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		In addition to numerous local engineering operations, Spray has been used in four scientific missions that demonstrate its utility in maintaining a time series at a point (synthetic mooring mode), in sampling along a section, and in forming a cooperative array for sampling a four-dimensional volume.
		The Sprays, with maximum operating depth of 1500 m and many-month durations, were set to sample five, approximately 100-km long, offshore sections to a depth of 400 m (or the bottom where shallower).
		In an NSF-funded collaboration with Breck Owens (WHOI), a Spray was deployed in September 2004 over the continental slope south of New England and directed to cross the Gulf Stream and head to Bermuda, a journey of 1000 km.
	spray.ucsd.edu (2314 words)

	BevNET.com - Ocean Spray and PepsiCo Form Strategic Alliance
		Ocean Spray (www.oceanspray.com) is an agricultural cooperative owned by more than 650 cranberry growers in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and other parts of Canada as well as more than 100 Florida grapefruit growers.
		Ocean Spray was formed 76 years ago by three cranberry growers from Massachusetts and New Jersey.
		Ocean Spray is North America’s leading producer of canned and bottled juices and juice drinks, and has been the best-selling brand name in the canned and bottled juice category since 1981.
	www.bevnet.com /news/2006/07-13-2006-Ocean_Pepsi.asp (414 words)

	Ocean Spray History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ocean Spray is an agricultural cooperative formed in 1930 by three cranberry growers who shared a common goal of expanding the market for their crops.
		Ocean Spray® Grapefruit Juice quickly became the number-one bottled grapefruit juice in the country, followed by Ocean Spray® Pink Grapefruit Juice Cocktail, the very first citrus blend of its kind.
		Ocean Spray® Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice Drink was introduced in 1991 and quickly became the most successful product introduction in Ocean Spray history to that point.
	www.sysuinc.com /os/os_history.cfm (673 words)

	Ocean Spray ITG: Cooperative Info.
		Ocean Spray’s heritage is rooted in the proud agricultural tradition of the men and women who founded the grower-owned cooperative in 1930.
		What began as a tiny collective of cranberry growers seeking a dependable home for their fruit was transformed, through generations of their hard work, into an American icon, the number-one brand of canned and bottled juice drinks in the United States.
		Today, the Ocean Spray cooperative is owned by more than 800 cranberry and grapefruit-growing families in the United States and Canada who share an unwavering commitment to producing the highest quality fruits.
	www.oceansprayitg.com /aboutus/coop_info.htm (141 words)

	Demarco v Ocean Spray Counts IV - VII
		The Individual Defendants have caused Ocean Spray to pursue this course of action even though they full well know that the Plaintiff's right to vote on matters that may come before the shareholders is determined by the number of shares of Common Stock actually held by Plaintiff.
		In effort to mitigate the harm threatened by this scheme, Plaintiff wrote Ocean Spray and requested that the unequal treatment of shareholders and coercive redemption plan be compensated for by Ocean Spray by excluding the 2001-02 growing year from the computation of the Equity Quota provided in the Cooperative Marketing Agreement.
		Ocean Spray responded in writing and refused to exclude the 2001-02 growing year from the computation, even though they had permitted such exclusion for the prior year.
	www.geocities.com /cranberrybogs/demarco_06.html (2090 words)

	Ocean Spray
		Today, there are over 120 Ocean Spray grapefruit growers dedicated to growing the best quality fruit.
		Ocean Spray grows sweet, juicy grapefruit primarily in the Indian River region of Florida.
		Ocean Spray growers harvest the grapefruit crop during the November-April timeframe by handpicking the fruit from their groves when it reaches the peak of ripeness.
	www.oceanspray.ca /english/product/grapefruit.cfm (262 words)

	ContraCostaTimes.com \| 11/24/2006 \| Cranberry growers flood food industry with fruit
		Ocean Spray, which will process nearly two-thirds of the estimated 660 million-pound U.S. harvest this year and make about $1 billion in revenue for its members, has been on a campaign for two years "to reintroduce the cranberry to America," Romanzi said.
		Ocean Spray juice sales are up about 6 percent this year while the overall juice category is down and sales of its Craisins -- dried, sweetened cranberries -- are up 100 percent over the past two years and likely to double again, he said.
		Ocean Spray, meanwhile, has been bringing bogs directly to the public, building them in downtown New York, Chicago and Los Angeles this month to promote cranberries.
	www.contracostatimes.com /mld/cctimes/business/16088256.htm (874 words)

	Ocean Spray (cooperative) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ocean Spray is an agricultural cooperative of growers of cranberries and grapefruit headquartered in Middleborough/Lakeville, Massachusetts.
		In the same year Ocean Spray became the first producer of cranberry juice drinks with the introduction of Cranberry Juice Cocktail.
		The cooperative has introduced a number of innovations including the first juice blend, first juice boxes and sweetened dried cranberries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ocean_Spray_(cooperative) (388 words)

	Seeing too much red: 4/9/99
		Payment on the Ocean Spray stock he earned during his years as a cooperative grower was suspended.
		Ocean Spray has long been rumored to be a target for mergers with larger beverage companies, like Coca-Cola or Pepsi.
		Once a grower joins the Ocean Spray cooperative, he or she buys shares of the company for the first five years based on the number of acres they harvest.
	www.s-t.com /daily/04-99/04-09-99/a01lo010.htm (960 words)

	Ocean Spray rejects Pepsi bid - The Boston Globe
		At Ocean Spray, for example, all major decisions, such as the Pepsi deal, must be put to a vote of the growers.
		Under the cooperative, Ocean Spray became the number one brand on the juice aisle, which does not include refrigerated drinks, accounting for 54 percent of the $1 billion consumers spent on cranberry juice last year in the United States, according to Chicago market-research firm Information Resources Inc.
		Ocean Spray growers were paid $35 a barrel for their 2002 crop of cranberries.
	www.boston.com /business/articles/2004/06/09/ocean_spray_rejects_pepsi_bid?mode=PF (992 words)

	Ocean Spray juices to get stronger - just add Pepsi: Partnership increases brand visibility of single-serves
		LAKEVILLE - Ocean Spray is partnering with PepsiCo to plan a major push back into the single-serve juice market, a move its cranberry growers and industry analysts have long said is critical to the company’s survival.
		Ocean Spray will continue to bottle and distribute its multi-serving juice containers that are sold mainly in supermarkets.
		Ocean Spray CEO Randy Papadellis said he was impressed with Pepsi’s ability to form partnerships with other brands, like Lipton and Starbucks, and successfully distribute innovative drinks for those companies.
	ledger.southofboston.com /articles/2006/07/14/news/news04.txt (628 words)

	New products and intensive marketing to boost Ocean Spray
		Returns on 100 pounds of Ocean Spray cranberries, known in the industry as a barrel, peaked at $60.50 in 1996 after more than a decade in the $50-$55 range.
		Now, Ocean Spray says the crisis is easing and that a restructuring of its business, new product launches, increased marketing and control of the supply of fruit have sparked a turnaround that will return its cranberrygrower/owners to their once-profitable life.
		Ocean Spray is forecasting returns per barrel of berries of $17-$22 for the 2000 crop, rising to $21-$27 per barrel for the 2001 crop and up to $27-$37 per barrel for the 2003 harvest.
	www.foodnavigator.com /news/printNewsBis.asp?id=21506 (1036 words)

	BevNET.com - Ocean Spray Elects New Board
		Ocean Spray interim CEO Barbara Thomas, a current Board member who stepped into the CEO slot in November upon the resignation of Robert Hawthorne, has agreed to remain as interim CEO until either a new interim or permanent CEO is appointed.
		Gilmore said Ocean Spray should continue to forge ahead on a series of internal improvements aimed at boosting grower returns, streamlining the company and strengthening the brand's market position.
		Formed in 1930, the Ocean Spray cooperative is made up of growers large and small, representing a cross-section of growers from all cranberry-producing regions: Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and other Canadian provinces.
	www.bevnet.com /news/2003/03-08-2003-oceanspray.asp (451 words)

	JS Online: Embattled Ocean Spray weighs options
		Ocean Spray spokesman Chris Phillips said the company's largest shareholder, Wareham, Mass.-based cranberry grower A.D. Makepeace Co., recently sent a letter to cooperative members saying a merger should be given top consideration.
		Ocean Spray recorded sales of $1.48 billion in the fiscal year that ended Aug. 31, 1998, a 3% increase over fiscal 1997.
		As a growers cooperative, Ocean Spray's primary mission is to buy all the cranberries raised by its members, who control 70% of the nation's crop.
	www.jsonline.com /bym/news/sep99/ocean10090999a.asp (866 words)

	NewStandard: 11/24/96 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Faced with companies attempting to lure growers away with high prices for cranberries, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. is considering spinning off parts of its company and possibly selling stock publicly, an effort to give growers a greater return for their cranberries.
		Ocean Spray employs about 1,200 people in Middleboro and Lakeville and is comprised of about 900 farmers, 750 who grow cranberries, 150 who grow grapefruit.
		The history of Ocean Spray is that we provide stability.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /projects/t2000/a07wn010.htm (342 words)

	WSJ Business & Features
		But the decision by Ocean Spray's board, which has repeatedly signaled its opposition to a sale, could heighten tensions at the cooperative's annual grower's meeting next week in Chicago, where a group of shareholders will push to replace the current board with a slate that would view a sale more favorably.
		Ocean Spray growers have rejected such pro-sale resolutions in the past.
		Ocean Spray said the "overture" was too dependent on poorly performing Northland stock, did not cover enough growers and had too many escape clauses.
	www.madison.com /wisconsinstatejournal/special/43685.php (267 words)

	The Alpaca Fiber Cooperative of North America Member's Site - How AFCNA Works
		Accordingly, cooperative income in excess of expenses can be exempt from Federal taxation on the cooperative level to the extent of patronage allocations to the farmer members.
		For cooperative purchasing services, the cooperative advantage means that farmers are able to capture the large volume price discounts and a broad selection of the supplies and services they need to run their farms.
		Farmers’ cooperatives may choose to be taxed on the Federal level as regular “C” corporations, under Subchapter T of the Internal Revenue Code or a combination of both.
	www.afcna.com /content/view/90/76 (2354 words)

	Forbes.com: Ocean Spray gets new Pepsi offer, vote extended (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ocean Spray's more than 900 growers, who have often stood at odds with each other over the co-op's future, had been asked to send in ballots on the issue by Friday.
		Ocean Spray may choose, in that case, to set up an agreement with a company like Coca-Cola Co. (nyse: KO - news - people) or Cadbury Schweppes Plc for the distribution of its products, including the single-serve juices considered key to the cooperative's future.
		Ocean Spray's growers, who have split in militant fashion for years along both ideological and geographic faults, might be better-positioned to stay independent than they were a year ago, thanks to a rebound in cranberry prices and strength in its "light" beverages as part of the low-carb craze.
	www.forbes.com /home_europe/newswire/2004/05/27/rtr1387354.html (721 words)

	JS Online: Northland, Ocean Spray seek cranberry production limits
		Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc., which has roughly 120 growers in Wisconsin, and Wisconsin Rapids-based Northland Cranberries Inc. will ask the U.S. Department of Agriculture to impose a cranberry volume regulation for this fall's crop.
		Ocean Spray, a cooperative owned by its growers, is the nation's largest producer of cranberry juice blends, which are the industry's biggest product.
		Ocean Spray spokesman Chris Phillips agreed, saying the volume limit is "not a complete fix, obviously." But the limit would help offset the oversupply, he added.
	www.jsonline.com /bym/news/feb00/cran26022500a.asp (703 words)

	Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. Jobs - Employment Opportunities at Monster.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ocean Spray is an agricultural cooperative owned by more than 800 cranberry growers and 126 grapefruit growers located throughout the United States and Canada.
		Ocean Spray was formed in 1930 by three cranberry growers from Massachusetts and New Jersey.
		Ocean Spray cooperative headquarters is located in Lakeville-Middleboro, Massachusetts.
	company.monster.com /oceanspray (163 words)

	Welcome to FreshPlaza
		Thanks to its RFID system, Ocean Spray is able to automate the process of applying RFID labels to cases and testing those labels before the cases are shipped to retailers that have mandated tagging.
		When Ocean Spray ships its Cranberry Juice Cocktail to Wal-Mart, for example, employees take the cases off pallets packaged for shipping and place them on a U-shaped conveyer belt, where they are sent past a Weber Marking Systems' RFID label printer-applicator.
		The strong partnership included Ocean Spray's SAP representative, a member of Ocean Spray's WMS team, a RedPrairie and Ocean Spray customer-service representative and an individual from Wal-Mart.
	www.freshplaza.com /2006/17may/1_us_oceanspray.htm (615 words)

	Oligopoly Watch
		By a narrow margin, the cranberry and grapefruit growers that make up the Ocean Spray cooperative turned down a deal with PepsiCo, whereby Pepsi would package, distribute, and market their products, while they became a purely agricultural cooperative.
		Now Ocean Spray, with its fruit juices and cranberry products, is in the same awkward position in the market that it has been for the last few years.
		All observers agree that Ocean Spray can't go it alone for long, and the co-op is not the sole supplier of cranberries.
	www.oligopolywatch.com /2004/06/09.html (289 words)

	IS NORTHLAND CRANBERRIES RIPE FOR INVESTORS?
		The Lakeview (Mass.)-based cooperative of cranberry and grapefruit farmers already had a joint-venture agreement to provide Ocean Spray juices to convenience stores through Pepsi's distributors.
		And Ocean Spray's attempt to stem its losses to Northland in the grocery segment have been less than successful.
		Ocean Spray recently launched a line of "100%" cranberry juices, copying Northland's claim of not watering down its juices, but after a year of heavy marketing, that line has captured only 2% of the grocery market.
	www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/aug1998/nf80826b.htm (787 words)

	The Daily News Online
		At Ocean Spray's annual meeting in March, growers threw out the company's board of directors and replaced it with a slate they believed would be more responsive to small-scale growers.
		An Ocean Spray spokesman said Papadellis would not be available for comment.
		Ocean Spray had sales of $1.28 billion last year.
	www.tdn.com /articles/2003/06/06/biz/news03.txt (356 words)

	The Daily World
		The plan is basically to have the Markham facility be Ocean Spray’s hub on the West Coast, Hole said.
		Ocean Spray is hoping all of its upgrades will be up and running by April 2007.
		Ocean Spray said additional local and regional firms will be brought in as the project progresses.
	www.thedailyworld.com /articles/2006/06/01/local_news/01news.txt (655 words)

	Holodiscus discolor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ocean spray is found in a variety of habitats, from wet coastal forests to drier, cooler mountain peaks further inland.
		The plant is found in areas prone to wildfire, and it is often the first green shoot to spring up in an area recovering from a burn.
		Ocean spray is commonly found in the chaparral community, which burns regularly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oceanspray (201 words)

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