Kirkland does not own Ocean Spray.
However Ocean Spray juices are also sold under the Kirkland Signature Label at Costco but Kirkland does not own it.
Kirkland Signature is Costco's premium in house brand and Costco does not publicly disclose who makes their Kirkland products.
Ocean Spray is actually owned by more than 700 cranberry farmers and over 50 grapefruit farmers.
Ocean Spray is an agricultural cooperative that means it's actually owned by it's farmers and growers.
3 farmers founded Ocean Spray in 1930 and the Ocean Spray company is headquartered in Lakeville Middleboro, Massachusetts.
The cranberries in Ocean Sprays products are from Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Oregon, New Jersey, Washington, British Columbia and other parts of Canada.
Some cranberries in Ocean Sprays products are also from Florida.
Ocean Spray does use pesticides on some of it's products but not the organic products.
Ocean Spray's organic products are pesticide free but the non organic products use pesticides.
Organic Ocean Spray products like Organic Sweetened Dried Cranberries are grown without synthetic pesticides irradiation or fertilizers.
Ocean Spray's Sparkling Cranberry Fruit Juice isn't certified as being organic and can contain synthetic pesticides.
And Ocean Spray's conventional cranberries are grown with less stringent standards for pest control.
Ocean Spray is real fruit and uses real fruit including real cranberries and real grapes.
Ocean spray also uses real fruit in it's other products as well.
Cran grape is 100% juice although it also contains filtered water and sugar as well as Fumaric acid, vegetable concentrate for color and sodium citrate and ascorbic acid.
Cran Grape Ocean Spray juice is good you as it's fat free, low in sodium and also contains the recommended amount of 100 percent of daily vitamin C.
Cran Grape Ocean Spray juice also contains flavors that are derived naturally.
Cran Grape Ocean Spray juice can help to prevent or treat urinary tract infections and can also have antibacterial properties.
Ocean Spray Cranapple Juice as well as the Cranberry Juice is good for you as long as you drink it in moderation.
Although it's also high in sugar so you have to be careful to the amount you drink or it could become unhealthy.
Ocean Spray Cranapple Juice and Cranberry Juice is so good because of the high concentration of cranberries that are also known to prevent urinary tract infections due to the proanthocyanidins.
Ocean Spray also is a good source of Vitamin C and antioxidants.
Ocean spray cranberry juice is also pretty high in sugar which also adds to the flavor and makes the cranberry juice more addictive to drink.
The 2 most popular Ocean Spray products are the fresh cranberries and cranberry sauce.
Other popular Ocean spray products are Ocean Sprays Zero Cranberry Juice as well as Cranapple.
Ocean Spray Cranapple is Ocean Spray's first juice blend and is a combination of cranberry juice and apple juice.
Craisins, Chocolate dipped cranberry bites, Cran X Dragon Fruit and Zero sugar powdered drink mixes are also very popular Ocean Spray cranberry products.
Zero sugar powdered drink mixes are made with real cranberry juice powder and are available in the flavors such as White Cran X Peach, Cran X Strawberry and Cran X Grape.
Cran X Dragon Fruit is a sought after product from Ocean Spray.
Craisins were invented in response to a price drop in the early 2000s.
Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc. competitors include Tropicana Beverage Group, Dole Food Company, Sunsweet Growers Inc., Minute Maid and Mott's.
Marcus Urann, John Makepeace and Elizabeth Lee worked together to create the Jellied Cranberry Sauce before growers from Wisconsin, Washington, and Oregon quickly joined forces.
And within a decade, Ocean Spray became the first producer of cranberry juice drinks with products sold on store shelves from coast to coast.