At only a decade and a half old, Chobani LLC is still a youngster within the dairy processing universe. Nevertheless, the company — founded in 2005 by current CEO Hamdi Ulukaya, who immigrated to the United States from Turkey about a decade earlier — has racked up a remarkable number of accomplishments.
Moreover, Chobani added considerably to those achievements during the last year or so. The company invested heavily in product innovation, stepped up its commitment to philanthropy, unveiled new efforts to support dairy producers, and continued to demonstrate its mission to “put people before profits.” For these reasons and others, Norwich, N.Y.-based Chobani is Dairy Foods’ 2020 Processor of the Year.