MBG Marketing, the world’s largest grower-owned blueberry and blackberry marketing cooperative has taken a strategic step into the Global Foods market in establishing MB GLOBAL FOODS, a partnership that will complement its commitment to growing their product portfolio in cooperation with Naturipe Value Added Foods. Larry Ensfield, President and CEO, along with the Board of Directors of MBG Marketing, is very enthusiastic about the new opportunity, which is a partnership with Stephen Mullin and Paul Gibis, two food industry veterans who will be managing MB GLOBAL FOODS, a new international frozen food business, from Hudson QC, Canada, beginning in early March 2017. MBG Marketing plans to make substantial capital investments into their two existing IQF and value added processing facilities in Michigan and Georgia to support MB GLOBAL FOODS’ key initiatives, which will include the procurement of food stocks from around the world in supporting these processing capabilities. Ensfield stated, “This is a very exciting time for MBG Marketing and its grower members, our cooperative just celebrated its 80th anniversary and this new business opportunity gives us a good start on the next 80 years.”
