Founded in 1983, Gills Onions is one of the nation’s largest, family-owned onion growers and operates one of the largest, most innovative and sustainable fresh-cut onion processing plants in the world. In the 1980’s, farming brothers Steve and David Gill were asked by a salsa manufacturing company to provide diced onions for its products. Before then, the only way to wash, skin, slice, and dice onions was by hand in the kitchen. The Gills developed proprietary equipment and processes to peel, slice, dice, and deliver the first fresh cut onions.
Our Onions, renowned for the highest quality fresh onion products in the market today, are found in everything from salsa to spaghetti sauce to fast food chains and are available nationally to consumers in the fresh produce section of their supermarkets. Along the way, the Gills committed to growing and processing the highest quality, most flavorful Fresh Onions – and to exploring new technologies and methods to maximize conservation and efficiency.
We believe in a future where Gills Onions maintains its passion for innovation, social responsibility, quality, taste, flavor and good business practices to:
- Increase the visibility, awareness of health benefits, and consumption of our onions
- Provide the flexibility to allow for new opportunities and partnerships that meet the needs of all our stakeholders – including our employees, customers and the communities we serve
- Grow our leadership in the fresh produce processing industry
- Honor our caring legacy of commitment and stewardship to the land and our environment by educating our children in these practices
- Fulfill our Mission and commitments through independence, self-reliance, empowerment of others, fiscal stability, and resource conservation