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1850
California pioneers find an ideal Mediterranean climate in the soils of Sacramento, Monterey and Los Angeles, where they plant their first almonds, giving birth to an industry.
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1910
The California Almond Growers Exchange is founded, leading development of California's almond industry.
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1914
The Exchange opens a new receiving and packaging plant, which would later become the largest nut processing plant in the world, covering 33 city blocks on 90 acres.
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1915
The Exchange adopts the blue diamond — the rarest in the world — as the symbol on its label, representing high quality and distinguishing it from Spanish and Italian imports.
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1931
20 million pounds of almonds are delivered by four thousand almond growers.
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1931
The Exchange innovates grading, shelling and other processes to increase market share. Mechanical test grading for quality is introduced.
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1949
The 6-ounce can of Blue Diamond Smokehouse® almonds is first introduced.
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1980
The Exchange officially becomes known as Blue Diamond Growers.
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1986
Blue Diamond launches A Can A Week ad campaign, in which real almond growers made the pitch “A can a week, that’s all we ask.”
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2010
Over 1.5 billion pounds of crops delivered to keep up with record-breaking global demand.
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2013
Blue Diamond doubles capacity by opening a new plant in Turlock, California, designed to create more value-added global products using state of the art technology.
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2013
Blue Diamond launches A Can A Week ad campaign, in which real almond growers made the pitch “A can a week, that’s all we ask.”
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Today
Working with a new generation of growers, Blue Diamond continues its legacy of bringing the benefits of almonds to the world.