Grounded in Oregon’s heritage and thriving on the spirit of ingenuity and enterprise, Transpacific Food works to help the world turn one berry at a time.  Built in the heart of the frozen fruit industry, the company meets your needs with friendly and efficient customer service, savvy sourcing and unsurpassed dedication to quality.  The business is built around both blackberries and long term professional relationships; both cultivated and grown with integrity and patience.  Transpacific Food offers a wide variety of fruits, purees and packaging, supporting its customers with competitive pricing, excellent quality and friendly, thorough assistance. 

Success is impossible without a great team.  Principal and visionary, Bob Underwood, actively guides the organization’s operations at the Sherwood office, while supporting a family-rooted lifestyle and a healthy dose of hands-on farming at Sandy Farms in Boring, Oregon.  While overseeing the Sandy Farms operation, yielding Oregon’s premier harvest of Blackberry, Bob steers the all but fledgling production facility, also located at Sandy Farms, down the path of fine purees, sieved and custom-pack fruits.  Bob defines his companies by demonstrating integrity and patience.  He prefers to build face-to-face relationships, and he speaks John Deere and football as fluently as he does chemical compositions, fertilizers and profit margins.  There might be dirt under his nails, but more than likely there will be a Bluetooth attached to one ear and the conversation will easily ramble from sustainable farming to stock car drag racing.  Ultimately, Bob is an entrepreneur and knows that he can’t do it all alone.  From the inside, he grows his organizations with the same careful respect for relationships and long-term commitment.  Bob’s teams are solid, dependable and reflect his desire to promote integrity and lasting relationships. 

At the Transpacific Food office, you will find Karla in the role of office manager and customer service.  She literally spent her earliest working years picking strawberries and eventually working in a local fruit packing plant.  After college, her aspirations led her to build and ultimately sell her own successful enterprise. In a rather unexpected twist of events, she circled back to those college summers in the fruit packing plant, and began her hands-on education in the production and administration side of frozen berries. She too, believes in and promotes an environment of integrity and entrepreneurship, and can also mix up the conversation with the merits of blackberry as easily as she can speak collectible autos and culinary arts.