Excerpt from Plans for Improved Wholesale Food Distribution Facilities for San Diego, California: August 1988 Food and food-related firms are major employers in the area. More than workers are employed by the 230 food firms included in the study. Fruit and vegetable firms form a particularly important ele ment in the wholesale food industry in San Diego and are a significant focus of this study. A total of 63 fresh fruit and vegetable firms operate in the study area. Together, all fruit and vegetable firms handle about tons of products, occupy about million square feet of commercial space in the study area, and employ about workers in various categories. A total of 64 area food wholesale and processing firms need new facilities. Together, these firms distribute about tons of food products worth more than $304 million annually. Presently, the firms needing new facilities and included in new facility planning occupy about square feet of commercial space and employ about workers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.