Sales for La Farge-based Organic Valley, and the organic food industry in
general, are picking up this year after the cooperative saw its first sales
decline in 2009, CEO George Siemon said Saturday.
So people are pretty optimistic that were starting to pick up our steam
again, Siemon said in an interview before Organic Valleys annual meeting at
the La Crosse Center.
Organic Valley in January cited the recession when announcing that 2009 sales
had dropped 1.3 percent from 2008, to $520 million. It was the first annual
sales decline since the organic farmer cooperative was created in 1988. The
co-op has more than 1,600 organic farmers in 33 states and four Canadian
provinces.
Photo Caption: Organic Valley Family of Farms CEO George Siemons at the company’s
headquarters in La Farge, Wis.
Photo Credit: Tribune file photo
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