Willamette Valley Fruit Company

WVFC packages an average of 11 million pounds of fruit each year during the summers, contracting with growers from farms near the production facility.

This allowed fruit to be sold to a variety of end users from concentrators (for juices) to poly-baggers.

In 2000, WVFC purchased a local pie company called LaSuisse Specialty Foods, Inc., started by a neighbor.

The pies were known through the local area for being high quality and handmade with natural ingredients and were being retailed in a Salem grocery chain, Roth's Fresh Markets.

In late spring of 2003, the pie production moved from roughly a 400-square-foot (37 m2) space to a new building on the same property totaling over 4,000 square feet (370 m2).