The cranberry is king in Tomah, Wisconsin, where bogs stretch across the horizon and color every aspect of life in the community. Here, Ocean Spray’s Tomah processing plant—home of the Original Craisins® Dried Cranberries—produces 31 million pounds of dried cranberries and concentrate every year. Its 125 employees average 10 years with Ocean Spray and operate three production lines in the 75,000 square foot facility, which rests on 243 acres.

Products: Ocean Spray Jellied Cranberry Sauce, Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice Cocktail and Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice Drinks

The Ocean Spray story starts in 1930 when three passionate, independent cranberry growers found the key to expanding the superfruit's success: a single cranberry-growing family! By coming together in one cooperative, Marcus Urann, John Makepeace and Elizabeth Lee worked together to create deliciously innovative products with the fruit they loved. The best part? They continued to grow their cranberry family along the way, which now includes over 700 grower families across North and South America!

Once our three founders banded together and launched their first product - Jellied Cranberry Sauce - there was no stopping the Ocean Spray Cooperative. Growers from Wisconsin, Washington and Oregon quickly joined the cooperative, and within its first decade, Ocean Spray became the first producer of cranberry juice drinks! Our products were hitting store shelves from coast to coast, and as more years passed, more and more products were created. But to this day, the original Ocean Spray products remain our most popular: Ocean Spray® Jellied Cranberry Sauce and Ocean Spray® Cranberry Juice Cocktail.