From Everyday to Gourmet™
Tropical Foods specializes in premium snack mixes, raw and freshly roasted nuts and seeds, dried fruit, and hundreds of bulk and packaged candies, spices, grains and specialty foods. Tropical Foods has an extensive line of retail branded products, including Grabeez®, Buffalo Nuts® and Christille Bay®. The company was founded in 1977 with an original product line of 100 items which has grown to include more than 3000 today. Privately-owned, Tropical is headquartered in Charlotte, NC, with additional operating centers in Orlando, Atlanta, Memphis, Washington DC and Dallas.
Our History
Tropical is a food manufacturer, importer and distributor of bulk and packaged snacks & specialty foods. Founder Jerry York opened the first Tropical office in 1977 in Orlando, followed later that year by our Charlotte, NC office. Since that time, we’ve expanded into Memphis, Atlanta, Washington DC and Dallas. We began with approximately 100 items consisting mostly of our snack mixes, dried fruit, nuts, seeds, and a few candies, beans, grains and flours. Our primary customers were health food stores, hotels and grocery stores. Today our product line has grown to over 3000 items. We also have three “Nut House” retail outlets, located in Atlanta, Charlotte, and Memphis. For over 30 years, we have been responsive to our food industry customer’s needs, and we continue to help them grow their business by sharing our product and market expertise related to our specially formulated snack mixes, freshly roasted nuts & seeds, sesame sticks, and hundreds of bulk and packaged candies, spices, dried fruit, grains, and specialty foods.
