<p><strong> Los Alamitos, CA</strong><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Happy Birthday, Frieda Caplan! We are sending out our best birthday wishes and fresh produce fervor to a produce pioneer, entrepreneur, mother and grandmother. Frieda is celebrating her 89th birthday today, August, 10th, 2012.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Also this year, Frieda’s Inc. is celebrating 50 years of innovation in fresh produce. Founded in 1962 by Frieda Caplan, Frieda’s was the first wholesale produce company in the U.S. to be founded, owned and operated by a woman, and is still a family- and women-owned business today. If anyone would like to wish Frieda a Happy Birthday, who has not already, they are welcomed to gift the kiwifruit queen with a few words of their own through the following email address: [email protected].<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Frieda’s has introduced more than 200 specialty items to U.S. produce departments, including Kiwifruit, Spaghetti Squash, Habanero Peppers, and Black Garlic, to name a few.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href="http://www.friedas.com" target="_new"> Frieda’s Inc. </a></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">