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.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Kees Kruythoff, President North America
Type: Pu
Parent Company: Unilever, London and Rotterdam, NL
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $1,670.0* (2016) | $1,613.2* (2015) Estimated revenues of Refreshment segment in the United States. Annual Report
Dairy Brands: Ben & Jerry's, Breyers, Popsicle, Klondike, Good Humor, Magnum, Fruttare, Talenti, Lipton, Pure Leaf.
Products: Ice cream, gelato, novelties, tea-based beverages.
Plants (6): Georgia: Marietta (Talenti); Missouri: Sikeston 2 (Good Humor, Klondike, Popsicle, Breyers, Magnum); Nevada: Henderson (Good Humor, Klondike, Popsicle, Breyers, Ben and Jerry's); Tennessee: Covington (Good Humor, Fruttare, Klondike, Popsicle, Breyers); Vermont: St. Albans (Ben & Jerry's, Breyers, Good Humor), Waterbury (Ben & Jerry's).
New Ulm, MN
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Donn DeVelder, Sheryl Meshke, co-president/CEO
Type: C
Fiscal Year End: 11/30
Sales (in millions): $1,600.0 (2016) | $1,700.0 (2015) Annual Report
Dairy Brands: Brands: AMPI, private label
Products: Cheese, processed cheese, butter, bulk fluid milk, whey, nonfat dry milk, lactose, WPC-34, WPC-80, buttermilk, permeate, ice cream mix.
Plants: 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).
Baraboo, WI
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Michael Doyle, President/CEO
Type: C
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $1,500.0 (2016) | $1,500.0 (2015)
Dairy Brands: Foremost Farms USA, 1950 127 Brand, Fratellino, Teklac, Daritek, Nutritek, Fast Flo.
Products: Cheese (mozzarella, provolone, Cheddar, Muenster), butter, bulk fluid milk, whey products.
Plants: Minnesota: Preston (specialty WPC, condensed skim milk, nonfat dry 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).
Norwich, NY
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Hamdi Ulukaya, Founder, CEO
Type: Pr
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $1,500.0 (2016) | $1,500.0* (2015)
Dairy Brands: Chobani, Gippsland Dairy.
Products: Greek yogurt, beverages, dips.
Plants (3): New York: South Edmeston; Idaho: Twin Falls; Australia: Dandenong South
New Holland, PA
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Alex Bongrain, Chairman
Type: Pu
Parent Company: Savencia Fromage & Dairy, Viroflay, France
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $1,410.0 (2016) | $1,393.7 (2015) Revenues are from Savencia's non-European operations, and are converted from euros. Includes Advanced Food Products, Alouette and Zausner. Annual Report
Dairy Brands: Alouette, Andersen’s, Chavrie, Holsberg, Il Villagio, Ile de France, Saint André, Saladena, Cheese Sauce, Cream Dessert, Nutritional Drinks, Montrachet, Café Classics, Flor de Ronda.
Products: Cheese, cream cheese, cheese sauce, dips, spread, puddings, dairy beverages.
Plants (7): California: City of Industry (cheese); Los Angeles (cream cheese); Illinois: Lena (cheese); Pennsylvania: New Holland (cream cheese). SFI Corp: New Jersey: Fairfield (specialty cheeses). Advanced Food Products: California: Visalia (cheese sauce, dips, puddings, spreads, dairy beverages), Pennsylvania: New Holland; Wisconsin: Clearlake (cheese sauce, dips, puddings, spreads, dairy beverages).
Plymouth, WI
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Louie Gentine, CEO
Type: Pr
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $1,300.0 (2016) | $1,300.0 (2015)
Dairy Brands: Sargento.
Products: Cut, package and market natural cheese shreds, slices and snacks; battered and breaded appetizers and sauces.
Plants (3): Wisconsin: Plymouth (shredded natural cheeses, sliced natural cheeses, snack natural cheeses); Kiel (IQF battered, breaded appetizers, sliced natural cheeses, shredded natural cheeses, cheese dip snacks); Hilbert (refrigerated and shelf-stable sauces, processed cheeses, chunk cheeses and snacks).
Boise, ID
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Evan Rainwater, SVP Manufacturing
Type: Pr
Parent Company: Albertsons Cos.
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $1,177.0* (2016) | $1,671.6* (2015) Albertsons acquired Safeway in 2015. Estimated revenues of dairy operations only.
Dairy Brands: Lucerne, Safeway Select, Safeway Kitchens, O Organics, Eating Right, Open Nature, Value Corner, Jerseymaid, Refreshe.
Products: Fluid milk, creams, egg nog, cultured dairy products,water, juice, ice cream, nondairy ice cream, water ice novelties.
Plants (8): Arizona: Tempe (milk, juice/drinks), Phoenix (ice cream, novelties, frozen dessert mixes); California: City of Commerce/Los Angeles (milk, cultured, cultured drinks, juice/drinks), San Leandro (milk, juice/drinks, ultra-pasteurized fluid products); Colorado: Denver (milk, cultured, juice/drinks); Oregon: Clackamas (milk, cultured, juice/drinks); Washington: Bellevue-2 (1-milk, water, cultured; 2-ice cream, novelties)
San Antonio, TX
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Ken Jorgensen, director of dairy operations
Type: Pr
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $1,150.0* (2016) | $1,100.0* (2015)
Dairy Brands: H-E-B, Hill Country Fare.
Products: Milk, egg nog, ice cream, yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream.
Plants (3): Texas: Houston (milk, drinks, water), San Antonio-2 (both milk, beverages, cultured, ice cream, novelties, frozen desserts).
Minneapolis, MN
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: David Clark, President, Yogurt
Type: Pu
Fiscal Year End: 5/28
Sales (in millions): $1,064.3 (2016) | $1,302.7 (2015) Annual Report
Dairy Brands: Yoplait (Original, Light, Dippers, Thick & Creamy, Thick & Creamy Light, Lactose Free, Greek 100 Protein, Greek 100 Whips, Greek 2% Whips, Whips, Go Big, Go-GURT, Custard Yogurt, Yoplait Kids, Trix), Mountain High, Liberte, Annie’s Organic Whole Milk Yogurt .
Products: Yogurt, Greek yogurt.
Plants (3): California: Carson; Michigan: Reed City; Tennessee: Murfreesboro.
Le Mars, IA
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Michael C. Wells, President/CEO
Type: Pr
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $1,030.0 (2016) | $1,028.0 (2015)
Dairy Brands: Blue Bunny, Bomb Pop, Blue Ribbon Classics, Sorbabes, Weight Watchers frozen novelties (licensed)
Products: Ice cream, novelties, sherbet, sorbet
Plants (2): Iowa: Le Mars, 2 (packaged ice cream, frozen novelties, frozen yogurt, frozen desserts).
Belleview, Florida 34421-3790
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Paul Bikowitz, CEO
Type: C
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $1,000.0* (2016) | Not listed (2015)
Dairy Brands: None.
Products: Milk, ultra-pasteurized milk, coffee creams, concentrated milk.
Plants (2): Florida: Plant City (milk, ultra-pasteurized milk, creams); Georgia: Baconton (creams, concentrated milk).
Plymouth, WI
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Jeff Gentine, Co-owner, President, CEO
Type: Pr
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $1,000.0 (2016) | $1,001.0 (2015)
Dairy Brands: Wisconsin Premium.
Products: Cheese (in retail, foodservice and industrial formats), cheese-related items.
Plants (1): Wisconsin: Plymouth (cheese: shreds, bars and chunks, natural slices, snack sticks, dices and cubes, prints and loaves, bulk/industrial cheese Plants (30 to 640 lb. blocks).
Austin, MN
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Donald H. Kremin, Group VP, Specialty Foods
Type: Pu
Parent Company: Hormel Foods
Fiscal Year End: 10/30
Sales (in millions): $939.1 (2016) | $1,100.0 (2015) Revenues are for Hormel's entire Specialty Foods segment only. Annual Report
Dairy Brands: Muscle Milk, Hormel Vital Cuisine, Di Lusso Deli, Herdez.
Products: Whey products, cheese, dry dairy ingredients, ready-to-drink and powder drinks, dysphagia drink mix, liquid portion products, dessert mixes, sports nutrition products, weight gain/weight loss products, electrolyte mix, fiber additives, creatine mix, gelatin products, salsas.
Plants (6): Specialty Foods processing plants. Georgia: Tucker; Illinois: Aurora, Rochelle; Pennsylvania: Quakertown; Wisconsin: Beloit, Sparta (cheese, whey products, dry dairy ingredients, ready-to-drink and powder drinks).
Andover, MA
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Ed Townley, CEO
Type: C
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $912.0 (2016) | $917.0 (2015)
Dairy Brands: Cabot, McCadam, Agri-Mark.
Products: Cottage cheese, sour cream, Greek yogurt, butter, cheese (Cheddar, Muenster), ingredients, whey proteins.
Plants (4): Massachusetts: West Springfield (butter, cream, condensed products, NFDM); New York: Chateaugay (Cheddar, Muenster, specialty cheese); Vermont: Cabot (Cheddar, cultured), Middlebury (Cheddar, whey protein).
Rosemont, IL
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Mark Piper, President/COO
Type: C
Parent Company: Fonterra, New Zealand
Fiscal Year End: 7/1
Sales (in millions): $873.5 (2016) | $802.9 (2015) Converted from NZ$. Total company revenues = US$11,512 billion Annual Report
Dairy Brands: Mainland, Anchor,Anlene, Anmum, NZMP.
Products: Cheese, cream, butter, whey proteins, milk proteins, casein/caseinates, organics.
Plants (9): Iowa: Allerton (whey powder); Minnesota: Dalbo (hard Italian cheeses); Missouri: El Dorado Springs (whey powders); Pennsylvania: Hummelstown (flavor systems); South Dakota: Pollock (hard Italian cheeses); Wisconsin: Bruce (whey powder dry/blend facility); Chili (grated Italian cheeses), Greenwood (grated Italian cheeses). DairiConcepts joint venture in Springfield, Mo.
Fitchburg, WI
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Matthias Kunz, EVP Americas
Type: Pu
Parent Company: Emmi AG, Switzerland
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $835.7 (2016) | $851.8 (2015) Sales for the Americas division, converted from CHF. The division includes the United States, Canada, Chile, Spain, France and Tunisia. Annual Report
Dairy Brands: Emmi USA, Roth, Kindred Creamery, Cowgirl Creamery, Redwood Hill, Cypress Grove.
Products: Aged and fresh specialty cheeses, goat's milk cheeses and kefir.
Plants (5): California: Arcata (Cypress Grove), Point Reyes Station (Cowgirl Creamery), Sebastopol (Redwood Hill Farm); Wisconsin: Monroe (Emmi Roth specialty cheese production and curing), Platteville (Emmi Roth specialty cheese production and curing).
Novi, MI
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Joe Diglio, General Manager
Type: C
Fiscal Year End: 9/30
Sales (in millions): $804.6 (2016) | $892.4 (2015)
Dairy Brands: MMPA.
Products: Cream, condensed milk products, milk powders, butter, cheese, ingredients.
Plants (3): Michigan: Ovid (cream, condensed milk products, milk powders, whole milk powder, butter); Constantine (cream, condensed milk products, milk powders, butter and reverse osmosis processing). Indiana: Middlebury: (cheese)
Buffalo, NY
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Lawrence C. Webster, CEO
Type: C
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $789.4 (2016) | $775.5 (2015)
Dairy Brands: Upstate Farms, Bison, Intense Milk, Valley Farms, Gold Cow.
Products: Milk, ice cream mix, yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream, dips, evaporated milk, powders, butter, condenses, liquid milk protein concentrate, organic, kosher.
Plants (6): New York: Batavia (milk-based beverages, powders, butter, evaporated milk, liquid milk protein concentrate), Buffalo (milk, juice, ice cream mix), Rochester (milk, cream), West Seneca (yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream, dips), North Lawrence (yogurt); Pennsylvania: Williamsport (milk, half & half, heavy cream, single serve drinks, buttermilk, soft serve mix).
Tempe, AZ
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Keith Murfield, CEO
Type: C
Fiscal Year End: 9/1
Sales (in millions): $753.3 (2016) | $800.1 (2015)
Dairy Brands: Arizona Farms, Seal of Arizona.
Products: Milk, powders, milk proteins, butter, condensed products, cream, lactose.
Plants (1): Arizona: Tempe (milk, powder, proteins, butter, condensed, cream, lactose).
Columbus, OH
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: John B. Gerlach Jr., Chairman/President/ CEO of parent co.
Type: Pu
Parent Company: Lancaster Colony Corp.
Fiscal Year End: 6/30
Sales (in millions): $750.0* (2016) | $728.0 (2015) Total retail net sales for calendar year, including nondairy food items. Annual Report
Dairy Brands: Marzetti, T. Marzetti, Simply Dressed, Cardini's Girard's.
Products: Refrigerated salad dressings (dairy and nondairy), shelf-stable salad dressings, vegetable dips, fruit dips, sauces.
Plants (3): California: Militas (sauces, dressings); Kentucky: Horse Cave (sauces, dressings); Ohio: Columbus (sauces, dressings, dips, sour cream).
La Farge, WI
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: George Siemon, CEO
Type: C
Parent Company: CROPP Cooperative
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $705.1 (2016) | $1,040.0 (2015)
Dairy Brands: Organic Valley, Organic Prairie, Purity Farms, Stonyfield, Kingdom
Products: Milk, cheese, yogurt, cultured, powders, soy beverages, eggs, meat, produce
Plants (3): Wisconsin: Chaseburg (organic butters, ghee, skim reload); LaFarge (organic cheese conversion to retail)
Tillamook, OR
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Patrick Criteser, President/CEO
Type: C
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $688.0* (2016) | $654.7* (2015)
Dairy Brands: Tillamook, Bandon.
Products: Cheddar cheese varieties (medium, sharp, extra sharp, smoked, reduced fat and Kosher), Monterey Jack, Colby, Colby Jack, Pepper Jack, Hot Habanero Jack, ice cream, concentrated whey, WPC 34, WPC 80, lactose.
Plants (2): Oregon: Tillamook (Cheddar cheese, ice cream, whey; ) Boardman, (Cheddar cheese, stirred curd cheese, WPC 80, lactose powder).
Eden Prairie, MN
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: David Lenzmeier, CEO
Type: Pr
Fiscal Year End: 6/24
Sales (in millions): $685.0 (2016) | $757.0 (2015)
Dairy Brands: Animal: Energy Booster 100, Energy Booster Mag, Energy Booster K, Energy Booster hP, Organi-Calf; Human: MusclePep, KwikMix, BARsoft, PRObev.
Products: Human: whey protein isolate, whey protein concentrate, milk protein concentrates, milk protein isolates, whey protein hydrolysates, lactose, permeate, sweet whey powder. Animal: Energy Booster, PEF’s (protein encapsulated fats), milk replacers, milk fortifiers, nutritional supplements.
Plants (10): California: Visalia (MPC, MPI); Illinois: Paris (Energy Booster); Nebraska: Norfolk (organic WPC 80, organic lactose, organic milk proteins); Wisconsin: Fond du Lac (WPI, WPC 80, dry whey), Adell (lactose, permeate, protein encapsulated fats/PEF), Wautoma (co-manufacturing), New Holstein (milk replacers, PEF), Boscobel (Energy Booster, PEF, milk replacers), Monroe (WPC, WPI); Minnesota: Mountain Lake (WPC 80, WPI).
Santa Ana, CA
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Louis J. Stremick,Chairman/CEO
Type: Pr
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $620.0 (2016) | $620.0 (2015)
Dairy Brands: Stremicks Heritage, 8th Continent, Kern’s Nectar & Teas. Co-pack Nesquik, Coffee-Mate.
Products: Fluid milk, juice, coffee beverages, nondairy creamers, rice/soy drinks, protein, almond, coconut beverages, soups, yogurt-based beverages, milk-based beverages.
Plants (4): California: Riverside (coffee creamers, juices, milk beverages, coffee-based beverages, aseptic; Santa Ana: (UHT milk, ice cream mix, creamers, cream, half & half, juices) Missouri: Joplin (yogurt-based beverages, milk, other beverages, coffee creamers, soups) Utah: Cedar City (rice and soy drinks, creamers, juices, almond & coconut beverages).
Chicago, IL
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Frederic Nalis, CEO; and President, Bel Americas
Type: Pu
Parent Company: Bel Group, Paris
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $603.2 (2016) | $575.2 (2015) Sales from Americas and Asia Pacific region.
Dairy Brands: The Laughing Cow, Mini Babybel, Boursin, Kaukauna, Merkts, Price’s, Wispride, Owl’s Nest.
Products: Natural and processed cheeses, cheese spreads, cold-pack cheese, dips.
Plants (3): Kentucky: Leitchfield (cheese); South Dakota: Brookings (cheese); Wisconsin: Little Chute (cold pack cheese).
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