Sunkist and global sourcing

A Sunkist news release yesterday brought news of its new sourcing manager. From the Sunkist release:

Michael Nomoto, a veteran exporter from Southern California, has been named Managing Director of Sunkist’s global sourcing organization, Sunkist Global LLC. He replaces Mark Tompkins who was tapped earlier this year to lead Sunkist’s domestic fresh fruit sales network.

Later....

In his new position, Nomoto is responsible for securing production and folding it seamlessly into the Sunkist international sales and delivery network. “Sunkist is currently sourcing complementary citrus from South Africa, Australia and Mexico and delivering it to customers in North America and Asia,” said Hanlin. “Mike will expand those relationships as well as develop new ones in other citrus producing areas.”

TK: Where will those new sources for Sunkist be? Here is a good world citrus roundup from the USDA FAS. Right now, the top fresh citrus exporters in the world are Spain, South Africa, the U.S., Turkey, Argentina, China, Mexico and Morocco. If Argentina gains access to the U.S. market - as is widely expected - it figures that Sunkist would want to be a significant part of that deal.