Northland Juices

Northland Juices is a division of Apple & Eve, a juice company based in Port Washington, New York, United States. Apple & Eve,[1] founded by president Gordon Crane in 1975, is one of the largest privately held juice companies in the U.S.

Northland Cranberries Logo

Company history

Apple & Eve L.L.C is a privately held company specializing in 100 percent juice and organic juice products. In 1983, Northland Cranberries, Inc. launched its brand of 100% juice cranberry blends in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, sold through supermarkets, drug store chains, mass merchandisers and food service outlets throughout the United States.

Publicly owned since 1987, Northland Cranberries, Inc.'s branded juice division was acquired by Apple & Eve in 2005[2] becoming the largest independently owned juice company in the U.S.[3] Apple and Eve was acquired in 2014 by Lassonde Industries.[4]

Community involvement

In the U.S., Northland Juices participates in an annual program called "Drink To Pink" to raise money for breast cancer research. Northland Juices donates 10 cents for each bottle of Northland Dark Fruit Blends bought by consumers redeeming special coupons on purchase. A minimum of $50,000 is donated to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation each year. By March 2011, over $450,000 had been raised.[5][6][1]

More recent updates put the total raised at over $850,000.[7]

References
  1. "Support Research for Breast Cancer Gets Personal for Industry." Retrieved 2021-08-30.
  2. "Apple & Eve buys Northland Cranberries Inc.'s juice division". AllBusiness.com.
  3. "Apple & Eve: Good to the Core". Beverage World.
  4. "Lassonde Industries Inc. to acquire U.S. branded juice company Apple & Eve, LLC of Port Washington, New York in a US$150.0 million transaction". Lassonde. 2014-07-04. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
  5. "Northland 100% Cranberry Juice Blends". The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
  6. "Price Chopper to Take Part in Northland's 'Drink to Pink' Program". Progressive Grocer. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
  7. "The Northland Juices Drink to Pink Cause Marketing Campaign benefits BCRF". Retrieved 28 January 2021.
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