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Crystal Creamery, officially California’s oldest dairy processor, said it is celebrating 120 years of business by always starting with one thing: the freshest dairy sourced from local, family-owned farms.
Originally known as Crystal Cream & Butter Co., the Modesto, Calif.-based company got its start when George and Caroline Knox began churning butter in the back of a small Sacramento grocery store in 1901. Twenty years later, Crystal Creamery was purchased by Danish immigrant Carl Hansen, and that was the beginning of the expansion of family of products to include milk, cottage cheese, sour cream and ice cream, the company said. In 2007, Crystal Creamery remained a family-owned business when Foster Dairy Farms purchased the company.