State Garden is known for its salad offerings with brands like Olivia’s Organics, but the Massachusetts-based business now wants to position itself as a leading organic juice and beverage manufacturer as well.
The company announced on Tuesday that it has expanded its contract manufacturing capabilities to better support juice production, aiming to align with more beverage brands and other private label partners to scale up its drinks business.
“At State Garden, we’ve long leveraged the potential for beverages to get more of our outstanding greens and blends to the consumers who know and love us,” said State Garden CEO Mark DeMichaelis in a statement.
“We’ve had some really exciting conversations with partners, and we’re scaling up to meet this new opportunity,” he added. “We believe partnerships like this are the future of fresh – reducing waste, supporting innovation, and bringing more value and wellness to conscious consumers. We can’t wait to share more details at the Organic Produce Summit in Monterey in a few weeks.”
State Garden, which also owns the Northeast Fresh and Locally Known brands, is capable of producing cold chain products and emphasizes sustainable manufacturing with a focus on regenerative agriculture.
The move to grow juice production is part of that environmental mission, seeking to reduce food waste from its greens lines and “ensure more product is used to its full potential without sacrificing the quality safety that have come to define State Garden’s operations,” the company said.
The company said it aims to meet growing consumer demand for juices and other organic beverages.
The state of the cold-pressed juice and cleanse category has been less than stable in recent years, as former powerhouse brands have folded (Blueprint, Daily Greens) or faced rough periods of decline (Evolution Fresh, which has seen some recovery under Bolthouse Farms’ ownership after being sold by Starbucks). And even leaders in the category such as Suja Life, which also owns Vive Organic, have worked to broaden their platforms beyond juice with products like Slice functional soda.
Still, juice shots have long been a bright spot for growth in the space and overall Suja has been among the best performers, growing sales of its refrigerated fruit drinks by 27.1% and its refrigerated vegetable juices by 3.5% in the 52-week period ending December 29, 2025, according to Circana data tracking U.S. MULO and convenience retail sales.
Categories such as refrigerated fruit drinks (+6.7%) and refrigerated vegetable juices (+3.5%) have grown in the period, although other segments of the juice sector like refrigerated smoothies (-9.3%) have been in decline. The entire $8.5 billion refrigerated juice category grew 1.1%.
Beyond Suja and Vive, brands like Sol-ti, Once Upon a Farm and Pressed Juicery, among others, have been fueling growth in the space, showing there is in fact still demand for better-for-you, clean label juices out there.