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Company Overview:
B & W is the world's largest watercress grower. The preeminent specialty produce operation also grows arugula. Its seasonal farms in six states in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of U.S. ensure that an unrivaled, year-round supply of fresh product is always available. Family owned and operated for more than 135 years, the B & W label has earned a reputation for consistently high product quality and value among grocers, wholesalers, chefs, restaurateurs and consumers.
B&W?s roots go back to New Jersey in 1870, when brothers-in-law Richard Salmon Baker and Richard Soltan formed Soltan and Baker. Soon, nephew Albert W. Baker joined the operation; eventually his son, Richard W. Baker, ran the company. Richard R. (Dick) Burgoon, who married Richard Baker?s oldest daughter, Patricia, was welcomed into the family business in 1963. Burgoon bought the business in 1969 and merged with Donald E. Weaver (hence the B&W name). In 1973, B&W purchased Dennis Watercress Co., established in 1874. Weaver retired in 1990 and sold his share of the business to Burgoon, whose family presently owns and operates B&W.
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