True Citrus Passes $2M Sales on Grovara Online Marketplace

True Citrus, a category leader thanks to its array of True Lemon and True Lime drink mixes made from simple, non-GMO ingredients and real citrus and citrus-forward, salt-free seasoning blends, grew total revenues by double digits in 2021. The company grew its international sales over 100 percent during that same period, using Grovara’s proprietary wholesale marketplace along with growth Grovara facilitated in Panama and Peru.

Before working with Grovara, True Citrus saw only sporadic global sales, according to the company. Exporting represented a big opportunity, but international orders come with highly specialized and time-consuming workflows, with each country requiring specialized documents, sales strategies, and market-specific label requirements.

True Citrus interviewed multiple international partners and chose Grovara because of its end-to-end, frictionless technology and vetted international network.

“It made perfect sense to find a trusted international partner with experience in what is a much more complex sale than what we were traditionally handling,” said True Citrus CEO Robert Cuddihy.

Despite the pandemic, True Citrus opened five new overseas markets in the last year on the Grovara marketplace, including Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa, Costa Rica and Puerto Rico. The company’s powdered soft drink products are particularly popular in warmer climates, while the True Citrus unsweetened offerings have achieved widespread popularity, especially in Asia.

True Citrus is an ideal brand for international distribution, according to Grovara. The products are light, making it easy and cost-efficient to transport. They also have a two-year shelf life and are priced competitively for the international market.

Grovara offers 48 True Citrus products, all made from simple, clean ingredients and real citrus, on its online marketplace. In addition to its low-sugar, low-calorie drink mix line and salt-free seasonings, True Citrus also makes a variety of unsweetened citrus wedge replacements, unsweetened juice mixes for foodservice applications and has a line of products for industrial ingredient applications, most under the brand names of True Lemon and True Lime. The company also boasts lines of popular salt-free seasoning shakers and unsweetened juice mixes.

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