Leichtfuss, of Fillmore, has served as an alternate member to the Sunkist Board since 2000. He is vice president of Villa Park Orchards and manager of Villa Park Citrus Exchange. He is also a board member of Agricultural Producers.Stewart A. Resnick is chairman and owner of Roll International Corporation, a California-based holding company. Resnick has developed and owns a number of successful companies including The Franklin Mint, the world’s largest direct marketer of collectibles; Teleflora, the largest floral clearinghouse service in the U.S.; Paramount Farming Company, the largest producer of almonds and pistachios; Paramount Farms, Inc., the largest pistachio processor company and one of the major almond processors in the world; and Paramount Citrus Company, California’s largest grower of citrus products.Resnick acquired Paramount Citrus in 1981, and during the past two decades it has grown to become the largest integrated grower and packer of citrus in California, owning and farming approximately 20,000 acres of navel and Valencia oranges, lemons and other citrus varieties in the San Joaquin Valley and Ventura County. Paramount Citrus also packs fresh fruit for other Sunkist growers through its five California packinghouses, and performs farm management for approximately 15,000 acres of citrus, nuts and olives through its S & J Ranch Farm Management Subsidiary.Bringing the Sunkist Board total to 27 are: Lee C. Bailey of Orange Cove, California; John W. Borchard, Jr. of Somis; Nicholas L. Bozick of Mecca; Allen A. Dangermond of Redlands; Dan S. Dunlap of Thermal; Martha L. Gentry of Fillmore; James H. Gill of Camarillo; Mark D. Gillette of Dinuba; Dexter J. Goodell of Santa Barbara; David W. Krause of Delano; James H. Mast of Mesa, Arizona; Samuel G. Mayhew of Oxnard; Tom L. Mazzetti of Riverside; Martin Mittman of Porterville; Dick Neece of Porterville Robert A. Neilson of La Cañada; Cecilia A. Perry of Yuma, Arizona; James S. Phillips of Delano; Kevin R. riddle of Orosi; Pierre Y. Tada of Ventura; and James W. Williams of Santa Paula.Sunkist Growers is a 108-year-old citrus marketing cooperative with 6,000 grower-members in California and Arizona. It markets fresh citrus and processed citrus products worldwide.
28-year-old Santa Paula woman receives fatal injuries
February 15, 2002
Santa Paula News
Al Williams, a Tulare County citrus grower, was elected to a third term as chairman of the Board of Directors of Sunkist Growers following the cooperative’s 108th annual meeting February 6 in Ventura, attended by nearly a thousand growers.
Al Williams, a Tulare County citrus grower, was elected to a third term as chairman of the Board of Directors of Sunkist Growers following the cooperative’s 108th annual meeting February 6 in Ventura, attended by nearly a thousand growers.Williams joined the Sunkist Board in 1988 and has served as vice chairman since 1997. He is president of the Visalia Fruit Exchange and chairman and president of Visalia Citrus Association and the Visalia packing Group, which owns three citrus packinghouses. He manages his family’s citrus and olive orchards, which were first planted in the San Joaquin Valley in 1914.Elected to serve as vice chairmen for 2002 are Allen Pinkerton of Ventura, William E. Chaney of Sun City, Arizona, and Russell Katayama of Orosi, California.Pinkerton is the director of Limoneira Co. and Saticoy Lemon Association. He also served as director of Alta Mutual Water Co., and Farmers Irrigation Co. He joined the Sunkist Board of Directors in 1996.Chaney is president of Marlin Packing Company, Marlin Ranching Company and The Marlin Group, Inc. He is also vice president of the Southern Arizona Citrus Exchange and vice-chairman of Agricultural Producers. He is a 14-year member of the Sunkist Board.Katayama is general manager of Katayama and Sons, Inc. farming operation. He was elected to the Sunkist Board in 1997 and is chairman of Klink Citrus. He is a member of California Citrus Mutual and of the Tulare County Farm Bureau.New to the Sunkist Board are Brad G. Leichtfuss and Stewart A. Resnick.
