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Aunt Ruby’s Peanuts Proves Home-Grown Success
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Local resources can often be one of the most valuable assets to a successful business. For Aunt Ruby’s Peanuts in Enfield, proximity to some of the South’s finest peanut crops is the key to success.
“We only process peanuts that have been grown in northeast North Carolina,” says Bob Allsbrook, president of A&B Milling, the company that produces Aunt Ruby’s peanut products. “We believe in buying locally.”
Allsbrook’s father and uncle founded the A&B Milling Company in 1945 as a feed, seed and fertilizer store that served local farmers. Since then, the business has carved a niche with its gourmet peanut products that range from cocktail peanuts to chocolate peanut clusters.
“I like supplying a product that people want and like,” Allsbrook says. “People have just been very supportive in buying and sharing our product.”
The Virginia-style peanuts, which are ordered primarily online, are distributed nationally from the company’s plant in Enfield.
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Story by Brandon Lowe
