This family owned and operated business represents 3 generations in the California and world fruit business with a clear specialization in sweet cherries and recently blueberries and apricots. The company is fortunate to have a highly trained and experienced group of management and staff professionals. OG Packing also represents an outstanding group of professional sweet cherry and blueberry growers throughout California.

---

History and Company Profile

       The Gotelli family emigrated from Italy in the early 1900's to settle and plant cherries along the Calaveras River in California. As the markets for sweet cherries grew the Gotelli family expanded and grew to meet the market demand. The company started as Oneto-Gotelli Company and has been in the cherry packing business for over 40 years. The "O-G" brand became synonymous with California cherries and in 1971 the company name was changed to O-G Packing Company to better coincide with our popular label. The ingenuity of Al Gotelli led to the development and the patenting of the first mechanical cluster cutter to separate the stems of cherries. The machinery is still used today and led to an expansion in the market by helping to keep the costs of packing cherries modest. OG Packing has been an innovator by designing and utilizing half-sized picking bins as well as integrating hydro-cooling and other rapid cooling and cold chain systems into the packing operation. Improvements in fruit quality have been the result. Continued innovation is the hallmark of OG Packing, always looking for ways to improve fruit quality and service its customers with the best fruit from California and the Pacific Northwest. OG Packing distributes fruit to Asia, Europe, Oceania, North, South and Central America. OG Packing employs over 2000 workers during the season and packs well over 1 million boxes of cherries during a normal growing season.