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Monterey Mushrooms, Inc. was established in 1971 as a family- owned and operated farm in Royal Oaks, California. Today, Monterey is vertically integrated and able to control all aspects of mushroom production from seed to customer/consumer. An international, multi-facility company, with 10 mushroom growing farms strategically located throughout North America - Monterey's mushrooms are literally "locally grown" nationwide. This means that Monterey is uniquely positioned to deliver the best, most innovative mushroom products possible to consumers throughout the country.

Monterey is the country’s largest and only national marketer of fresh mushrooms, supplying unique, innovative and high quality products for sale to supermarkets, foodservice and ingredient manufacture operations, and for preparation of processed, canned, and frozen mushroom products. Headquartered in Watsonville, California, Monterey has production, sales and administrative offices, internationally.


 


 

The Process Group is a leading manufacturer of foodservice/ingredient canned stems and pieces, jarred marinated for club stores and continues to develop its canned and frozen specialty business for the foodservice and retail-deli trades.

Monterey's International Group includes fresh growing facilities and a retail processing operation that offers canned and jarred mushroom products packed under the Monterey or private label brands.

Monterey’s wholly-owned affiliate, Champinones San Miguel, operates the single largest mushroom growing operation in Mexico and one of the largest in North America.  Champinones San Miguel is one of the largest suppliers of fresh mushrooms to the Mexican market as well as a supplier of canned mushrooms in North America and Central America.

Monterey’s BioTechnical Group includes the Amycel & Spawn Mate companies which produce and sell mushroom spawn and nutritional growing supplements & activators to mushroom growers of worldwide. Amycel is a major supplier of spawn. Spawn Mate pioneered the supplement business. Amycel and Spawn Mate are the principal marketers of specialized mushroom growing supplements and spawn in the North American industry and their products are also marketed throughout the world. Monterey’s success in consistently producing high quality fresh mushrooms is the foundation of the company’s successful processed mushroom products.

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