Beyond the sales of the Dairy 100
While researching the top dairy companies in North America (page 49), we came across some interesting facts and figures about these leading organizations.
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160 tons of cheese
The amount No. 3 Saputo donated to communities where it operates in 2015.
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91%
The percentage of packaged ice cream products from No. 27 Unilever in the United States containing 250 or fewer calories per serving. 100% of all ice cream for children has 110 calories or fewer.
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$22 million a day
That how much No. 2 Dean Foods Co. sells in 24 hours. Over a year, that adds up to $8.12 billion. Looked at another way, each of the dairy’s 17,000 employees generates $1,300 per day.
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$181.1 million
Size of grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the No. 6 Land O’Lakes International Development Fund for a program to reduce poverty and increase dairy cow productivity in Tanzania and Ethiopia.
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Zero
No. 1 Nestle introduced zero-water technology at its dairy factory in Jalisco, Mexico. It reuses water vapor from the milk instead of withdrawing groundwater, saving around 1.6 million liters of water a day.