Greensboro-born, fresh food distributor Foster Caviness is excited to share they are expanding with a new brand name and an additional 165,000-square-foot headquarters in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. With this move, the company now known as Foster, will proudly operate the most robust food supply chain in the Mid-Atlantic, nourishing more people than ever before. 

At the new additional facility and HQ, Foster will offer a turnkey processing operation to prep produce and make products like fruit cups, sandwiches, wraps and pre-made salads. Plus, a high-speed bagging and repackaging operation will put products such as potatoes and apples from local farmers into trays, mesh bags, and poly. “We'll be bringing in local products and rebagging them for commercial use," said Chris Fuss, vice president Sales and Marketing.  

Within the HQ building, they will be expanding storage capabilities, with greater options for dry, cold, and frozen storage, offering a robust inventory management system with full visibility. Another new offering will be six professional grade ripening rooms for avocados, bananas and tomatoes. Each room is designed to enhance ripening through controlled pressure, temperature, and the application of ethylene gas—a natural product produced by many ripening fruits, like apples—which, when concentrated, helps induce ripening in other fruits like avocados.