Transportation Savings and Convenience
CCH has the best distribution location in the business. Our Riverside plant is less than a mile from Highway 91, and we have freeway access to the North, South, East and West. Because we are East of the main population centers, truckers can avoid much of the rush hour traffic that affects Southern California. Follow this link for easy directions to our facilities.

We offer one convenient stop for your truckers to pick up lemons, oranges and grapefruit instead of going to multiple packing houses, for significant savings in both time and money.
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State of the Art Packing Facilities
As one of the larger independent citrus packing houses in California, we have about 4 acres under roof on a 20 acre site. Our facilities feature state of the art packing equipment including electronic grading and advanced computer controlled optic and sizer/sorter/counter equipment and packing machines. CCH and FMC Corporation just installed completely new stainless steel wash beds and wax applicators on all our processing lines, combined with new high pressure washers on our orange/grapefruit packing line, to insure that our fruit is the best it can be. Our bagging machinery can quickly process bag orders for our customers who prefer the convenience of retail-ready bagged product.

Our modern radio-frequency controlled bar coding system lets our Sales Department know exactly how much fruit of what kind is in inventory. Packing House Managers can see how a load of fruit is packing out on a real time basis, for timely field harvesting decisions and prompt order fulfillment. We map our cold storage rooms, and our fleet of forklifts have radio frequency equipped IBM terminals which tell our mainframe computer exactly where each pallet has been placed. When combined with our ability to print a smart pick list when a trucker signs in, our inventory control ensures that the correct order will always be loaded onto the truck quickly.

Our computerized inventory control system gives us real time control from field harvesting to precise location of orders, with an average age of fruit in inventory of 2 to 3 days. Our export orders are precooled prior to shipping and are usually shipped no later than one day after packing.
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Exemplary Customer Service
CCH is committed to providing our buyers the best quality of fruit possible. Our over 600 members, many of whom are 3rd and 4th generation growers, bring a wealth of experience to CCH in all phases of the growing process. Our professional staff has well over 100 years combined experience in marketing citrus. Our Sales Department will be happy to answer any questions for you.
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Financial Stability
CCH has no debt and pays out pools faster than any packing house in the industry. We insure the majority of our Accounts Receivable and have a collection rate of over 99.9% of fruit sold. The following financial information from the Produce Reporter Co. Blue Book gives an indication of our solid financial footing.

We have an excellent relationship with many juicing companies. Because we are a grower/member owned cooperative, we make packing decisions based on what will return the most money to the grower – not on how much money the packing house can make packing fruit that might have been more profitable processed for juice.

CCH has had record patronage dividends for the past five years. To the nearest $100,000, they were $1.3 million (1997), $1.7 million (1998), $3.1 million (1999), $2.0 million (2000), and $1.6 million (2001). This represented an average patronage dividend of 34 cents per carton in 1997, 37 cents per carton in 1998, 62 cents per carton in 1999, 47 cents per carton in 2000, and 33 cents per carton in 2001. This was in addition to very high returns from pool closings.

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Responsive Grower Service
CCH’s Field Department knows our grower’s groves and interacts daily with Sales so they have a full knowledge of market conditions and pricing and can make critical decisions in a timely manner.

We keep a detailed list, by block, of number of trees, total acres and yield estimates by variety. This data is constantly updated on our mainframe computer and gives our management real time knowledge of what is available for harvest, where it is and of what quality. This lets us match harvesting to buyer orders so that we can pick at a time that will return the most money to the grower.

We represent a broad spectrum of growers, from those farming 20 acres or less to those farming hundreds of acres. And each grower, regardless of size, can count on the same efficient service and attention to detail.