Consumers want local, fresh and minimally processed foods. A dairy farmer in rural Maryland said, ‘I can do that,’ and built a plant to process milk and ice cream. Meet the owners of Kilby Cream.
Maryland's Kilby family has been farming for 100 years. To position itself for success into the next century, it built a dairy processing plant that bottles milk and churns ice cream under the name Kilby Cream.
Crystal Creamery of Modesto, Calif., is the No. 1 milk brand in Sacramento. It aims to make its Humboldt brand a national player in organic ice cream. For CEO Frank Otis, managing two brands can be ‘tricky.’
Modesto-based Foster Farms Dairy, founded in 1941, knows a thing or two about names and brands. In 2007, it acquired Crystal Creamery of Sacramento, which traces its roots to 1901. Two years later, Foster acquired Fortuna-based Humboldt Creamery, which dates to the 1920s.
Snowville Creamery founder Warren Taylor once designed large-scale dairies. He drew upon those experiences when it came time to design his own 6,000-square-foot headquarters and plant.
That’s the gospel according to Snowville Creamery founder Warren Taylor, a self-described ‘dairy evangelist’ and ‘dairy revolutionary.’ Meet the most outspoken dairy processor in America today.
Good is not good enough at fairlife, where the company motto is ‘believe in better.’ The 2015 Processor of the Year is making value-added dairy beverages, including high-protein milk, post-workout recovery milkshakes and low-sugar chocolate milk.
A regional dairy with national backing – that’s Mayfield Dairy Farms, a unit of dairy powerhouse Dean Foods Co. Mayfield extends its reach with ice cream retailers, while its fluid milk products satisfy consumers and foodservice customers.
A company executive said the new plant will help the company develop new products. She calls dairy an “under-innovated” category and adds, “We think there’s a lot of future for dairy innovation.”
On a tour of Europe, Kroger’s dairy experts saw technologies and processing techniques not found in a typical American. Best practices at Mountain View Foods in Denver preserve milk’s freshness and help Kroger develop innovative dairy-based products.
BGC operates four plants in Tyler, manufacturing milk, cultured dairy, ice cream and nondairy beverages.
October 14, 2013
Brookshire Grocery Co., Tyler, Texas, is supporting National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October by adding a pink ribbon to the caps of all Brookshire’s brand gallon milk jugs sold in the chain’s 152 stores across Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas.