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Oxford Frozen Foods
Food manufacturer increases revenues by 60% using Ross Enterprise
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Customer Snapshot
Founded in 1968, Oxford Frozen Foods began its operations as a family-owned business located along Canada's seacoast in Nova Scotia. The land and weather conditions in the area make it ideal for Oxford to harvest wild blueberries, a smaller and more concentrated blueberry native to Maine, Atlantic Canada, and Quebec.
Challenges
- Required automated, integrated system for large number of plants, farms, and warehouses
- Required accurate information to comply with federal regulations to ship product from Canada to U.S.
- Required more data for customers on product history and efficient traceability measures
- Improve tracking to support continued growth
Results
- Achieved ROI of system in one year
- Doubled to 110 million pounds of product
- Increased revenue by 60%
- Added several warehouses and farms, including acquisition of North America's largest fruit farm
- Easily met the four-hour mandate for prior notification to ship product into the U.S.
- Member of Federal School Lunch Program, which requires stringent lot information on products