Stemilt Growers, Inc., headquartered in Wenatchee, Wash., is a family-owned tree fruit grower-packer-shipper.  As one of the leaders in U.S. tree fruit, we ship nearly 12 percent of Washington's apples each year and 10 percent of the pears from the Northwest.  Stemilt is also the nation's leading sweet-cherry shipper, supplying 25 percent of the sweet cherries grown in Washington.