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    | The California Avocado Growers Exchange is founded as a grower-member-owned cooperative. Packing volume is approximately 180,000 pounds.
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 | As the result of a national naming contest, the Avocado Growers Exchange becomes Calavo.
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 | Calavo builds its first grower-owned packinghouse in Vernon, California.
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 | Calavo diversifies its product line with limes and avocado oil, the Company’s first processed food.
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| Calavo makes its first “Million Dollar Return” to grower-members.
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| Calavo now has 31 sales offices nationwide.
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| Calavo acquires a packinghouse in Escondido, California, which operates until 1988.
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| Calavo begins marketing papaya under the Calavo Gold name. The product line now includes coconuts, mangoes, kiwifruit, persimmons and Asian pears under a variety of product names.
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 | Calavo breaks ground of its Santa Paula packinghouse, which is still used as a primary packing facility today.
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| Calavo acquires Frigid Foods in Escondido, California.
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| Markets expand internationally, beginning with Japan.
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| Calavo launches its first processed consumer product, a one pound can of “Avocado Dip” (guacamole).
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 | Calavo celebrates its 50th anniversary with building of a new processing plant in Santa Paula, California. Sales top $25 million.
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| Calavo opens its first automated facility in Temecula, CA. Corporate headquarters move to Santa Ana, California, halfway between Temecula and Santa Paula.
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 | Gross sales exceed $150 million.
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| Calavo opens packinghouse in Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico, from which avocados are exported to Japan, Europe, and Canada.
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| Member-shareholders vote overwhelmingly to convert to for-profit status, paving the way for Calavo to become a publicly traded company.
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| Calavo shares are listed and begin trading publicly over the NASDAQ Market System under the ticker symbol CVGW.
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| Calavo acquires Maui Fresh International Inc., a multi-product specialty produce distributor.
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| Calavo celebrates its 80th Anniversary with the opening of a new 90,000-plus square foot production facility in Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico. The Company introduces ultra-high pressure guacamole products into the marketplace and begins sourcing avocados from the Dominican Republic. Calavo now number 2,300, and annual packing volume exceeds152 million pounds.
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| Calavo Growers, Inc. announces equity cross-investments with Limoneira Company, one of the industry’s largest avocado growers. Calavo relocates its corporate headquarters to offices on the Limoneira Ranch in Santa Paula, California.
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| Calavo opens three Value Added Depots – California, New Jersey, and Texas to service customers with ProRipeVIP® avocados. Partners with Platinum Produce to form Maui Fresh International, located in the Los Angeles terminal market.
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