Processing, packing, cooperatives and markets · operation or company
Peace River Citrus Products
the Heartland's operating juice plant
- Founded
- 1991
- Evidence class
- publicly verified operating
- Place
- Arcadia, DeSoto County, and Bartow
- District
- Peace River valley
- Status as of 12 September 2026
- Operating; the Arcadia and Bartow plants carry a combined capacity around 20 million boxes.
- Connections
- 4 edges, 4 distinct neighbours · betweenness 0.226 (rank 4 of 243) · location and lineage only 0.000 (rank 96) · outside share 0.75
- Confidence
- High · sources: [JAX23] [CFDCP] (register)
Bill Becker starts the company in 1991; it processes at Arcadia and expands at Bartow from 2002, holds a renewed ten year Coca-Cola contract, makes Minute Maid orange juice for McDonald's and supplies Tropicana [CFDCP][JAX23].
Connections
Location and lineage
- tied venture or seatArcadiathe Heartland's operating juice plant1991 to present
Collaboration
- collaborationCoca-Cola and Minute Maida renewed ten year contract for Minute Maid and Simply products2020s
- collaborationTropicanareceives juice and byproductsongoing
- collaborationMcDonald'smakes the chain's Minute Maid orange juice for the United States and Canada2020s