Global Food Safety Initiative Management Training Fuels New Product Development

Mango Bottling Company, Inc., located in Cocoa, Florida, is a privately-owned standalone bottling company with over thirty years of experience. Mango’s 23 full-time employees do contract bottling of alcohol and wine spirits for other companies as well as bottling their own Tooters brand of spirits billed as "the original test tube shooter."

Mango Bottling Company, Inc., was doing business with a major distiller that began requiring suppliers to complete the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) management training curriculum and maintain a food safety plan.

Mango Bottling turned to FloridaMakes for assistance in developing a pathway to become compliant with the major distiller’s requirements. Dan Sutter, FloridaMakes Business Advisor, brought in a specialist in this field to train Mango Bottling employees in the Global Food Safety Initiative management training which also included a food safety plan. Mango’s employees learned many quality and efficiency techniques from the training that improved efficiencies in the operations of the business that proved crucial to the survival of the company during the COVID-19 pandemic. The increased efficiencies created enough savings to help launch a new Tooters line of wine-based products in 50ml bottles.