Suja Juice
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| Private | |
| Industry | Cold-pressed juice |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Headquarters | San Diego, California, United States |
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Key people
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Annie Lawless, Eric Ethans, James Brennan, Jeff Church (Co-founders) |
| Products | Juices |
| Website | www |
Suja Juice is an organic, non-GMO, cold-pressed juice company based in San Diego, California. Suja produces cold-pressed juices, waters and drinking vinegars. It is the largest independent producer of cold-pressed juice sold in the United States.
Suja means "long, beautiful life". It was founded by four San Diegans from different walks of life.
Co-founder Annie Lawless had been juicing from a young age. Her friend Eric Ethans had a background as a raw food chef and spent his entire life researching and pairing ingredients to create healthy meals. The two met in San Diego; frustrated by the lack of pure, organic products on grocery store shelves, they decided to create their own juices at home.
James Brennan, an award-winning restaurateur, met Eric and was instantly hooked on his homemade juice. Jeff Church, a Harvard MBA and successful social entrepreneur, was known for his role as founder and CEO of Nika Water, a social enterprise that donates 100 percent of its profits to clean water projects and poverty alleviation around the world.
These four came together to form Suja Juice, with a mission to distribute top quality organic and non-GMO juice. Through the large-scale use of organic, non-GMO fruits and vegetables, and implementation of a displacement technology called High Pressure Processing (HPP), Suja Juice has become the nation’s leading organic and cold-pressured juice brand.
In August 2015, The Coca-Cola Company took a 30% minority stake in the company for approximately $90 million, and signed a deal for Suja Juice products to be sold via Coca-Cola’s distribution network and produced at Coca-Cola's bottling facilities, without changing the products' recipes.
In September, 2016, Suja was listed as the Fastest Growing Food & Beverage Company in Inc. 500.
All Suja Juice products are made from organic, non-GMO fruits and vegetables, and are vegan, kosher, gluten-free, dairy-free and soy-free. They use BPA-free, PETE plastic bottles for packaging and source locally to reduce their carbon footprint.
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