s amazing apples, but also pears, cherries, apricots, peaches, prune plums and nectarines. In addition to our amazing tree fruits, we also grow table grapes and blueberries!
With three packing facilities and six receiving facilities, BC Tree Fruits has the expertise both in the orchards through the grower members and in the packing facilities through state-of-the-art packing lines and storage capabilities. The BC Tree Fruits leaf guarantees flavourful food grown close to home using natural and sustainable methods —this is about as local and fresh as it gets.
Our 400 plus local grower families work together in the BC Tree Fruits cooperative as part of a larger community. Each grower nurtures their orchards to create the best possible fruit, and is responsible for the care, picking of and transporting of nature’s candy to BC Tree Fruits. The industry professional side of BC Tree Fruits provides expertise in promoting, packaging and transporting the brand to customers. Each person within the cooperative is a part of the bigger picture and plays an important role in providing you with the fruits you love.
As an innovative company, BC Tree Fruits is constantly working to improve the quality of the fruit our growers produce. This includes assistance with sales, marketing, accounting, technology, shipping and regulation compliance. We ensure that growers have state of the art equipment, are replacing trees and varieties when needed, and are always taking steps forward to better serve our customers.
In addition to being behind the tree fruits you know and love, BC Tree Fruits owns and operates BC Tree Fruits Cider Company, Grower's Supply Company and a fresh produce market in Kelowna.
KL INTERFOOD THAILAND
K.L. Interfood Co., Ltd. and K.C. Food & Beverage Co., Ltd. are the world’s largest group of companies that manufacture and export of all kind of tamarind products worldwide. In the year 2000, the founder discovered the uniqueness sweet taste of Thai tamarind fruits. We first introduced Thai sweet tamarind to the United States of America, followed by France as well as many other countries.
In the beginning, customers did not believe that the sweetness of Thai tamarind is natural taste. They thought that we put the artificial sweetness into tamarind. The sweetness and special aroma of Thai tamarind are due to the geographic of Phetchabun province. Tamarind trees planted in this area give natural sweet taste and special aroma. Until now, it is our pride that we can successfully promote this special delicious Thai sweet tamarind to more than 40 counties around the world.
Phetchabun province has its geographic compositions and topographic with steep terrain upland and lowland with mountains and forest. The weather varies throughout the year with cold in winter and warm in summer. In ancient time, this area was covered with volcano mountains, many of which erupted to produce volcanic ash and lava making this land riches with minerals. It is the only geographic and original place in the world that suitable for plantation of sweet tamarind trees giving the tamarind fruits with sweet flavor and high nutrition that cannot be found anywhere else in the world.