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Home » 2015 Dairy 100

2015 Dairy 100

Top 100 Dairy Companies

Dairy Foods’ 22nd annual report identifies the largest dairy processors in North America.

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Headquarters States of the Dairy 100

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Headquarters States of the Dairy 100

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The Dairy 100 List

Note: Code to Type (ownership): C=Cooperative; Pr=Privately held company; Pu=Publicly traded company; An asterisk on a sales figure denotes a Dairy Foods estimate.

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1. Nestlé USA

Glendale, CA

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Paul Grimwood, CEO

Type: Pu

Parent Company: Nestle, Vevey Switzerland

Fiscal Year End: 12/2014

Sales (in millions): $9,700.0 (2014) | $10,000.0 (2013) Annual Report

Dairy Brands: Dreyer’s/Edy’s Grand & Slow Churned, Dibs, Outshine, Drumstick, Push-Up, Frosty Paws, Eskimo Pie, Skinny Cow, Häagen-Dazs, Nesquik, Coffee-mate, Carnation Breakfast Essentials, Wonka

Products: Ice cream, novelties, sherbet, sorbet, frozen yogurt, milk-based beverages

Plants (9): California: Bakersfield (ice cream, sherbet, novelties, frozen desserts), Tulare (ice cream, novelties, frozen yogurt, sorbet); Illinois: Jacksonville (Coffee-mate creamer); Indiana: Fort Wayne (ice cream, novelties); Anderson (RTD flavored milk, liquid nondairy creamers); Iowa: Waverly (Nestle Carnation instant breakfast, hot cocoa, Coffee-mate, Nestea, Nesquik strawberry); Maryland: Laurel (ice cream, frozen desserts, novelties); New Jersey: Freehold (Taster’s Choice soluble coffee, Nestea soluble tea); Utah: Salt Lake City (ice cream, sherbet, frozen desserts).


2. Dean Foods Co.

Dallas, TX

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Gregg Tanner, CEO

Type: Pu

Fiscal Year End: 12/2014

Sales (in millions): $9,503.2 (2014) | $9,016.3 (2013) Annual Report

Dairy Brands: Alta Dena, Arctic Splash, Barbers Dairy, Barbe’s, Berkeley Farms, Broughton, Brown Cow, Brown’s Dairy, Bud’s Ice Cream, Chug, Country Fresh, Country Love, Creamland, Dairy Ease, DairyPure, Dean’s, Fieldcrest, Fruit Rush, Gandy’s, Garelick Farms, Hygeia, Jilbert, Knudsen (licensed brand) Land O Lakes (licensed brand), Land-O-Sun & design, Lehigh Valley Dairy Farms, Louis Trauth Dairy Inc., Mayfield, McArthur, Meadow Brook, Meadow Gold, Mile High Ice Cream, Model Dairy, Morning Glory, Nature’s Pride, Nurture, Nutty Buddy, Oak Farms, Over the Moon, Pet (licensed brand) Pog (licensed brand), Price’s, Purity, Reiter, Robinson, Saunders, Schepps, Shenandoah’s Pride, Stroh’s, Swiss Dairy, Swiss Premium, TruMoo, T.G. Lee, Tuscan, Turtle Tracks, Verifine, Viva

Products: milk, ice cream, cultured dairy products, creamers, juices, bottled water and teas

Plants (67): Alabama: Homewood (2); California: Buena Park, City of Industry (2), Hayward; Colorado: Englewood, Greeley; Florida: Deland, Miami, Orlando; Georgia: Braselton; Hawaii: Hilo, Honolulu; Idaho: Boise; Illinois: Belvidere, Harvard, Huntley, O’Fallon, Rockford; Indiana: Decatur, Huntington, Rochester; Iowa: LeMars; Kentucky: Louisville; Louisiana: New Orleans; Massachusetts: Franklin, Lynn; Michigan: Grand Rapids, Livonia, Marquette; Minnesota: Thief River Falls, Woodbury; Montana: Billings, Great Falls; Nevada: North Las Vegas, Reno; New Jersey: Florence; New Mexico: Albuquerque; New York: Rensselaer; North Carolina: High Point, Winston-Salem; North Dakota: Bismarck; Oklahoma: Tulsa; Ohio: Marietta, Springfield, Toledo; Pennsylvania: Erie, Lansdale, Lebanon, Schuylkill Haven, Sharpsville; South Carolina: Spartanburg; South Dakota: Sioux Falls; Tennessee: Athens, Nashville (2); Texas: Dallas, El Paso, Houston, Lubbock, McKinney, San Antonio; Utah: Orem, Salt Lake City; Virginia: Richmond; Wisconsin: Ashwaubenon.


3. Saputo Inc.

Montreal, Québec

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Lino A. Saputo Jr., CEO, Vice COB

Type: Pu

Fiscal Year End: 3/31/2015

Sales (in millions): $8,036.9 (2014) | $7,722.6 (2013) Revenues from Canada, USA. Total revenues = $9.39 billion Annual Report

Dairy Brands: Saputo, Alexis de Portneuf, Armstrong, Bari, Baxter, Black Creek, COON, Cracker Barrel1, Dairyland, DairyStar, Dragone, DuVillage 1860, Friendship, Frigo Cheese Heads, Great Midwest, Kingsey, La Paulina, Milk2Go/Lait’s Go, Mil Lel, Neilson, Nutrilait, Organic Creamery, Ricrem, Salemville, Scotsburn1, Stella, Sungold, Treasure Cave

Products: Cheese, fluid milk, extended shelf-life milk and cream products, cultured products and dairy ingredients, plant based foods and beverages

Plants (51): United States (24), including Cheese Division (USA): South Gate, Calif.; Tulare, Calif. (3); Newman, Calif.; Big Stone City, S.D.; Almena, Wis.; Green Bay, Wis.; Fond du Lac, Wis.; Lena, Wis.; Monroe, Wis.; Reedsburg, Wis.; Waupun, Wis.; Black Creek, Wis. (producing Mozzarella, Provolone, String, Parmesan, Romano, Asiago, Fontinella, Gorgonzola, Cheddar, Edam, Colby, Colby Jack, Fontina, Monterey Jack, Pepper Jack, Muenster, Lorraine, fresh frozen Mozzarella, snack sticks, WPC-80 instant and non-instant, WPC-34, dry sweet whey, acid whey, deproteinized whey powder, lactose, supervised kosher, shredding, cutting and packaging) & Dairy Foods Division (USA): Gustine, Calif.; Sulphur Springs, Texas; White Bear Lake, Minn.; Decatur, Ala; Murray, Ky.; Newington, Conn; Frederick, Md.; Fraser, N.Y. (producing ice cream mix, specialty beverages, half and half, whipping cream, dairy creamer, aerosol whipped topping); Tulare, Calif; Friendship, N.Y. (producing cottage cheese, sour cream, buttermilk, dry curd, Farmer’s cheese). CANADA (23), including Abbotsford, BC; Burnaby, BC; Courtenay, BC; Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Red Deer, AB; Saskatoon, SK; Brandon, MB; Georgetown, ON; Ottawa, ON; Tavistock, ON; Trenton, ON; Mont-Laurier, QC; Plessisville, QC; Saint-Hyacinthe, QC; Saint-Léonard, QC; Saint-Raymond de Portneuf, QC; Trois-Rivières, QC; Saint John, NB; Dartmouth, NS; Mount Pearl, NS; Sydney, NS (producing Mozzarella & Cheddar, Ricotta, Provolone, Parmesan, Feta & Havarti, Brie & Camembert, Brick, Colby, Farmer, Muenster & Monterey Jack, fresh curd, processed cheeses, fluid milk, cream, yogurt, sour cream, cottage cheese, butter, powdered milk, evaporated milk, ice cream mixes, whey powder, lactose & whey protein). Argentina (2), Australia (2).


4. Land O’Lakes Inc.

Arden Hills, MN

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Chris Policinski, President/CEO

Type: C

Fiscal Year End: 12/2014

Sales (in millions): $5,098.1 (2014) | $4,500.0 (2013) Annual Report

Dairy Brands: Land O Lakes, Kozy Shack, Alpine Lace, Sauté Express Seasoned Meal Starter

Products: Cheese, butter, yogurt, ingredients, pudding

Plants (8): California: Orland (cheese), Tulare (cheese, butter, cultured); Minnesota: Melrose-JV DFA (cheese), Pine Island (dried cheese/seasonings); Ohio: Kent (spreads); Pennsylvania: Carlisle (butter); Wisconsin: Kiel (cheese), Spencer (processed cheese)


5. Dairy Farmers of America Inc.

Kansas City, MO

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Rick Smith, President/CEO

Type: C

Fiscal Year End: 12/2014

Sales (in millions): $5,005.0 (2014) | $3,212.0 (2013)

Dairy Brands: Borden Cheese, Borden Butter, Breakstone’s, Cache Valley Cheese, Cache Valley Butter, California Gold, Cass-Clay Creamery, Dairy Maid Dairy, Falfurrias, Guida’s Milk, Hotel Bar, Keller’s Creamery, Kemps, La Vaquita, Oakhurst Dairy, Plugra, Sport Shake

Products: Fluid milk, chocolate milk, condensed milk, sweetened condensed milk, cream, buttermilk, cottage cheese, sour cream, yogurt, Greek yogurt, butter, cheese (American-style, Gouda, hard Italian, artisanal Hispanic, longhorn Cheddar, Monterey jack, pepper jack and specialty cheese), ice cream, sherbets, sorbets, ingredients, juice, fruit punch

Plants (34): California: Hughson (butter, condensed milk, cream, nonfat dry milk), Turlock (Italian-style cheese, liquid whey), Ventura (dairy-based coffee beverages); Colorado: Fort Morgan (condensed milk, cream, nonfat dry milk); Connecticut: New Britain (cream, ice cream mixes, milk, fruit drinks, fruit juices, water); Indiana: Goshen (condensed milk, cream, nonfat dry milk); Maine: Portland (butter, buttermilk, cottage cheese, cream, flavored milk, fluid milk, fruit juice, sour cream and tea); Maryland: Frederick (milk, juice, fruit drinks); Michigan: Adrian (condensed milk, cream, nonfat dry milk), Cass City (condensed milk, cream); Minnesota: Duluth (buttermilk, chocolate milk, creams, fluid milk, juices), Farmington (cottage cheese, dips, smoothies, sour cream), Minneapolis (fluid milk, other beverages), Rochester (two plants — fluid milk, ice cream, light ice cream, sherbets, yogurt-based drinks), Winthrop (anhydrous milk fat, butterfat blends, sweetened condensed milk), Zumbrota (American-style cheese, cream powders, fluid whey, Gouda, hard Italian, specialty cheese); Missouri: Cabool (adult nutritional beverages, dairy-based coffee beverages, energy protein beverages, Sport Shake), Springfield (dairy-based coffee beverages); Nevada: Fallon (whole milk powder, instant whole milk powder, nonfat dry milk, skim milk powder); New Mexico: Portales (condensed skim milk, cream, milk permeate powder, milk protein concentrate, nonfat and skim milk powders); New York: Linwood (cream, skim milk); North Dakota: Fargo (butter, cottage cheese, cream, dips, fluid milk, ice cream, juice, sour cream, yogurt); Pennsylvania: Mechanicsburg (dairy-based coffee beverages), Middlebury Center (condensed milk, cream, cream powder, malted milk powder, nonfat dry milk, skim milk powder, whole milk powder), New Wilmington (dry whey, Italian-style cheese), Reading (cream, condensed milk, malted milk powder, nonfat dry milk, skim milk powder, whole milk powder), West Middlesex (industrial shredded cheese, process cheese); Texas: Houston (artisanal Hispanic cheeses and creams), Schulenburg (dairy dips and salsa), Winnsboro (anhydrous milk fat, butter, buttermilk powder, nonfat dry milk, sweet cream); Utah: Beaver (condensed milk, cream, longhorn cheddar, Monterey jack, pepper jack cheeses); Wisconsin: Cedarburg (fluid milk, orange juice), Plymouth (cut and wrap natural cheese, process cheese, shreds)


6. Schreiber Foods

Green Bay, WI

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Michael J. Haddad, President/CEO

Type: Pr

Fiscal Year End: 10/1/2014

Sales (in millions): $5,000.0 (2014) | $4,500.0 (2013)

Dairy Brands:Schreiber, School Choice, Cooper, Clearfield Deli, La Feria, Menu, American Heritage, Pauly, Raskas, Ready-cut

Products: Cheese, cream cheese, blends, yogurt, yogurt drinks, dairy desserts, specialty cheeses

Plants (30): United States (16): Arizona: Tempe; California: Fullerton; Missouri: Carthage-2 plants, Clinton-2 plants, Monett, Mount Vernon; Pennsylvania: Shippensburg; Texas: Stephenville; Utah: Logan, Smithfield; Wisconsin: Green Bay, Richland Center-2 plants, West Bend. Other plants(14): Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany-2 plants, India, Mexico,Portugal, Slovakia, Spain-3 plants, Uruguay


7. Kraft Foods Cheese & Dairy Division

Northfield, IL

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Howard Friedman, President, Cheese & Dairy division

Type: Pu

Parent company: Kraft Foods Group

Fiscal Year End: 12/27/2014

Sales (in millions): $4,066.0 (2014) | $3,925.0 (2013) Annual Report

Dairy Brands: Athenos, Breakstone’s, Cracker Barrel, Fresh Take, Grated Parmesan, Knudsen, Natural Cheese, Philadelphia Cream Cheese, Polly-O, Singles, Velveeta

Products: Natural Cheese, Processed Cheese, Greek yogurt, cream cheese, sour cream, cottage cheese and cheese blends

Plants (10): California: Tulare; Illinois: Champaign; Minnesota: Albany; New Ulm; Missouri: Springfield; New York: Campbell, Lowville, Walton; Wisconsin: Beaver Dam, Wausau


8. Agropur Cooperative

Longueuil, Quebec

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Robert Coallier, CEO

Type: C

Fiscal Year End: 11/1/2014

Sales (in millions): $3,747.5 (2014) | $3,089.7 (2013) Converted from Cdn$. 2013 sales are re-stated. Acquired Davisco Foods, M. Larivee, Sobey’s dairy processing operations. Annual Report

Dairy Brands: ANCO, Iogo (joint venture with Ultima Foods), Natrel, Québon, Sealtest, Island Farms, Dyna Moo, Oka, Farmers, Central Dairies, Allegro, Damafro, masters Reserve, Iogo, Olympic

Products: Cheeses, butter, milk, specialty milk, yogurt

Plants (40): including Idaho: Jerome (acquired from Davisco, producing Cheddar, mozzarella, provolone, hard Italian cheeses, shredded cheeses, WPI, WPC, DPW, SDW); Iowa: Hull (cheese and ingredients); Michigan: Grand Rapids (Natrel division); Minnesota: LeSueur 2 plants acquired from Davisco (1-Cheddar, hard Italian cheeses, lactose, WPI, WPC, lactose; 2-custom processing), Maplewood (Schroeder milk); South Dakota: Lake Norden 2 plants acquired from Davisco (1-mozzarella, provolone, hard Italian cheeses, lactose, WPC, 2-custom processing); Wisconsin: La Crosse (Main Street Ingredients, cheese and ingredients); Little Chute (cheese and ingredients); Luxemburg (cheese and ingredients); Weyauwega (cheese and ingredients). Canada: Alberta: Edmonton 2 plants (formerly Sobeys), Lethbridge (cheese and ingredients); British Columbia: Burnaby (formerly Sobeys), Chilliwack (Natrel division), Delta (Ultima Foods Inc. joint venture, Olympic Dairy), Victoria (Natrel division, Island Farms); Manitoba: Winnipeg (formerly Sobeys); New Brunswick: Miramichi (milk);Ontario: Ottawa (Natrel division), Toronto (Natrel division), Woodstock (cheese and ingredients); Quebec: Amqui (Natrel division), Beauceville (cheese and ingredients), Granby (cheese and ingredients), Granby (Ultima Foods Inc. joint venture), Notre-Dame-du- Bon-Conseil (cheese and ingredients), Oka (fine cheese division), Plessisville (cheese and ingredients), Quebec City (Natrel division), Saint-Bruno (Natrel division), Saint-Hyacinthe (fine cheese division), Saint-Laurent (Natrel division). Argentina (2). Ferreyra (La Lacteo joint venture); Villa Del Rosario (La Lacteo joint venture).


9. Great Lakes Cheese Co.

Hiram, OH

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Dan Zagzebski, President/CEO

Type: Pr

Fiscal Year End: 12/2014

Sales (in millions): $3,150.0 (2014) | $2,628.0 (2013) 

Dairy Brands: Great Lakes, Adams Reserve, Rico Mia, American Accent, Thoughtful Organics

Products: Cheese, processed cheese, whey products

Plants (9): New York: Adams (Cheddar, Monterey Jack, WPC, WPI, other whey products), Cuba-Empire Cheese (mozzarella, provolone, whey products); Ohio: Hiram (cut/wrap); Utah: Filmore (cut/wrap); Wisconsin: LaCrosse (processed cheese), Plymouth (cut/wrap), Seymour (blue cheese), Wausau (cut/wrap); Tennessee: Manchester (cut/wrap)


10. Leprino Foods Co.

Denver, CO

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: James Leprino, Chairman

Type: Pr

Fiscal Year End: 12/2014

Sales (in millions): $3,059.1* (2014) | $2,750.0* (2013) 

Dairy Brands: Proprietary brands

Products: Mozzarella, reduced-fat Monterey jack, provolone, reduced-fat Cheddar, cheese blends, whey protein concentrate, whey protein isolate, sweet whey, and lactose

Plants (9 USA): California: Lemoore East (cheese, dairy powders), Lemoore West (cheese, dairy powders), Tracy (cheese, dairy powders); Colorado: Fort Morgan (Cheese, dairy powders), Greeley (cheese, dairy powders); Michigan: Allendale (Cheese, dairy powders), Remus (cheese, diary powders); New Mexico: Roswell (cheese, dairy powders); New York: Waverly (cheese, dairy powders). 2 joint venture plants with Glanbia plc in Northern Ireland, Wales


11. Prairie Farms Dairy

Carlinville, IL

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Edward L. Mullins, CEO/Executive VP

Type: C

Fiscal Year End: 9/2014

Sales (in millions): $2,993.0 (2014) | $2,781.0 (2013) 

Dairy Brands: Prairie Farms Dairy, Highland Dairy, Roberts Dairy, Turner Dairy, Coleman Dairy, LuVel, Southern Belle, Tiller Foods, Swiss Valley, Muller Pinehurst, Belfonte, North Star

Products: Milk, egg nog, buttermilk, cottage cheese, sour cream, yogurt, butter, ice cream, novelties, sherbets, sorbets, juice, fruit punch, iced tea, coffee beverages

Plants (35): Illinois: Carlinville (milk, fruit drinks); Carbondale (cultured); Decatur (frozen dessert, ice cream); Granite City (milk, cream products, ice cream mix, iced coffee); O’Fallon (ice cream, ice cream mix); Olney (milk); Peoria (milk); Quincy (cultured); Springfield (ice cream mix); Indiana: Anderson (milk, juice/drinks, teas, ice cream mix); Ft. Wayne (milk, cultured, ice cream mix, drinks); Holland (milk, juice/drinks); Lafayette (novelties); Iowa: Dubuque (milk, juice/drinks); Kentucky: Somerset (milk, juice/drinks); Michigan: Battle Creek (milk, juice/drinks); Mississippi: Kosciusko (milk, juice/drinks, ice cream mix); Missouri: Jefferson City (milk, juice/drinks, cultured, ice cream, ice cream mix); St. Louis (novelties); Ohio: Dayton (creamers). Joint Venture Facilities -- Highland Dairy Foods (DFA): Kansas: Kansas City (ice cream, cultured); Springfield (milk, juice/drinks, ice cream mixes); Arkansas: Fayetteville (milk, juice); Ft. Smith (milk, fruit drink/juice); Kansas: Wichita (milk, cultured, fruit drink, ice cream mix); Oklahoma: Chandler (milk, juice/drinks, ice cream mix, cultured); Norman, (milk, fruit drink). Highland Dairy: Missouri: Kansas City (milk, juice/drinks); Nebraska: Norfolk (ice cream), Omaha (milk, sour cream, ice cream mix, fruit juice/drink); Turner Dairy (Prairie Farms/Highland): Arkansas: Little Rock (milk, juice/ drinks); Kentucky: Fulton (milk, fruit drink/juice); Tennessee: Memphis (milk, juice/drinks, ice cream mix); Muller Pinehurst (Midwest Dairymen’s Co-op): Illinois: Rockford (milk, drinks, ice cream, ice cream mix); Madison Farms (Land O’Lakes): Missouri: St. Louis (butter oil)


12. Grupo LaLa

Mexico City, Mexico

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Arquimedes Celis, CEO

Type: Pu

Fiscal Year End: 12/2014

Sales (in millions): $2,904.1 (2014) | $3,323.5 (2013) Converted from Mexican pesos. Annual Report

Dairy Brands: LaLa

Products: Milk, functional dairy products

Plants (1): Mexico.


13. Kroger Co. The

Cincinnati, OH

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Erin Sharp, Group VP Manufacturing

Type: Pu

Fiscal Year End: 1/2014

Sales (in millions): $2,901.4* (2014) | $2,475.0* (2013) Annual Report

Dairy Brands: Kroger, Private Selection, Turkey Hill, Simple Truth, regional banner brands

Products: Milk, cottage cheese, yogurt, sour cream, dips, organic milk, juices, drinks, water, ice cream, novelties, tea, whipping cream, process cheese, natural cheese

Plants (19): Arizona: Tolleson (Tolleson Dairy); California: Compton (Compton Creamery), Riverside (Riverside Creamery); Colorado: Denver (Mountain View Dairy); Georgia: Atlanta (Centennial Farms Dairy); Indiana: Indianapolis (Crossroad Farms Dairy), Crawfordsville (Pace Dairy of Indiana); Kansas: Hutchinson (Jackson Dairy); Kentucky: Winchester (Winchester Dairy Farms); Michigan: Livonia (Michigan Dairy); Minnesota: Rochester (Pace Dairy); Ohio: Cincinnati (Springdale Ice Cream & Beverage), Newark (Tamarack Farms Dairy); Oregon: Portland (Swan Island Dairy); Pennsylvania: Conestoga (Turkey Hill Dairy); Tennessee: Murfreesboro (Heritage Farms Dairy); Texas: Fort Worth (Vandervoort’s Dairy); Utah: Layton (Layton Dairy); Virginia: Lynchburg (Westover Dairy)


14. Parmalat North America

Toronto, Canada

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Alnashir Lakha, President/CEO

Type: Pu

Parent company: Lactalis Group, France

Fiscal Year End: 12/2014

Sales (in millions): $2,863.0 (2014) | $3,223.0 (2013) Annual Report

Last year listed as Lactalis American Group

Dairy Brands: Astro, Beatrice, Black Diamond, Galbani, Lactantia, Precious, President, Sorrento

Products: Milk, buttermilk, cream, ice cream mix, sour cream, yogurt, cottage cheese, butter, French cheeses, Italian cheese, dairy ingredients, soy beverages

Plants (21): 17 in Canada, 4 in USA, including: California, Tipton (fresh mozzarella); Idaho, Nampa (mozzarella, snacks); New York: Buffalo (mozzarella, provolone, ricotta); Wisconsin: Merrill (cheese spreads). Canada (17). Alberta: Calgary (milk, cream, milk shake and ice cream mixes, buttermilk); Lethbridge (yogurt, sour cream, cottage cheese); Manitoba: Grunthal (cheese); St. Claude (butter, milk powders, evaporated products); Winnipeg (milk, cream, milk shake and ice cream mixes); Ontario: Belleville (cheese); Brampton (milk, cream, milk shake and ice cream mixes, soy beverages, lactose reduced products, eggnog), Mitchell (butter, cream cheese, evaporated products, SWC); Niagara on the Lake (yogurt, sour cream, yogurt drinks); Sudbury (milk cream, milk shake and ice cream mixes, buttermilk); Thunder Bay (milk, cream); Rakely (yogurt, sour cream); Winchester (butter, cheese, whey powder and liquids, skim powder and liquids, buttermilk powders, margarine cups); Quebec: Laverlochere (butter, evaporated products, milk powders); Marieville (cheese, cream, concentrated whey); Montreal (milk, cream, milk shake and ice cream mixes, buttermilk, eggnog); St. Hyacinthe (milk, cream); Victoriaville (butter, cheese, evaporated products, milk powders, margarine, special ingredient powders)


15. California Dairies Inc.

Visalia, CA

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Andrei Mikhalevsky, President/CEO

Type: C

Fiscal Year End: 12/2014

Sales (in millions): $2,800.0 (2014) | $2,100.0 (2013) 

Dairy Brands: California Dairies, Challenge Dairy Products, Danish Creamery

Products: Butter, ingredients, powdered milk, AMF, cream cheese, UF products, cream and condensed

Plants (6): California: Artesia (standardized milk, cream, condensed, powder); Fresno (butter, powder, cream, condensed); Los Banos (powder, cream cheese, cream, condensed, UF products); Tipton (butter, powder, cream, condensed); Turlock (butter, powder); Visalia (butter, AMF, powder, cream, condensed)


16. Darigold Inc.

Seattle, WA

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Bill Krippaehne, Interim President & CEO

Type: C

Fiscal Year End: 3/2015

Sales (in millions): $2,600.0 (2014) | $2,600.0 (2013) 

Dairy Brands: Darigold

Products: Fluid milk, egg nog, buttermilk, cottage cheese, sour cream, butter, Cheddar cheese, Monterey Jack cheese, dairy ingredients

Plants (11): Idaho: Boise (fluid milk, ultra-pasteurized fluid products, cultured products); Caldwell (nonfat dry milk, skim milk powder, milk protein concentrate, bulk cream, butter, buttermilk powder); Jerome (nonfat dry milk, skim milk powder, milk protein concentrate, ultra-filtered milk products, bulk cream, condensed products); Washington: Issaquah (cultured products, butter); Seattle (fluid milk); Spokane (fluid milk, sour cream); Chehalis (nonfat dry milk, skim milk powder, whole milk powder, other dry dairy ingredients, bulk cream, whey, whey protein concentrate, buttermilk powder); Linden (nonfat dry milk, skim milk powder, other dry dairy ingredients, bulk cream); Sunnyside (cheese, dry whey, whey protein concentrate); Oregon: Portland (ultra-pasteurized fluid products); Montana: Bozeman (fluid milk)


17. Hilmar Cheese Co.

Hilmar, CA

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: John Jeter, President/CEO

Type: Pr

Fiscal Year End: 12/2014

Sales (in millions): $2,500.0 (2014) | $2,000.0 (2013) 

Dairy Brands: None

Products: Natural-style cheeses (Cheddar, Monterey Jack, Pepper Jack, Colby and Colby Jack), WPC, WPI, WPH, lactose

Plants (2): California: Hilmar (40-pound and 640-pound block natural American-style cheeses, Cheddar, Monterey Jack, Pepper Jack, Colby and Colby Jack, WPC, WPI, WPH; lactose); Texas, Dalhart (40-pound and 640-pound block natural cheeses, Cheddar, Monterey Jack, Pepper Jack, Colby and Colby Jack; WPC, WPI)


18. WhiteWave Foods

Broomfield, CO

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Blaine E. McPeak , President, Americas Foods & Beverages; Gregg L. Engles, CEO

Type: Pu

Fiscal Year End: 12/2014

Sales (in millions): $2,350.8 (2014) | $2,085.4 (2013) Annual Report

Sales are for Americas Foods & Beverages segment. Total sales were $3.4 billion.

Dairy Brands: Alpro (Europe), Silk, International Delight and Land O Lakes (licensed brand) coffee creamers and beverages, Horizon Organics, TruMoo (licensed brand) single serve milk boxes

Products: Plant-based foods and beverages (almond, soy), coffee creamers and beverages, organic dairy products

Plants (7 USA, 3 Europe): California: City of Industry, San Juan Bautista; Florida: Jacksonville; New Jersey: Bridgeton; Pennsylvania: DuBois; Texas: Dallas; Virginia: Mt. Crawford. Europe: Wevelgem, Belgium; Issenheim, France; Kettering, UK


19. Glanbia Foods Inc.

Twin Falls, ID

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Jeff Williams, President/CEO

Type: Pu

Parent company: Glanbia PLC, Kilkenny, Ireland

Fiscal Year End: 12/2014

Sales (in millions): $2,326.0 (2014) | $1,950.0 (2013) Annual Report

USA sales, converted from euros. Total sales were 3.5 billion euros.

Dairy Brands: None

Products: Cheese (barrels and blocks), conventional and organic cheeses including Cheddar, Colby, Colby Jack, pepper Jack, Monterey Jack, Muenster, Asadero, queso quesadilla, whey products

Plants (4): Idaho: Blackfoot (cheese), Gooding (cheese/whey products), Twin Falls (cheese); New Mexico: Clovis (cheese/whey products), a Southwest Cheese joint venture


20. HP Hood LLC

Lynnfield, MA

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: John A. Kaneb, President/Chairman/CEO

Type: Pr

Fiscal Year End: 12/2014

Sales (in millions): $2,300.0 (2014) | $2,300.0 (2013) 

Dairy Brands: Axelrod, Booth Bros., Brigham’s Ice Cream, Calorie Countdown, Crowley Foods, Green’s, Hagan, Heluva Good!, Hood, Maggio, Penn Maid, Rosenberger’s, Simply Smart. Licensed Brands: Baileys Coffee Creamers, Blue Diamond Almond Breeze, Fiber One Cottage Cheese, Hershey’s Milk & Milkshakes, LACTAID, Southern Comfort egg nog

Products: Fluid milk, egg nog, buttermilk, cottage cheese, sour cream, yogurt, Greek yogurt, ice cream, sherbets sorbets, novelties, juice, fruit punch, iced tea, other nondairy beverages

Plants (14): California: Sacramento (aseptic and UHT fluid products); Connecticut: Suffield (ice cream, novelties, frozen desserts); Maine: Portland (milk); Massachusetts: Agawam (milk, juices, drinks); New Hampshire: Concord (fluid); New York: Arkport (cultured), LaFargeville (cultured), Oneida (UHT fluid products), Sodus (cheese), Vernon (cultured), Wolcott (cheese and spreads); Pennsylvania: Philadelphia (UHT products); Virginia: Winchester (aseptic and UHT fluid products); Vermont: Barre (milk)


21. Associated Milk Producers Inc.

New Ulm, MN

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Donn DeVelder, Sheryl Meshke, co-president/CEO

Type: C

Fiscal Year End: 12/2014

Sales (in millions): $2,200.0 (2014) | $1,800.0 (2013) 

Dairy Brands: AMPI, private label

Products: Cheese, processed cheese, butter, bulk fluid milk, whey, nonfat dry milk, lactose, WPC-34, buttermilk, permeate, ice cream mix

Plants (10): Iowa: Arlington (condensed skim milk, NFDM, SMP, sweet cream), Sanborn (Cheddar, condensed whey); Minnesota: New Ulm (butter, condensed buttermilk), Paynesville (Cheddar, condensed whey, condensed WPC, WPC-34, WPC-80), Rochester (Cheddar, Colby, Monterey Jack, Condensed WPC, lactose, ice cream mix); South Dakota: Freeman (low-heat NFDM, high-heat NFDM, super high-heat NFDM, sweet cream), Hoven (Parmesan, Asiago, Romano, condensed whey); Wisconsin: Blair (Aged Cheddar, Mild Cheddar, condensed whey, whey), Jim Falls (Cheddar, Colby, Monterey Jack, Pepper Jack, Party Jack, buttermilk, whey, condensed whey), Portage (processed cheese slices, processed cheese loaf, shredded natural cheese, natural cheese chunks)


22. Shamrock Farms Dairy Division

Phoenix, AZ

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Kent McClelland, CEO

Type: Pr

Parent company: Shamrock Foods, Phoenix, AZ

Fiscal Year End: 12/2014

Sales (in millions): $2,109.8* (2014) | $375.0* (2013) 

Dairy Brands: Shamrock Farms, Rockin’ Refuel

Products: Milk, organic milk, whipping cream, sour cream, cottage cheese, creamers, ice cream, novelties

Plants (2): Arizona: Phoenix (milk, organic milk, whipping cream, sour cream, cottage cheese, creamers, ice cream, novelties); Virginia: Verona (milk)


23. The Dannon Co.

White Plains, NY

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Mariano Lozano, CEO/President

Type: Pu

Parent company: Groupe Danone S.A., France

Fiscal Year End: 12/2014

Sales (in millions): $2,100.0 (2014) | $2,000.0 (2013) 

Dairy Brands: Dannon, Activia, Oikos, Light & Fit, Danimals, Dan-o-nino, YoCream

Products: Yogurt, Greek yogurt, drinkable yogurts, smoothies, frozen yogurt

Plants (4): Ohio: Minster (yogurt and dairy drinks); Oregon: Portland (frozen yogurt); Texas: Ft. Worth (yogurt); Utah: West Jordan (yogurt and dairy drinks)


24. Borden Dairy Co.

Dallas, TX

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Michael A. Bell, COO

Type: Pr

Fiscal Year End: 12/2014

Sales (in millions): $2,000.0* (2014) | $2,000.0 (2013) 

Dairy Brands: Borden, LaLa, Promised Land, Skim Plus, Frusion

Products: Milk, ESL milk, cream, egg nog, buttermilk, cottage cheese, dips, sour cream, frozen dessert mixes, milkshake mixes, juices, drinks

Plants (20): Alabama: Cowarts (milk), Pritchard (milk); Colorado: Colorado Springs (milk, buttermilk, cottage cheese, creams, dips, sour cream)’ Georgia: Decatur (frozen dessert mixes); Florida: Miami ( milk, cream, eggnog), Winter Haven (milk, cream); Kentucky: London (milk), Madisonville ( milk, cream); Louisiana: Baker (milk, eggnog), Lafayette (milk, buttermilk); Mississippi: Hattiesburg (milk); Nebraska: Omaha (yogurt); New Jersey: Wallington (milk, ESL milk, cream); Ohio: Cleveland (milk, cottage cheese, dips, cream, sour cream, yogurt), Cincinnati (milk); South Carolina: Charleston (milk, buttermilk, cream); Texas: Austin (milk, cream, juice/drinks, milkshake mixes), Conroe (milk, cream), Dallas (milk, cream), Floresville (milk, eggnog)


25. Foremost Farms USA

Baraboo, WI

DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Michael Doyle, President/CEO

Type: C

Fiscal Year End: 12/2014

Sales (in millions): $1,982.0 (2014) | $1,754.9 (2013) 

Dairy Brands: Foremost Farms USA, 1950 127 Brand, Fratellino, Teklac, Daritek, Fast Flo

Products: Cheese (mozzarella, provolone, Cheddar), butter, bulk fluid milk, whey products

Plants (12): Minnesota: Preston (specialty WPC, condensed skim milk); Wisconsin (11): Appleton (LMPS mozzarella, LMWM mozzarella, reduced-fat mozzarella, provolone, smoked provolone, WPC, dry permeate); Chilton (LMPS mozzarella, provolone, smoked provolone, WPC, permeate, condensed skim milk, cream); Clayton (provolone, smoked provolone, condensed WPC, condensed permeate); Lancaster (milled Cheddar, milled marbled Cheddar, condensed whey, condensed WPC, condensed permeate); Marshfield (colored Cheddar, white Cheddar, Colby, farmers cheese, low-fat Cheddar, Monterey jack, condensed whey); Milan (LMPS mozzarella, LMWM mozzarella, reduced-fat mozzarella, reduced-sodium mozzarella, provolone, smoked provolone, asadero, condensed WPC, condensed permeate); Plover (lactose, whole whey powder, organic whole whey powder, organic demineralized whey, WPC powder, heat stable WPC, reduced-minerals whey powder, reduced-minerals WPC, reduced-minerals WPC condensed, buttermilk powder); Reedsburg (butter condensed skim milk, condensed buttermilk, sweet cream); Richland Center (LMPS mozzarella, LMWM mozzarella, condensed whey, WPC, whole whey powder, permeate); Rothschild (dry permeate-feedgrade, pharmaceutical lactose, edible lactose, dry whey-feedgrade); Sparta (grade a nonfat dry milk, grade A cream, grade A condensed whole milk, grade a condensed skim milk, grade A bulk fluid milk, WPC powder, heat stable WPC, cultured skim milk powder, buttermilk powder).


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