Dean Foods Company is a dairy manufacturer which distributes milk and other dairy products to all parts of the USA. It is also the leading supplier of milk beverages in Europe.
History
Dean Foods Company was founded in 1925 by Samuel E. Dean, Sr. in Illinois. He bought the Pecatonica Marketing Company, an evaporated milk processing company, and renamed it Dean Evaporated Milk Company in 1928. After that, the company grew by acquiring other dairy companies in Illinois.
In 1929, the company became Dean Milk Company. It went public in 1961 with 1,800 shareholders. In 1963, it was renamed as Dean Foods Company. Also, it moved its headquarters to Franklin Park, Illinois. Over the next few decades, the company expanded its business to most parts of America. In the 1980s, it was known as DF on the New York Stock Exchange.
In 2001, the company was acquired by Suiza Food Corporation, the leading dairy processing company at the time. Suiza Food Corporation became a leader by acquisition of many dairy companies over the years. After the acquisition, Suiza was renamed Dean Foods Company, and its symbol on the New York Stock Exchange was changed to DF. The headquarters of the company was in Dallas.
In 2002, the company bought White Wave, Inc. in Boulder, Colorado. At the time, it was famous for its Silk brand of soy milk. In 2004, the company bought another manufacturer of organic milk and milk products, Horizon Organic Holding Corporation. It also formed a division named White Wave Foods and started the production of Silk and organic milk products under that name. In 2005, the name of Dean Specialty Foods was changed to TreeHouse Foods, and this company manufactured dressings, pickles and dips. In 2009, Dean Foods Company bought Alpro, which was a leading soy based milk products manufacturer in Europe.
Stats
Company headquarters: McKinney Avenue, Suite 1200, Dallas, TX, USA.
Ownership: Public
Annual Revenue: $1.8 Billion
No of Employees: 25,780
Geography: USA and Europe
Demography: Young, Natural and Organic
Divisions
Fresh Dairy Direct – Morningstar
White Wave – Alpro
Brands
Alta Dena, Barber’s, Barbe’s, Broughton Foods, Berkeley Farms, Brown’s Dairy, Creamland, Dean’s, Country Fresh, Dairy Ease, Friendship Dairies, Horizon Organic, Gandy’s, International Delight, Garelick Farms, LAND O LAKES, Louis Trauth, McArthur Dairy, Lehigh Valley Dairy Farms, Mayfield Dairy, Meadow Brook Dairy, Meadow Gold, Hawaii, Meadow Gold, Organic Cow, Oak farms Dairy, Over the Moon, PET Dairy, Purity dairies, Price’s Creameries, Reiter Dairy, Skinny Cow Milk, Robinson Dairy, Silk Soy Milk, Schepps Dairy, Tuscan Dairy, Swiss Tea, T.G. Dairy, Hygeia, Borden, Jilbert
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