Who makes Kirkland Signature Orange Juice, Not from Concentrate, 59 fl oz, 3-count?
No reliable public evidence identifies the manufacturer of Kirkland Signature Orange Juice, Not from Concentrate, 59 fl oz, 3-count as of August 3, 2026.
The common claim
What most answers say — and what the evidence supports
There is no prevailing, evidence-backed answer for who makes Kirkland Signature orange juice, and the guesses that circulate do not fit the product. The not-from-concentrate juice is pressed from Valencia oranges grown in California, which cuts against the most common rumors — Tropicana and Florida's Natural are Florida operations, and a stray social-media claim of Ocean Spray (a cranberry cooperative) has nothing behind it. Costco does not disclose the bottler, its product pages have no archived manufacturer field we could read, and no recall, court record, or trade report names the co-packer. No reliable public evidence identifies the manufacturer; the 'distributed by' line and any plant code on a current carton are the most direct check.
Evidence & sources
Costco does not disclose its suppliers, and no tier 1–5 source names the maker of this product. Below is the documented search — every database and record we checked, and what each one returned.
FDA / USDA FSIS / CPSC recall databases (web sweep for Kirkland + orange juice) July 5, 2026
No recall names a bottler or co-packer for Kirkland Signature orange juice. Kirkland Signature juice recalls on file are for other products (e.g., the 2023 Berner Foods cold-brew coffee recall); shopper complaints about cartons fermenting in 2023-2024 did not result in a recall. No co-packer surfaced via the recall route.
Costco.com product listing / PDP manufacturer (mfName) field, via Wayback Machine (live costco.com blocks automated fetch) July 5, 2026
No Wayback capture exists for the Kirkland orange-juice listings (conventional items #100296027 / #100333716 and organic items #100333717 / #1073013 in either URL form; CDX returned zero results), so the embedded manufacturer field cannot be read online. This is the field that resolved the frozen lasagna (Request Foods) and pizza (Palermo Villa); for the orange juice it is not retrievable without a live or in-store check. Flagged for a browser check.
News and food-media sweep (Chowhound, RV and Playa, Costco-shopper blogs, 2023-2026) July 5, 2026
No article or executive statement names the maker. Coverage states only that the juice is produced under contract for Costco, is not from concentrate, and is pressed from Valencia oranges grown in California. The California-Valencia sourcing argues against the most-repeated guesses, which are Florida operations.
Community / social scan (Reddit r/Costco, Threads, Q&A sites) July 5, 2026
Contradictory and unsupported: a Threads post floats Ocean Spray (a cranberry cooperative, an implausible fit for orange juice), while listicle-style Q&A pages float Tropicana, Florida's Natural, or 'US Juice.' None cites evidence, and Tropicana and Florida's Natural are Florida-based, which does not match the California-grown Valencia oranges on the label.
ImportYeti (US customs bills of lading) July 5, 2026
Not probative here: not-from-concentrate orange juice sold in the US is overwhelmingly produced and bottled domestically (this product is pressed from California Valencia oranges), so sea-freight import records would not cover the bottling contract, and Costco masks many shipments via freight forwarders (SPEC tier 5 caveat). No bill of lading naming a Kirkland orange-juice bottler surfaced.
CourtListener / RECAP federal court records and SEC EDGAR full-text search July 5, 2026
No litigation or public filing naming a Kirkland Signature orange-juice supplier found. No juice company's filings reference a Costco orange-juice private-label relationship. No deterministic code registry (USDA EST/P-, FDA IMS, TTB, NDC, API) covers pasteurized orange juice.
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