Demma Fruit Company bases its origin back to 1937.  It was at this time Anthony Demma started the company  as nothing more then a street vendor. He would run a small truck into Chicago, pick his produce then sell it out of the truck on the streets of Lincoln. His market included house wife's and the restaurants in the city.

 As the company grew, he started buying direct from the growers, and opened a small facility in Lincoln. He added delivery trucks and the company grew from there. He supplied the many independent grocers as well as the schools and other institutions such as the military base and universities in the city.

 In 1979 he and his partner Mickey Messineo, sold the company to two brothers John and Dennis Jacobson. They were new to the industry, but learned from these original owners that stayed on part time. They saw that the industry was changing and to keep up with these changes, they built a new facility. They added a processing  operation as well as they started ripening and repacking of tomatoes.  They hired  Bob Cane to handle sales and with the efforts of the three the company grew and prospered.

In 1989, the company was sold to an investor group. That group had plans to use the good name and grow the company on a regional distributor. In ten years it had facilities in Lincoln, Omaha, Sioux Falls, SD., Des Moines, IA. , Kansas City, MO. Tulsa, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Because of some unforeseen circumstances the company shut its doors in September of 2000.

The company was not in existence till November of 2004. It was at that time through the encouragement of the food service industry in the Lincoln market it reopened its doors.  The new owners are John and Dennis Jacobson and Bob Cane. The three original members of the team that purchased the company back in 1979.

Their plans are to maintain a strong local produce company. They wish to recreate the original Demma's, as this is what the market wants.