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The Purple Tomato™
Press Kit
Contact: Nate Pumplin +1 (707) 418-8016
info@norfolkhealthyproduce.com
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The Purple Tomato™ is trademarked. Please identify as such with ™ designation.
About us:
Our mission is to deliver nutritious, beautiful Purple Tomatoes™ to customers who embrace biotechnology for good and value our commitment to positive impact.
Fast Facts
Company Bio
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Founded in December 2021.
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Our offices and greenhouses are located in Davis CA.
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NHP has 5 full time and 3 part time employees.
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The Purple Tomato™ is NHP’s first product line, offering a tomato loaded with antioxidants clinically demonstrated to provide health benefits and a unique presence on the plate.
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NHP sells Purple Tomato™ seeds through our website, and seedlings and tomato fruit at the Davis Farmers Market. Also sold at select US farmers markets by licensed market grower partners.
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Launched Home Gardeners seed sales in February 2024 and sold 13,000 packs in 6 weeks. Purple Tomato™ 2025 Home Gardener seed sales are launched and currently happening.
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15 licensed market growers for the 2025 season to date.
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>100,000 clamshells of Empress Limited Edition Purple Tomatoes™ sold in grocery stores in the 2024 season. Empress will go back on sale in spring 2025 from Red Sun Farms.
Bringing Plant Science Innovation to Market
Norfolk Healthy Produce (NHP) is the US-based specialty seed company, dedicated to developing and marketing products that meet consumer and partner needs, using the cutting-edge and safe innovations developed by Norfolk Plant Sciences.
CEO Nathan Pumplin, an entrepreneur with biotechnology commercialization and research backgrounds, leads the company. Backed by an experienced group of investors and advisors led by Eric Ward, NHP is bringing to market a portfolio of health-benefitting traits in tasty and appealing fruits & vegetables.
NHP’s first product line is The Purple Tomato™, loaded with anthocyanins, the class of antioxidants in blueberries. Seeds and seedlings are sold to home gardeners under the name “The Purple Tomato™". Licensed market grower partners also sell Purple TomatoTM fruit at select farmers markets. Together with Red Sun Farms, we sell Empress Purple TomatoesTM in retail grocery stores.