Blue Diamond Almonds sells a portion of almonds to the Chinese
Bian Zhenhu, president of the China Chamber of Commerce for The Import and Export of Foodstuffs, Native Produce and Animal By-Products, Beijing, and Bill Morecraft, general manager of Blue Diamond Almonds Global Ingredient Division, Sacramento, Calif., jointly signed a memorandum of understanding on July 24 for Chinese companies to buy at least $50 million of Blue Diamond almonds in the next 12 months.
On hand for the signing ceremony at San Francisco City Hall were California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Vice Minister of Commerce for China Wang Chou.