Traverse Bay Farms / Fruit Advantage Announces Strategy to Combat Imported Cherries From China, Turkey and Poland

It’s official… Ultra inexpensive cherries imported from other countries including China, Poland and Turkey offers a challenge to Michigan-based Traverse Bay Farms. The company offers a number of nationally award-winning cherry-based products including its cherry barbecue sauce, cherry poppyseed salad dressing and cherry salsa. Each has received a national award from the largest and most competitive food competition in America. In addition to offering cherry-based gourmet food products, Traverse Bay Farms,  has a number of other products made with as much local produce as possible including:

• Corn Salsa
• Montmorency Cherry Juice Concentrate
• Peach Salsa
• Apple Barbecue Sauce
• Strawberry Poppyseed Dressing
• No-Added Sugar Dried Cherries
• And more…

According to Andy LaPointe, Director of Marketing, with Traverse Bay Farms, “Since starting in 2001, our mission is to provide all-natural fruit-based health products and great tasting products that our customers can enjoy with every meal of the day. And we’re striving toward that mission every day. We have the Michigan Tart Cherry Juice Concentrate for natural relief for arthritis pain and the tart cherry capsules. And that’s why we also have dried cherries our customers can enjoy in their breakfast oatmeal. Our cherry poppyseed dressing can be enjoyed on a salad during lunch. Our cherry or red raspberry salsa, can be enjoyed with tortilla chips or a Mexican meal.”

Accorded to published reports from US government international trade agencies and/or industry trade journals, the Turkish government, for example, heavily subsidizes its cherry industry. This means they can ship their cherries across the oceans and still under local cherry farmers and cherry companies, like Traverse Bay Farms. However, unlike the USA, other countries may not have as stringent growing, production and shipping practices. This may mean lower quality products for the end consumer.

Mr. LaPointe continued, “The way we are fighting these unfair trade practices is to let our customers know where know where our cherries come from. We can walk right down the right and see the cherries harvested from the trees. Those same cherries are sold in our two retail stores. We have a treasure in our location of being in the heart of Northern Michigan cherry country.”

For more information about Traverse Bay Farms and their products, visit their site at www.traversebayfarms.com.

About Traverse Bay Farms/Fruit Advantage:

Traverse Bay Farms/Fruit Advantage has won 30+ national food awards at America’s largest and most competitive food competitions. They are the #1 nationally award winning superfruit brand in America. They offer cherry juice concentrate, dried tart cherries and more. It is headquartered in Bellaire, MI and has products distributed in over five countries across the globe and 42 States domestically in the United States.

About Traverse Bay Farms / Fruit Advantage

Winner of 38+ national food awards at America’s largest and most competitive food competitions. Traverse Bay Farms is the #1 award winning super fruit company in America.

Offering an all-natural line of fruit salsa, fruit barbecue, dried fruit including dried cherries, dried blueberries and more. In addition, Traverse Bay Farms offers cherry juice concentrate and teaches about health benefits of cherry juice.

Fruit Advantage is the sister brand an offers a complete line of condition-specific, fruit-based supplements including tart cherry capsules, blueberry capsules, pomegranate capsules. In addition, Fruit Advantage offers a patented formula combining tart cherries with glucosamine and chondriotin. This one-of-a-kind supplement is called Cherry Prime – Complete Muscle and Joint Complex.