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Del Monte Fresh Produce

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Where they make it

1 facility

Michoacán, Mexico avocado production region →

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Michoacán · manufacturing

The Purépecha Plateau region of Michoacán, Mexico (Uruapan, Tancítaro, Peribán municipalities) produces approximately 44% of world avocado supply and 73% of Mexico's avocado output. Mexico supplies 88% of US avocado imports, meaning this single Mexican state produces the majority of avocados consumed in the United States. The region was the sole USDA-authorized avocado export origin to the US from the late 1990s until Jalisco was added in July 2022. Michoacán's avocado industry (Hass variety primarily) operates year-round at altitude 1,500-2,400m; the Purépecha Plateau's climate produces the highest-quality Hass avocados. The region is also heavily affected by the Knights Templar and CJNG cartels, which have extorted producers, taxed shipments, and threatened USDA inspection personnel. Source: USDA FAS Mexico Avocado Annual 2024 — https://apps.fas.usda.gov/newgainapi/api/Report/DownloadReportByFileName?fileName=Avocado+Annual_Mexico+City_Mexico_MX2024-0018.pdf

What else they do

Business segments

The company's full revenue map, where this supply-chain role fits within their broader business.

  • Fresh and Value-Added Products

    61%

  • Banana

    35%

  • Packaged Foods & Canned Goods

    3%

  • Third-Party Logistics (Tricont / Network Shipping)

    3%

  • Poultry & Meat Processing (Jordan)

    1%

  • Packaging Manufacturing (Envaco)

    1%

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What's known

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  • Did you know2025

    Fresh Del Monte Produce — publicly known as a banana and pineapple company — operates a full poultry and meat processing facility in Jordan, producing fresh and frozen whole chicken, chicken cutups, and specialty meat products for Middle Eastern markets. This operation appears in FDP's 10-K under 'Other Products and Services' with minimal disclosure, making it effectively invisible to investors and analysts who track FDP as a fresh fruit company. A produce company holding a meat processing facility in Jordan is structurally similar to the Ajinomoto/semiconductor pattern: food company, unexpected industrial operation, different supply chain entirely.

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  • Origin2026

    The Del Monte brand was unified under one corporate parent for decades, then fragmented across three independent companies after leveraged buyouts in the 1980s: Fresh Del Monte Produce (fresh fruit, NYSE: FDP), Del Monte Foods (canned goods, private), and Del Monte Pacific (Asia-Pacific). In March 2026, Fresh Del Monte completed a $285M acquisition of Del Monte Foods' US canned and packaged assets — including the Del Monte®, S&W®, and Contadina® brands — reunifying fresh and preserved produce under one owner for the first time in roughly 40 years.

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