Blue Diamond...The First Name in Almonds 

• First grower-owned cooperative for marketing almonds.
• First to develop and build a commercial sheller, size grader and continuous blanching line for almonds.
• First to adopt electronic sorting machines.
• First to design and build commercial splitting, slivering and dicing machines for almonds.
• First to develop a market for California almonds in over 90 countries.

Blue Diamond® Growers

Blue Diamond® Growers is the world's largest tree nut processing and marketing company. Founded in 1910, the cooperative is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2010. Blue Diamond® led the development of California's almond industry from a minor domestic specialty crop to the world leader in almond production and marketing. We continue to build markets and create new products, new uses, and new opportunities for members of Blue Diamond® Growers.

Headquartered in Sacramento, California, approximately 3000 California almond growers deliver California almonds annually to their cooperative. The crop is marketed to all 50 states and more than 90 foreign countries, making almonds California's largest food export, and the sixth largest U.S. food export. The California crop is valued annually at over $2 billion dollars.