Nearly a year after the loss of its founder, Lifeway Foods continues to grow
Last November Julie Smolyansky, went to Pack Expo in Chicago looking for shrink sleeve equipment, and she found something more. Her company, Lifeway Foods Inc., Morton Grove, Ill., eventually purchased a system to add full-body shrink sleeve labels to its line of Kefir probiotic dairy and soy drinks.
In the process, Smolyansky quieted some doubts she had about fostering the company her father built. See, last June she became CEO and president of Lifeway, and her brother Edward became its financial director, when their father died of a heart attack. There was no warning.