Posts by William Burton
Lone Star Citrus

Located in the heart of the Texas Citrus industry in Mission, Texas, Lone Star Citrus Growers is a vertically integrated grower, packer, marketer, juicer and shipper of world-famous Texas red grapefruit and sweet, juicy oranges. Independently owned and operated since 2007, their state of art processing plant utilizes the latest in harvesting, accounting, traceability and processing technology to ensure that they are always operating at peak efficiencies.

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4Earth

4 Earth Farms are one of the largest produce handlers in Southern California. Vertically integrated from farm to plate managing a wide range of commodities and products, providing valued added packing, consolidation and distribution services to a very diverse national and local customer base.

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Worldwide Fruit

Worldwide Fruit Limited (WFL) is an international fruit marketing and distribution company that specializes chiefly in the supply of apples, pears and avocados to major UK multiple retailers. It also handles a range of stone fruit, summer fruits and kiwifruit sourced from growers…

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Berry Gardens

Berry Gardens is the UK’s leading berry and stone fruit production and marketing group with sales in 2010 of $297 million, a market share in excess of 40% during the UK season and a year round business supplying all of Britain’s leading retailers…

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Karsten

Karsten UK is one of the newer users of Prophet’s Pr2 supply chain management software, having gone live just eight months ago. Managing director Herman Engelbrecht is happy with progress to date and has plans to ramp up his company’s use of the system’s functionality over…

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Butters Group

Founded in 1973 as a family run business, Keith Butters Limited traded principally as suppliers of indoor and outdoor plants to UK Garden Centres. The business developed by focusing on the supply of plants to the major high street supermarkets and DIY outlets, as well as leading on-line retailers…

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Greencell

Greencell, now part of the Westfalia Group of companies, is an experienced supplier of fresh fruit and vegetables to the UK market. The company sells more than six million packages a year, to more than 200 customers, and sources fruit from over 30 countries, across five…

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Richard Hochfeld Group

Richard Hochfeld Ltd is one of the UK’s leading importers and distributors of fresh produce. It has been proactive in recent years in re-evaluating its business model and adapting to the changing needs and demands of the UK market…

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Turners

Turners PPL is a third party fruit processor, grading and packing facilitator for companies that provide a service to the major retailers and wholesale sectors. It has grown to producing 30,000 cases a day…

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Safpro

QX user Safpro was one of the original South African fruit exporters that helped Prophet SA to spec its system with regular feedback…

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H L Hall & Sons Ltd

A subsidiary of the fourth-generation family-owned H L Hall and Sons Holdings Limited, HL Hall & Sons Ltd has a long and respected history of business activity in Mpumalanga, South Africa…

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Market Demand Fruits

Technology has been central to Market Demand Fruits’ business. Since implementing Prophet’s QX system in 2006, the company has reduced operator intervention significantly and upped turnover…

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Damco

For more than 20 years, Damco has been providing customers with transportation and logistics solutions, wherever they are in the world. From single shipments to integrated supply chain management, the company does it all…

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Freshworld

When Freshworld – based in Stellenbosch, Western Cape in South Africa – started focusing on integrated information systems in 2005, the company undertook considerable research and assessed all its options…

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Sapex

When Stellenbosch-based fruit exporter Sapex was considering software for its operations, the company settled on Prophet QX quite easily after receiving positive feedback from other exporters and producers…

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The Class Produce Group

The Class Produce Group (CPG) is a family-owned fresh produce wholesale and distribution business based in Baltimore, in the Mid-Atlantic region of the USA. Established as a traditional wholesale business 70 years ago, the company moved out of the Maryland Wholesale…

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