Locations FAQs Careers SERVICES DAIRY DELI FOODSERVICE ADAMS RESERVE AWARDS CONTACT HOME It was 1958 when Hans Epprecht, a Swiss immigrant, began his business as a small company that delivered bulk cheeses to neighborhood stores in Cleveland, Ohio, on the southern shore of Lake Erie. Before long, retailers began asking for pre-cut cheeses wrapped in smaller sizes and more cheese varieties to better satisfy their customers…and the Great Lakes Cheese tradition was born. Since then, Great Lakes has grown rapidly by acquisition, plant expansions, investment in the best technologies for production and distribution – and by setting industry standards in high service levels. Currently, Great Lakes serves the nation’s retailers and food service operations with seven strategic facilities across the U.S. It is a proud tradition of award-winning quality and the customer satisfaction we earn every day.

n 2008, Danone recorded an organic growth rate of 8.4% — practical proof that its business growth model truly works. With its operating margin increasing for the 14th year running, the group further strengthened its global standing: world no. 1 in fresh dairy products, world no. 2 in bottled waters, world no. 2 in baby nutrition and European no. 1 in medical nutrition. The group’s performance is the result of a balanced strategy that builds on international expansion, a growing commitment to innovation, and strengthening health-oriented brands. In order to live up to its ambitions, Danone invests heavily in Research & Development — €208 million in 2008. One hundred percent of projects currently in the pipeline focus on health and nutrition. Three centuries after the benefits of Evian mineral water were discovered, over a century after Blédine was first marketed, and nearly a century after the first Danone yoghurt was retailed in a pharmacy, health innovation remains more than ever a driver of the group’s business growth. 2008 confirmed that the previous year’s acquisition of the Dutch group Numico was strategically sound. With this move, Danone incorporated into its strategy two profitable, fast-growing health-oriented business lines: medical nutrition and baby nutrition. They naturally round off the group’s brand portfolio and are perfectly aligned with its mission to bring health through food to as many people as possible. Today Danone is the only food group to focus totally on health.

As France's largest dairy producer, Lactalis sells milk, cheese, butter, and cream. Its flagship brand is Pr�sident; its other top brands include Bridel, Locatelli, Soci�t�, Sorrento, and Valmont. Distributing its foods in some 150 countries worldwide, Lactalis owns and operates about 127 industrial sites. While the company is France's largest dairy exporter, about 60% of its sales are domestic. Lactalis was founded in 1933 by Andr� Besnier; his descendants still own and oversee the company.

Sodiaal is France's largest dairy cooperative. It produces fluid milk, cheese, and industrial dairy products, and licenses and distributes the #1 worldwide yogurt brand, Yoplait, in Europe. (Yoplait is jointly owned by Sodiaal and PAI Partners, each of which owns 50% of it.) Sodiaal's key subsidiary, Candia, produces such brands as GrandLait and Babylait (milk), Biolait (organic milk), Viva (milk made with proteins and magnesium), Silhouette (skim milk), and Babette (cream). Sodiaal's Fromageries Riches Monts operation manufactures soft cheeses, including such brands as Riches Monts, Le Rustique, and Coeur de Lion. The company is in merger talks with another French dairy, Entremont.

The largest dairy producer in Mexico is now the second largest in the US after it bought National Dairy Holdings and Farmland Dairies in 2009. Lala makes milk (pasteurized and ultra high temperature), cheese, yogurt, cream, butter, juice, and packaged desserts such as gelatin and flan under about a dozen brands in Mexico. In the US, operating as Lala Foods Inc., it offers milk, cheese, sour cream, and yogurt under the Lala and Vive brands, as well as a kids' line called Yomi. Lala operates more than 35 manufacturing plants and 160 distribution centers in Mexico, Central America, and the US. It was founded in 1949 as a dairy collective in Mexico.

Grupo Leche Pascual's principal activity is the packaging and preparation of milk, yogurt pasteurized after fermentation, juices, soft drinks, breakfast cereals, eggs and tortillas UHT liquid, mineral water, soya drinks, functional foods and other derivatives top quality milk and marketing of all of them. The marks by which the Group's products sold are: Pascual, Yosport, Zumosol, ViveSoy, Works, MásVital, Bezoya, Pascual and Essential Nature. On the other hand, the result of the expansion and continued growth of the Company, Grupo Leche Pascual has diversified its activities introduced in other economic sectors.

Guida's Milk & Ice Cream is one of the largest independent dairies in New England. Since 1886 Guida's has had the reputation of supplying the finest products and service to our large customer base. With a fleet of over 200 vehicles, Guida's Milk & Ice Cream delivers fresh dairy and dairy related products throughout Southern New England. Our service area includes Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, northern New Jersey and New York State including Long Island. Emphasis on quality control cannot be overstated. With a 18-day code on all of our fluid milk products, Guida's can guarantee the utmost integrity of its product line. Guida's also processes a full line of ice cream mixes, fruit juices, fruit drinks and water to meet all of our customers' needs.

Guida's Milk & Ice Cream is one of the largest independent dairies in New England. Since 1886 Guida's has had the reputation of supplying the finest products and service to our large customer base. With a fleet of over 200 vehicles, Guida's Milk & Ice Cream delivers fresh dairy and dairy related products throughout Southern New England. Our service area includes Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, northern New Jersey and New York State including Long Island. Emphasis on quality control cannot be overstated. With a 18-day code on all of our fluid milk products, Guida's can guarantee the utmost integrity of its product line. Guida's also processes a full line of ice cream mixes, fruit juices, fruit drinks and water to meet all of our customers' needs.

Founded in 1947 by Stuart Hanan, a research chemist, Hanan Products Company Inc. has developed into a leading manufacturer of a broad line of whipped toppings used for baking and food service. With an overwhelming interest in quality, and a very active research and development staff, we have created products for every aspect of the industry. These products include; kosher dairy and parve, ready to use and concentrates, along with whippable and pre-whipped icings and fillings. With our newly expanded facility in Hicksville, New York, we are proud of our ability to develop and manufacture products that have attained the highest level of acceptance both domestically and throughout many international markets, including Europe, Asia, and South America. Our frozen storage capacity allows us to meet the most demanding requirements of all of our customers. In addition, our manufacturing approach remains agile and responsive.

Hickman's Family Farms has been family-owned and operated in Arizona since 1944. In its early days, Hickman's entered the Arizona food service market by providing fresh, locally produced eggs direct to small independent restaurants, and directly to consumers. Every afternoon, one little refrigerated panel truck was sufficient to deliver the day's production to coffee shops in Glendale and to Carnation Restaurant in the big city of Phoenix. Bill and Gertie Hickman displayed the entrepreneurial insight that has kept Hickman's competitive for decades. By 1993, Hickman's was left standing as the only Arizona egg producer with chickens and a USDA-inspected processing plant. Despite the challenges of the egg industry, the Glendale operation continued to expand. In the late 1990s a new operation opened in Buckeye with laying houses that are each called home by 130,000 hens.

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