Pear Points Are Back

Look inside of our new crop of Bartlett pears for the Sage Fruit Pear Point stickers!

This fall starting with specially marked boxes packed after September 1, 2010 we will be putting new stickers on the outside of Sage Fruit company label pears!

Download your Pear Points Sticker Sheet and start saving those stickers to be entered into our drawing for great prizes.

Nascar Driver Kasey Kahne

Kasey Kahne is a very unique and successful promotional opportunity that Sage Fruit has developed for retailers that truly want to grow their business and offer exciting consumer programs featuring a sports star in NASCAR. This is an exclusive opportunity only from Sage Fruit Co.  By utilizing one of the most popular drivers in NASCAR, Sage Fruit and Kasey Kahne offer many opportunities to grow sales, and develop fun, kid friendly marketing programs that drive your sales upward.

We can fit this promotion to meet your ad and promotional criteria. There are many types of features for Kasey Kahne promotions and this can be used in tandem with other marketing programs. Whether you are an everyday Sage customer or not, if you want Sage Fruit and Kasey Kahne to drive sales when a NASCAR Race is coming to your area, this promotion works. NASCAR consumers are the most loyal customers there are in any sport.

The Kasey Kahne Promotion can be run with numerous apple varieties including Red Delicious, Galas, and Granny Smith apples. Each variety has Kasey Kahne’s picture on the bag and is available in 3 pound and 5 pound sizes.   There are also Kasey Kahne life-size stand-ups available to support all Kasey Kahne apple or pear features. This brings attention to your department and the apple section. This looks especially eye catching next to a Kasey Kahne fruit Bin.  Every bin for this promotion has Kasey Kahne’s likeness in high graphic full color. These bright colors and Kasey Kahne stand out to consumers and bring traffic and attention to the entire produce section.

Kasey Kahne in Store Radio

Besides all of the great packaging we have several different versions of Kasey Kahne telling shoppers that apples / pears / cherries are on sale in the produce department and to look for high quality Sage Fruit for a great value. This brings lots of additional shoppers into the produce department to sell more apples, pears, or cherries and also builds other spontaneous sales in your stores.

Let Kasey Kahne help to sell your apples and cherries!  Contact your local marketing representative to find out how.

Truly Exceptional Apples!

New Sonya Apples

You'll Never Taste Another Apple Quite Like It

Originally developed in the uplands of Central Otago in New Zealand, Sonya apples are now being grown in the rich volcanic soils in Washington's Yakima Valley. In this fertile lowlands micro climate, the Sonya apple is cultivated to maximize flavor and size. This crisp, refreshing apple, available from December through April, is a cross between a Gala and Red Delicious only sweeter (high brix level) with a unique aroma.

Characterized by a distinctive broad shouldered shape, a Sonya is bi-colored with a light-to-dark red over a creamy-to-yellow background. A very pleasant and tasty apple, the Sonya is delicious straight from the fridge or served with a favorite cheese, in salads, or baked into pastries and pies. Known for an excellent shelf-life, the Sonya maintains a firm texture and is relatively easy to handle and store.

Exceptionally Sweet All Year Round

Sonya apples are grown on 400 acres in Washington State's Yakima Valley, an area similar to the climate in New Zealand where the variety was first developed in 2002. The Verbrugge family of Valley Fruit first found the apple variety in New Zealand with their two partners while looking for a new fruit to bring to market in North America. Initially drawn to its appearance, the Sonya's taste and grower friendliness are what sold them.

Today, Valley Fruit, Price Cold Storage and Congdon Orchards are the three grower/packer licensees for Sonya in North America. In their carefully managed orchards, the apples are grown with a commitment to quality and producing flavorful fruit. The variety is bred to be vigorously disease-resistant and grows in a minimally-fertilized culture friendly to the environment. Widely known as an exceptionally sweet apple with good crunch, the Sonya's firmness translates into an excellent apple for growers to store and for retailers/consumers to keep fresh and sweet longer. Thank you to Bob Price of Price Cold Storage, Dick Woodin of Congdon Orchards and the Verbrugge family, Marty, John, and Peter of Valley Fruit for having the vision of success for the Sonya variety.

Sonya is a unique and controlled variety and Sage Fruit is proud to be one of the grower shippers integrated for Sonya. Sonya is available year around as we grow this variety in Washington State, and augment the crop with New Zealand Sonya apples during the summer months. This allows you to offer a premium piece of fruit year around and have complete confidence in freshness and an excellent eating experience for your consumers. Additionally, this allows you to build momentum with a variety and offer it year around to consumers so there is no time break. Many other controlled varieties can’t make this claim and the result is that Sonya consistently offers a premium apple and higher ring at your registers year around.

Feature Sonya as a high quality, unique and delicious apple experience to your consumers. Sage offers many different promotional opportunities including secret shopper events, sampling and display contests. All of these are designed to drive consumers to a high end premium piece of fruit and deliver higher rings and increase sales.

Lots of Sonya apple information is available on the Sonya apple website at sonyaapple.com.

We also offer a Sonya apple Point of Sale Card (POS) -see below… This POS card highlights the apple as exceptionally sweet and draws the consumer’s attention which leads to additional purchases.

Tentation Apples

Unique & Delicious

• The apple is a hybrid of many golden varieties. The result is that Tentation is crisp, sweet and durable. The variety often shows some blush and thus has the look and flavor dynamics for a great premium apple!
• The very variety is firm with high pressure and brix counts of 13 to 17. This enables excellent eating qualities when collected and stored under the optimal conditions. Also, a shelf life of 5 months can be maintained while producing excellent flavor qualities.

Sage Fruit is one of 2 companies in the US offering this very unique and delicious apple. The apple is a southern hemisphere offering and from New Zealand thus is only available from late June through Mid-August. There are less apple variety selections available at that time to your consumers. Tentation offers you the chance to keep your consumers attention in apples by offering a truly unique and delicious item that can quite possibly be unique to your market place.

• The crabapple is the only apple native to North America.
• Washington apples are sold in all 50 states and more than 50 countries.
• Workers harvest more than 3 billion apples each fall.