Our Products Why Morning Star Growers Newsletters Resources Join our Team Contact Us Providing superior customer value since 1970. Santa Nella Facility: Liberty Packing Company Reliable Supply and Consistent Quality LEARN MORE Value-Added Customer Service LEARN MORE Innovation and Scale LEARN MORE Tomato Processing and Packing Company In 1970, Chris Rufer began Morning Star as a one-truck owner-operator company in California’s Central Valley, hauling tomatoes from fields to canneries. Today, Morning Star operates three factories with the largest production scale in the world, with resources solely dedicated to tomatoes. We supply over 40 percent of national markets with ingredient tomato paste and diced tomatoes. We provide bulk-ingredient products to food manufacturers and pouch and can ingredient and finished products to the food service and retail trade. We are actively involved in the global tomato industry and ongoing tomato research, and we have pioneered changes in production technology that have helped increase efficiencies throughout the industry. Our sales of tomato products are over $800 million annually. And we still haul our tomatoes from the fields – just as our owner began his journey in 1970. Our mission is, and has always been, to produce tomato products which consistently achieve the quality and service expectations of our customers in a cost-effective, environmentally responsible manner. Coloring the world red one tomato at a time. Williams Facility 2211 Old Highway 99 W Williams, CA 95987 Los Banos Facility 13448 Volta Road Los Banos, CA 93635 Santa Nella Facility 12045 S. Ingomar Grade Rd. Los Banos, CA 93635 Where we are located. Our three processing facilities are located throughout the heart of California’s tomato country – processing tomatoes from California’s entire Central Valley. Where we serve. Every year close to 40 countries produce in total around 37,000-41,000 MT of tomatoes. Of that total, around 10% is supplied by Morning Star. Meet our enterprise team. Morning Star provides vertically integrated services with the support of our enterprise companies. Founded in 1970 Tomato Ingredient Producer, Owner and partner of all enterprises, Mission Focused Self-Management, Hotel Mission De Oro Founded in 1970 Tomato Hauling and Freight Services Partnership since 1992 Foodservice Formulated Sauces and Tomato Ingredients Founded in 1995 Seeds, Transplants, Transplanting and Harvesting Founded in 2000 Ag Research and Development Partnership since 2003 Greenhouse Tomato Transplants Purchased in 2009 Sun-Dried Tomato Producers Mission Focused Self-Management Morning Star is organizationally structured through a system we term Mission Focused Self-Management. Our company is operated by colleagues without titles or an appointed hierarchy of authority. “Mission Focused Self-Management is simple: Our personal commercial missions drive our colleagues’ activities and coordination with an internal and external customer focus. Our relationships are based on Human Respect.” —Chris Rufer Navigation Our Products Why Morning Star Growers Resources Join our Team Privacy Policy Contact Us Follow Us Los Banos Santa Nella Williams Colleagues Popular Links History of the Tomato Tomato Market Price Organic Products Processed Tomatoes Tomato Nutritional Facts Morning Star Newsletters Morning Star Proudly Supports Copyright 2019-2021 The Morning Star Company Our site uses cookies. By continuing to use our site you are agreeing to our cookies policy. AcceptRefuse