Apio's grab'n go cups: New line offers fast food without the fat

摘要

Apio Inc. built its business growing and shipping broccoli, so it's ironic that the name actually means "celery" in Spanish. However, it was a group of five celery growers that started the company in 1979 in the Santa Maria Valley of California. The business invested in innovative technology from the start, and in the early 1980s Apio developed a broccoli-packing trailer that changed the way the product was harvested. It had always been field-packed in bins and then repacked for shipping in the shed, but the trailer Apio developed allowed the company to have it ready to ship from the field. The innovation helped Apio become the leading shipper of broccoli in the nation.