Blue Diamond Growers is a cooperative owned by more than 3,000 almond growers, processing, marketing, and selling almonds and almond-based consumer goods. Founded as the California Almond Growers Exchange in 1910, the company formally adopted the Blue Diamond name and symbol in 1980. It operates facilities in Sacramento and Turlock, California, and maintains a dedicated Almond Innovation Center for product research and development.
The company processes almonds across multiple product categories: packaged snack almonds, Nut-Thins crackers, Almond Breeze almondmilk, and almond protein powder. Its business spans agricultural production, food manufacturing, and consumer packaged goods distribution, combining grower expertise with global marketing capabilities.
Blue Diamond's operations are rooted in California's Mediterranean climate, where the almond industry began in the early 1900s. The cooperative structure ties processing and marketing directly to the growers who supply the raw product, creating alignment across the supply chain. Over more than a century, the company has expanded from a regional specialty crop into global distribution of almond-based products.