On both an industry-wide, and company level it's a new day for dairy. Companies are ushering in new generations of leadership and the industry is being shaped by a new era of consolidated players.
This year's Dairy 100™ finds the industry in a unique position: It's been nearly three years since the Dean-Suiza merger capped off the consolidation race of the 90s. Subsequent events lead to the emergence of National Dairy Holdings, another national player. Now HP Hood has finally acquired the Crowley and Kemps properties it has long desired, and while NDH has downsized a bit, both companies can legitimately be called national players, albeit of a smaller variety the one run by Gregg Engles.