Peace River Citrus

Peace River diligently focuses on forecasting and understanding market trends, customer needs and consumer preferences. Because of this, Peace River's business has grown and thrived steadily over the past 30 years. In 2002, the original plant in Arcadia, Florida was not sufficient enough for all of Peace River's production needs so a second plant was added in Bartow, Florida for processing grapefruit and mandarin varieties. Combined, the total annual fruit processing capacity is 20 million boxes. In 2003, Peace River, which had previously only purchased oranges for processing from other citrus growers, purchased through an affiliated entity its first orange grove in Basinger, Florida, and has since acquired two more groves in the Sunshine State located in Ona and Lake Livingston. Peace River is now developing a new 2,500 acre grove in Hardee County. In 2009, the company expanded into packaging for frozen retail and food service customers, adding a new operation in LaBelle, Florida. A storage and distribution facility located in Frostproof Florida was acquired to provide additional frozen storage and distribution capability. Peace River has further diversified its product mix by adding to its not from concentrate storage capabilities at both its Arcadia and Bartow facilities. Today Peace River has over 20 million gallons of not-from-concentrate juice storage to compliment its concentrate storage capacity of 21 million gallons.