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Interview with Schecky Miluso
The Napa Valley Register - May 5, 2020
Napa Nuts pivots to serve home bakers, snackers, and beyond
Napa Nuts, a Napa-based dried fruit, nut, seed, and candy seller, has altered its business model to serve a large number of individual households and remain open during the pandemic.
“No sale is too small. Everyone just became our best customer,” said Schecky Miluso, who co-owns Napa Nuts with his sister, Bonnie Miluso.
The company, which offers everything from raw almonds to chocolate-covered strawberries, allows customers to order online at napanuts.store or over the phone. Read more.
North Bay Business Journal - May 5, 2020
Hungry for business: North Bay food suppliers jump into retail after wholesale dries up with pandemic lockdown
The novel coronavirus' shuttering most restaurants across the North Bay area has created a domino effect for its food suppliers, forcing quick and creative action.
Before the pandemic, Napa Nuts, a family-owned and -operated wholesaler in Napa, was supplying its nuts, dried fruits, seeds and snacks to more than 60 businesses, including several Michelin-star restaurants, such as The French Laundry, The Restaurant at Meadowood and Auberge du Soleil. Read more.
The Knowledge Podcast - March 17, 2020
The Knowledge Podcast - EP04 - Napa Nuts
California continues to be hit by fires, droughts and other environmental catastrophes which are taking its toll on the nuts and dried fruit markets. With ever-increasing prices, smaller companies struggle to have the funds to get ‘organic certified’ despite growing to the official standards which is reducing the supply of organically certified products and thus increasing prices and margins for those companies that can afford to get certified. We also look at how a technological breakthrough made Walnut ‘halves’ cheaper than Walnut ‘pieces’, which was previously unimaginable and discuss how the market reacted to this.
This and much more is discussed by Marcel Goldenberg, Head of Proprietary Pricing at Mintec and Bonnie Miluso, CEO at Napa Nuts in episode 04 of the Mintec Knowledge Podcast.
The Napa Valley Register - January 21, 2020
Family Company is Nuts for Napa
When Napa resident Schecky Miluso reflects on the growing popularity of his family’s business, it all seems kind of, well...nuts.
The Miluso family owns Napa Nuts, a wholesaler of nuts, dried fruit, seeds and confections. Schecky’s parents, Allen and Maxine Miluso, bought the business in 1990 from the Rosenthal family, who started the company as a kosher chicken butchery before expanding sales to nuts and fruits. Read more.
J. Weekly - December 4, 2019
Siblings are Taking a Crack at Family Business Napa Nuts
When Schecky and Bonnie Miluso were growing up in Napa, they had a typical older-brother younger-sister relationship. So if you had told them that they would end up running a business together, and that Bonnie, now 40, would be her 43-year-old brother’s boss, they would have said you were nuts.
Nuts … like Napa Nuts, which is the name of the siblings’ business. Read more.
The Napa Valley Register - June 12, 2008
Moving toward summer at the St. Helena Farmers Market
Wishing to further my educational pursuits, I head over to the Napa Nuts booth to talk with owner Allen Miluso and get some cashews. There I learn that cashews aren’t really nuts at all. They’re legumes and grow on the Sumac tree. Remembering back to my Girl Scout days, I vaguely recall that Sumac is poisonous. Allen asserts that I’m correct. The tree that produces my favorite “nuts” also produces oil that is toxic for humans. The roots, stems, leaves and fruit of the Sumac are all extremely irritating if they come into contact with human skin. So, not only do the seed pods have to be picked and roasted carefully, but their leathery casing requires tedious cutting and removal. Read more.
The Napa Valley Register - December 27, 2007
Going Nuts in Napa—Local mom-and-pop company has a worldwide reach
Here’s a piece of trivia: Where do Brazil nuts come from? No, this isn’t a “Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb?” question.
In fact, according to Allen Miluso, most Brazil nuts come from Bolivia or Peru.
Miluso ought to know. His Napa Nuts operation imports nuts and dried fruit from all over the world to supply chefs and restaurants both locally and throughout the country. Read more.