1080 W REX RD MEMPHIS, TN 38119 Get Directions
1080 W REX RD MEMPHIS, TN 38119 Get Directions
After years of service with the Fruit Dispatch Service, a division of United Fruit Company and the forerunner of Chiquita Banana, Gilbert Watson Palmer decided to form his own produce brokerage business.
Why not? The economy was booming. Brokerage rates were 10 cents per 100 pounds of potatoes, and ice-bunkered rail cars from California meant fresher produce for the Memphis market. The future never looked brighter that spring.
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