The company packages, and distributes avocados and other fruits, as well as their fresh prepared food to restaurants, stores, and individual customers worldwide.

Calavo Growers was established in 1924 as an agricultural cooperative and was instrumental in launching the California avocado industry.

[7] In the early 1930s, the cooperative increased its offerings to include limes, coconuts, kiwis, mangos and persimmons.

[7] The California Avocado Advisory board was created in 1961; Calavo played a key role in its creation and development.

In 2002, Calavo Growers Inc. was designated the ticker symbol CVGW on the NASDAQ National Market System.

The seats on the company's board of directors were filled mainly with longtime avocado growers, and that remains so today.