A look back at our history over the years.
1944
Scientists in the midst of World War 2 in an effort to expand the preservation and transport of citrus juice discover a way to concentrate the juice and retain some of it's flavor attributes.
1947
Vita-Pakt Juice Company is founded as a beverage in a papercone.
1948
The concentration of orange juice is patented and the first commercial evaporators are introduced.
1957
Vita-Pakt became incorporated as a company. The company went into juice concentrates and other citrus products canned, fresh and frozen in both the retail and wholesale market.
1964
Vita-Pakt briefly ventured into the skateboard industry by acquiring a roller skate manufacturer. From there they took a set of trucks from the roller skate plant along with a piece of a juice crate to illustrate the concept. Vita-Pakt teamed up with Hobie Alter and the skateboard line was born.
1974
Vita-Pakt entered the industrial ingredients arena.
1991
Vita-Pakt built it's first plant in the Central Valley dedicated to citrus industrial products.
1997
Vita-Pakt business is severely impacted by Tropicana co-packing and retail categories through a large loss.
1998
Vita-Pakt exited the retail market to focus on its highly successful industrial ingredients manufacturing.
1999
Vita-Pakt enters the dried products division
2001
Vita-Pakt exit’s the tanker category due to a major energy and crisis recession.
2002
Vita-Pakt entered the dry products manufacturing business as a natural development of its product philosophy of turning discards into viable products.
2002
Vita-Pakt enters the kiwi business.
2010
Vita-Pakt introduced the citrus Flavedo line and expanded its portfolio of unique citrus based products.
2010
Vita-Pakt relocates the Covina production facility to Lindsay.
2010
Vita-Pakt sells the Bireley Brand.
2011
Vita-Pakt expands into concentrates and citrus oils.
2014
Vita-Pakt completed the Tulare Juice Plant move to Lindsay.
2019-2022
COVID-19 outbreak takes place causing the demand for high quality naturally nutritious juices and products. Thus the specialty products line for Vita-Pakt was born, led by it's fresh NFC juice.