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.
Greenwood, WI
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Trevor Wuethrich, president
Type: Pr
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $1,677.0* (2017) | $1,744.0* (2016)
Dairy Brands: Alcam, Brethren Butter, Grassland, Mountain View, Nutrose, NutraPro, NutraPro-MPI, NutriPro-85, Wüthrich, Mountain View.
Products: Butter (European-style, grass-fed), butter oil, butter blends, anhydrous milkfat, buttermilk powder, nonfat dry milk, milk permeate, milk protein concentrate (56, 70, 85), milk protein isolate (90), condensed skim milk, ultrafiltered milk.
Plants: 6. Nebraska: West Point (butter, cream, condensed sweet buttermilk, buttermilk powder, condensed skim milk, nonfat dry milk); Utah: Hyrum (butter, cream, condensed sweet buttermilk, buttermilk powder, condensed skim milk); Wisconsin: Greenwood (2) (1-butter, butter oil, anhydrous milk fat, butter blends, condensed skim milk, nonfat dry milk, condensed sweet buttermilk, buttermilk powder, cream; 2-milk, ultrafiltered milk, milk protein concentrate, whey, WPC, barrel cheeses, milk protein isolate, milk permeate), Richland Center (butter), Zachow (butter, cream, condensed buttermilk, buttermilk powder).
Baraboo, WI
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Michael Doyle, president and CEO
Type: C
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $1,600.0* (2017) | $1,500.0 (2016) 1500
Dairy Brands: Daritek, Foremost Farms USA, Fratellino, Nutritek, Teklac, 1950-127 Brand.
Products: Cheese (mozzarella, provolone, cheddar), butter, bulk fluid milk, whey products.
Plants: 11. Minnesota: Preston (specialty WPC, condensed skim milk, nonfat dry milk); Wisconsin: Appleton (low-moisture/part-skim mozzarella, low-moisture/whole-milk mozzarella, reduced-fat mozzarella, provolone, smoked provolone, WPC, dry permeate), Chilton (low-moisture/part-skim 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 (low-moisture/part-skim mozzarella, low-moisture/whole-milk 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 (low-moisture/part-skim mozzarella, low-moisture/whole-milk mozzarella, condensed whey, WPC, whole whey powder, permeate), 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): $1,530.0* (2017) | $1,500.0* (2016)
Dairy Brands: Chobani, Gippsland Dairy.
Products: Greek yogurt, traditional yogurt, drinkable yogurt, yogurt snacks.
Plants: 3. New York: South Edmeston; Idaho: Twin Falls; Australia: Dandenong South.
Plymouth, WI
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Louie Gentine, CEO
Type: Pr
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $1,400.0 (2017) | $1,300.0 (2016)
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 (individually quick-frozen battered/breaded appetizers, sliced natural cheeses, shredded natural cheeses, cheese dip snacks), Hilbert (refrigerated and shelf-stable sauces, processed cheeses, chunk cheeses, snacks).
San Antonio, TX
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Ken Jorgensen, director of dairy operations
Type: Pr
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $1,250.0* (2017) | $1,150.0* (2016)
Dairy Brands: Central Market, H-E-B, H-E-Buddy, Hill Country Fare.
Products: Milk, eggnog, ice cream, novelties, yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream.
Plants: 3. Texas: Houston (milk, drinks, water), San Antonio (2) (both milk, beverages, cultured products, ice cream, novelties, frozen desserts).
Dallas, TX
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Tony Sarsam, CEO
Type: Pr
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $1,223.4 (2017) | $1,180.8 (2016) 2016 number was corrected from Dairy Foods' original estimate.
Dairy Brands: Borden.
Products: Milk, cream, creamers, eggnog, cultured milk, buttermilk, frozen dessert mixes, juices, drinks/beverages, ice tea.
Plants: 13. Alabama: Cowarts (milk, eggnog, buttermilk, ice tea, drinks/beverages, juice), Georgia: Decatur (frozen dessert mixes); Florida: Miami (milk, cream, eggnog, buttermilk, creamers, ice tea, drinks/beverages, juice), Winter Haven (milk, cream, eggnog, buttermilk, creamers, ice tea, juice, drinks/beverages); Kentucky: London (milk, cream, eggnog, buttermilk, frozen dessert mixes, drinks/beverages, ice tea, creamers), Louisiana: Lafayette (milk, cream, eggnog, buttermilk, drinks/beverages, creamers, frozen dessert mixes); Mississippi: Hattiesburg (milk, buttermilk); Ohio: Cleveland (milk, eggnog, buttermilk, frozen dessert mixes, drinks/beverages, juice), Cincinnati (milk, eggnog, buttermilk, ice tea, drinks/beverages, frozen dessert mixes); South Carolina: Charleston (milk, cream, eggnog, buttermilk, drinks/beverages, creamers, ice tea, juice, frozen dessert mixes); Texas: Austin (milk, cream, eggnog, buttermilk, creamers, drinks/beverages, frozen dessert mixes), Conroe (milk, eggnog, buttermilk, ice tea, frozen dessert mixes, creamers, juice), Dallas (milk, eggnog, buttermilk, ice tea, frozen dessert mixes, creamers, juice).
Boise, ID
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Evan Rainwater, senior vice president, manufacturing
Type: Pr
Parent Company: Albertsons LLC, Boise, ID
Fiscal Year End: 2/24
Sales (in millions): $1,175.0* (2017) | $1,177.0* (2016) Estimated revenues of dairy operations only. Latest fiscal year ended in 2018. Annual Report
Dairy Brands: Lucerne, Signature Reserve, Signature Select, Open Nature, O Organics, Refreshe, Value Corner.
Products: Milk, organic milk and cream, eggnog, cultured dairy products, plant-based fluid products, water, juice, ice cream, nondairy ice cream, organic ice cream, water ice novelties.
Plants: 9. Arizona: Tempe (milk, juice/drinks), Phoenix (ice cream, novelties, frozen dessert mixes); California: City of Commerce/Los Angeles (milk, cultured products, cultured drinks, juice/drinks), San Leandro (milk, juice/drinks, ultrapasteurized fluid products); Colorado: Denver (milk, cultured products, juice/drinks); Oregon: Clackamas (milk, cultured products, juice/drinks); Pennsylvania: Hatfield (milk, juice/drinks); Washington: Bellevue (2) (1-milk, water, cultured products; 2-ice cream, novelties).
Plymouth, WI
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Jeff Gentine, co-owner, president, CEO
Type: Pr
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $1,100.0 (2017) | $1,000.0 (2016)
Dairy Brands: Wisconsin Premium.
Products: Cheese (in retail, foodservice, industrial formats), cheese-related items.
Plants: 2. Wisconsin: Plymouth, Oostburg (cheese: shreds, bars, chunks, natural slices, snack sticks, dices, cubes, prints, loaves, bulk/industrial cheese - 30- to 640-lb. blocks).
La Farge, WI
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: George Siemon, CEO
Type: C
Parent Company: CROPP Cooperative, Westby, WI
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $1,100.0 (2017) | $705.1 (2016) Sales include some organic non-dairy products such as meat and eggs.
Dairy Brands: Organic Valley.
Products: Milk, cream, half & half, cheese, sour cream, cottage cheese, soy beverages, protein shakes, protein powder.
Plants: 4. Oregon: McMinnville (organic butter, dried milk powder); Wisconsin: Chaseburg (organic butters, ghee, skim reload), LaFarge (organic cheese conversion to retail), Cashton (organic ghee, packaging of organic butter products).
Le Mars, IA
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Michael C. Wells, president and CEO
Type: Pr
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $1,040.0 (2017) | $1,028.0 (2016)
Dairy Brands: Blue Bunny, Blue Ribbon Classics, Bomb Pop, Chilly Cow, Weight Watchers frozen novelties (licensed).
Products: Ice cream, novelties, frozen yogurt, sherbet, sorbet.
Plants: 2. Iowa: Le Mars (2) (packaged ice cream, frozen novelties, frozen yogurt, frozen desserts).
Belleview, Florida
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Jim Sleper, CEO
Type: C
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $1,000.0* (2017) | $1,000.0* (2016)
Dairy Brands: Gustafson Farm.
Products: Milk, ultrapasteurized milk, coffee creams, concentrated milk.
Plants: 1. Georgia: Baconton (creams, milk, concentrated milk).
Andover, MA
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Ed Townley, CEO
Type: C
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $990.0 (2017) | $912.0 (2016)
Dairy Brands: Agri-Mark, Cabot, McCadam.
Products: Cottage cheese, sour cream, Greek yogurt, butter, cheese (cheddar, Muenster), ingredients, whey proteins.
Plants: 4. Massachusetts: West Springfield (butter, cream, condensed products, nonfat dry milk); New York: Chateaugay (cheddar, Muenster, specialty cheese); Vermont: Cabot (cheddar, cultured), Middlebury (cheddar, whey protein).
Fitchburg, WI
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Matthias Kunz, executive vice president, Americas
Type: Pu
Parent Company: Emmi Group, Lucerne, Switzerland
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $927.7 (2017) | $835.7 (2016) Sales for the Americas division converted from Swiss francs using the 2017 average currency exchange rate published by IRS. 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, 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).
Minneapolis, MN
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Pankaj Sharma, president, U.S. Yogurt
Type: Pu
Fiscal Year End: 5/27
Sales (in millions): $927.4 (2017) | $1,064.3 (2016) Annual Report
Dairy Brands: Annie's, Liberte, Mountain High, Oui by Yoplait, 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), YQ by Yoplait.
Products: Yogurt, Greek yogurt.
Plants: 3. California: Carson; Michigan: Reed City; Tennessee: Murfreesboro.
Novi, MI
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Joe Diglio, general manager
Type: C
Fiscal Year End: 9/30
Sales (in millions): $864.9 (2017) | $804.6 (2016) 2016 revenue reflects a correction from last year's print report.
Dairy Brands: Heritage Ridge Creamery, MMPA.
Products: Cream, condensed milk products, milk powders, butter, ingredients.
Plants: 3. Indiana: Middlebury (cheese); Michigan: Ovid (cream, condensed milk products, milk powders, whole milk powder, butter), Constantine (cream, condensed milk products, milk powders, butter, reverse osmosis processing).
Tempe, AZ
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Keith Murfield, CEO
Type: C
Fiscal Year End: 9/1
Sales (in millions): $831.7 (2017) | $753.3 (2016)
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).
Chicago, IL
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Frédéric Nalis, president and CEO, USA
Type: Pu
Parent Company: Bel Group, Paris, France
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $812.6 (2017) | $603.2 (2016) Sales from Americas and Asia Pacific region. Euros converted to U.S. dollars using 2017 average exchange rate from IRS. Annual Report
Dairy Brands: Boursin, Kaukauna, The Laughing Cow, Mini Babybel, Merkts, Owl's Nest, Price’s, Wispride.
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).
Buffalo, NY
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Lawrence C. Webster, CEO
Type: C
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $805.0* (2017) | $789.4 (2016)
Dairy Brands: Bison, Intense Milk, O-AT-KA, Upstate Farms, Valley Farms.
Products: Milk, ice cream mix, yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream, dips, evaporated milk, powders, butter, condensed, liquid milk protein concentrate.
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).
Eden Prairie, MN
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: David Lenzmeier, CEO
Type: Pr
Fiscal Year End: 6/29
Sales (in millions): $802.6 (2017) | $685.0 (2016)
Dairy Brands: Animal: Energy Booster 100, Energy Booster Mag, Energy Booster K, Energy Booster hP, Organi-Calf; Human: BARsoft, KwikMix, MusclePep, PRObev.
Products: Human: WPI, WPC, milk protein concentrates, milk protein isolates, whey protein hydrolysates, lactose, permeate, sweet whey powder. Animal: Energy Booster, protein encapsulated fats, milk replacers, milk fortifiers, nutritional supplements.
Plants: 10. California: Visalia (milk protein concentrate, milk protein isolate); 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), Wautoma (co-manufacturing), New Holstein (milk replacers, protein encapsulated fats), Boscobel (Energy Booster, protein encapsulated fats, milk replacers), Monroe (WPC, WPI); Minnesota: Mountain Lake (WPC 80, WPI).
Austin, MN
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Luis Marconi, group vice president, grocery products
Type: Pu
Fiscal Year End: 10/28
Sales (in millions): $794.5 (2017) | $939.1 (2016) Revenues are for Hormel's entire Specialty Foods segment only. Annual Report
Dairy Brands: Di Lusso Deli, Herdez, Hormel Vital Cuisine, Muscle Milk.
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, dips/salsas.
Plants: 6. Specialty Foods division processing plants: Georgia: Tucker; Illinois: Aurora, Rochelle; Pennsylvania: Quakertown; Wisconsin: Beloit, Sparta (cheese, whey products, dry dairy ingredients, ready-to-drink and powder drinks).
New Holland, PA
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Dominique Huth, president and CEO
Type: Pu
Parent Company: Savencia Fromage & Dairy, Viroflay, France
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $789.0* (2017) | $1,410.0* (2016) Estimated revenues include Advanced Food Products and Savencia Cheese USA; 2016 estimate reflected all of Savencia's non-European operations, including those outside the United States. Annual Report
Dairy Brands: Alouette, Chavrie, Dorothy's, Esquirrou, Ile de France, Smithsfield, St Agur, St Andre.
Products: Cheese, cream cheese, cheese sauce, dips, spread, puddings, dairy beverages.
Plants: 7. California: City of Industry (cheese), Visalia (cheese sauce, dips, puddings, spreads, dairy beverages), Los Angeles (cream cheese); Illinois: Lena (cheese); Pennsylvania: New Holland (cream cheese); New Jersey: Fairfield (specialty cheeses); Wisconsin: Clearlake (cheese sauce, dips, puddings, spreads, dairy beverages).
Columbus, OH
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: David A. Ciesinski, CEO of parent co.
Type: Pu
Parent Company: Lancaster Colony Corp., Westerville, OH
Fiscal Year End: 6/30
Sales (in millions): $765.0 (2017) | 750.0 * (2016) Total retail net sales for calendar year, including nondairy food items. Annual Report
Dairy Brands: Cardini's, Girard's, Marzetti, T. Marzetti, Simply Dressed.
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).
Chicago, IL
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Mike Saint John, CEO
Type: Pr
Parent Company: Select Milk Producers, The Coca-Cola Co.
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $740.0* (2017) | $350.0* (2016) 2017 revenue number is an estimate by fairlife.
Dairy Brands: Core Power, fairlife DHA, fairlife Smart Snacks, fairlife Ultra-Filtered, fairlife Yup!
Products: High-protein milk, flavored milk.
Plants: 4. Indiana: Fair Oaks; Michigan: Coopersville; New Mexico: Dexter; Texas: Waco.
Tillamook, OR
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Patrick Criteser, president and CEO
Type: C
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $722.0* (2017) | $688.0* (2016)
Dairy Brands: Tillamook, Bandon.
Products: Cheddar cheese varieties, Monterey Jack, colby, colby jack, pepper jack, hot habanero jack, ice cream, sour cream, butter, 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).
Dallas, TX
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: David Sokolsky, CEO
Type: Pr
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $703.1 (2017) | $588.7 (2016)
Dairy Brands: Daisy Brand.
Products: Sour cream, cottage cheese.
Plants: 3. Arizona: Casa Grande (sour cream; Ohio: Wooster (sour cream, cottage cheese); Texas: Garland (sour cream, cottage cheese).
Santa Ana, CA
DAIRY EXECUTIVE: Louis J. Stremick, president and CEO
Type: Pr
Fiscal Year End: 12/31
Sales (in millions): $620.0* (2017) | $620.0* (2016)
Dairy Brands: Kern’s, Rice Dream, Soy Dream, Stremicks Heritage Foods, 8th Continent.
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); Utah: Cedar City (rice and soy drinks, creamers, juices, almond and coconut beverages).
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