Information

  • 1802 C St (Mailing: PO Box 1768)
  • Sacramento Proceesing Plant & Business HQ
  • Sacramento, CA 95811
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  • bluediamond.com

Blue Diamond Growers are a Sacramento, Calif.-based non-profit, grower-owned cooperative of more than 3,000 almond growers. The co-op is the the world’s leading processor and marketer of almonds.

Founded in 1910 as the California Almond Growers Exchange, the Exchange opened a new receiving and packaging plant in Sacramento in 1914 that eventually became the largest almond processing plant in the world. Today, the plant sits on 90 acres, covering 33 city blocks and serves at the cooperative’s headquarters.

Blue Diamond markets and sells a wide range of almond-based snacks, beverages . . .

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Expertise
  • Almonds
  • Food & Beverage
Additional Offices / Facilities
  • Salida Processing Plant
  • 4800 Sisk Rd
  • Salida, CA 95356
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  • Turlock Processing Plant
  • 1300 N Washington Rd
  • Turlock, CA 95380

Ownership / Management

Board of Directors
DC
Board Chair, District 1 (Chico, Calif.)

Dan Cummings

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Director, District 2 (Arbuckle, Calif.)

John Monroe

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Vice Chair, District 3 (Ripon, Calif.)

Dale Van Groningen

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Director, District 4 (Ripon/Escalon, Calif.)

Kevin Fondse

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Director, District 5 (Modesto/Ripon, Calif.)

Stephen Van Duyn

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Director, District 6 (Turlock, Calif.)

Charles, III Crivelli

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Director, District 7 (Winton, Calif.)

Dan Mendenhall

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Director, District 8 (Fresno, Calif.)

George Goshgarian

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Director, District 9 (Arvin, Calif.)

Kent Stenderup

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JH
Director-at-Large (Monterey, Calif.)

Joe Huston

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Director-at-Large (El Dorado Hills, Calif.)

Don Yee

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Key Decision Makers
MJ
President & CEO

Mark Jansen

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CFO

Dean LaVallee

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SVP & General Counsel

Simone Denny

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SVP, Global Manufacturing Operations

Brian Barczak

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SVP, Global Ingredients

Bill Morecraft

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RJ
SVP, Global Consumer

Raj Joshi

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SVP, Global Supply Chain

Ken Lehman

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VP, Human Resources

Michele Riddle

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Personnel

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Director, Member Relations

Mel Machado

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Director, Corporate Communications

Lynn Machon

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Current Work Relationships

Teams