Setton International Foods Expanding
March 20, 2013 | 1 min to read
Terra Bella’s largest employer and largest company is getting even larger.
Lee Cohen, CEO of Setton International Foods, Inc., said the company has broken ground on a large warehouse with plans to add more processing to the ever-expanding plant in downtown Terra Bella.
“Our growth is at the same rate as the whole industry,” said Cohen of the pistachio industry, adding, “growth is primarily a function of a larger crop.”
Pistachio growth has been phenomenal over the past decade. In Tulare County alone, the number of harvested acres of pistachios has grown from 10,345 acres in 2002 to 29,600 acres in 2011.
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