Fruit purveyor Cushman’s sells its delicious products through a combination of catalogs, space ads and other channels

By Alicia Orr and Editor In Chief

Growing a Business from the Ground Up

It all started back in the 1940s when Ed Cushman decided to start his own mail-order business. Allen Cushman recalls, “My dad had managed a grocery store for what later became the Winn-Dixie chain, then opened his own small store selling fruit and fresh squeezed juice.”