SANTIAGO, Chile – Sun World International, LLC is expanding its presence in South America and, in order to accommodate that expansion, has named well-respected Chilean grape breeder and agronomist Carolina Uquillas to manage its fruit licensing business throughout Brazil, Chile and Peru.
Uquillas assumes responsibilities for managing all of Sun World’s growing South American activities. She joined Sun World January 13, 2014 and will be based at the California company’s Santiago, Chile office, Executive Vice President David Marguleas announced this week.
"South America is an essential southern hemisphere production region for our international licensing business and for quality-minded supermarket retailers seeking differentiated varieties,” Marguleas noted. “Carolina brings keen knowledge of variety development and best production practices as well as an appreciation for what brands and unique varieties can accomplish for progressive grower-marketers,” he added./p>
For the past six years Uquillas led the Chilean government’s INIA grape breeding program where she had responsibility for developing new varieties, designing crosses and evaluating selections as well as assisting with the commercialization of varieties.
In addition to licensing its fruit varieties to producers throughout South America, Sun World has licensed leading Chilean fruit marketing companies including Subsole, Unifrutti, Gesex, Frutera Santa Maria, Dole, Tuniche and Agricom as well as Peruvian counterparts such as Camposol and Agricola Don Ricardo and Brazilian marketers such as VDS, Special Fruit, COANA and Expofruit.
Sun World is one of the United States’ leading producers and marketers of fresh fruit and operates one of the world’s largest table grape and stonefruit breeding programs. Since its inception in the mid-1970s, the Company’s Variety Development Center has released more than 90 varieties with improved flavor, size, color, shelf-life and extended seasonality. In addition to production on its own California farms, Sun World licenses producers to grow its proprietary varieties in North America, Europe, South America, Australia, the Middle East and South Africa.
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Source: Sun World International
