MBG Marketing
MBG Marketing offers its blueberry growers unprecedented service and support in meeting the challenges of the 21st century food industry. n addition to expert sales and marketing under the globally recognized brand, a strong team of tenured professionals offers our grower-owners local assistance in everything from field scouting and pest management; to yield estimating, pack planning, and quality assurance programs; to food safety and social responsibility training; to packaging, packing, and processing expertise; and to innovative technology and traceability programs. The cooperative model of "operating at cost" affords MBG's members a competitive advantage in a rapidly expanding industry, and our cash advance and payment programs have stood the test of time for 79 years! MBG Marketing, along with its grower-owners, is one of four (4) owner-partners actively directing and benefiting from Naturipe Farms' "Win Every Day" berry marketing strategy. Naturipe is the world's leading marketer of top-quality fresh and value-added processed berries, with significant business relationships with all top-tier customers of blueberries. To better understand our international Naturipe family of grower-owned organizations, please see the diagram below: The cooperative leads the industry with personalized horticultural services specializing in strategic pest management protocols and increasing yields with sustainable best practice solutions. MBG is also actively developing new proprietary blueberry varieties in its member-owned breeding program, making new cultivars available exclusively to MBG members and partner producers. MBG's own internally developed innovative information technology applications for field, harvest, and inventory management - continuously evolving with the feedback of our grower users - allows for full traceability from the field to the end consumer and is the envy of the industry. Additionally, new value-added capacities continue to be developed to serve our members' needs. And finally, we are well known industry leaders in both food safety and social responsibility initiatives, always prepared to meet our customers' requirements in these arenas; and serving our local communities as good neighbors, giving back to those who serve us.