Vero Beach loses link to citrus past as original store closes on US 1
Poinsettia Groves, which opened a packinghouse on U.S. 1 in 1947 before focusing on catalog orders, will close its store to focus on online orders.
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Florida citrus packinghouse sold
Florida citrus packinghouse sold Indian River Exchange Packers (IREP) on Jan. 8 sold its Vero Beach, Florida, packinghouse to Diamond Drinks, a Pennsylvania drink manufacturing firm. The sales price was $4.5 million. “Diamond Drinks will convert the packinghouse into a private drink mixing and bottling company,” said IREP President George Hamner. “They will also extrude and sell plastic bottles.” IREP plans to continue packing fruit at the packinghouse until early March, “then move people and fruit to Egan Fruit Packing out in Fellsmere to finish the season,” Hamner said. “I wil...
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