. type public traded as nyse df industry food processing founded 1925 headquarters tower at cityplace dallas texas key people gregg a. tanner ceo & chairman of the board shaun mara chief financial officer and executive vice president gregg tanner president of fresh dairy direct and chief supply chain officer products milk dairy products revenue 11.462 billion fy 2012 1 operating income 427.79 million fy 2011 1 net income 161.04 million fy 2012 1 total assets 5.687 billion fy 2012 1 total equity 357.19 million fy 2012 1 number of employees 21 915 december 2012 1 website www.deanfoods.com dean foods is an american food and beverage company that specializes in dairy products . 2 the company maintains plants and distributors in the united states and the united kingdom . 3 4 dean foods has 100 facilities located in 35 american states as well as five manufacturing plants in the countries of belgium france the united kingdom and the netherlands . 5 contents 1 history 2 controversies and legal actions 3 products 3.1 national brands 3.2 regional brands 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit dean foods was founded by samuel l. dean sr. who owned an evaporated milk processing facility in franklin park illinois in the 1920s . 6 after purchasing other illinois dairy plants dean developed the enterprise from a small regional dairy into a diversified food company . 3 dean foods headquarters in the tower at cityplace in dallas in december 2001 the legacy brand of dean foods was acquired by the dallas based suiza foods corporation who later adopted the dean foods name . 7 in 2005 dean specialty foods was spun off from dean foods as bay valley foods llc a division of treehouse foods inc. 8 in june 2005 treehouse foods started trading on the new york stock exchange with a ticker of ths . 8 in august 2006 dean foods acquired jilbert s dairy a 70 year old family business near marquette michigan . 9 dean food s tofutown brand was acquired by the hain celestial group in june 2007 . in december dean foods bought the wells dairy milk plant in le mars iowa . 10 dean foods purchased alpro in 2009 for an estimated us 455 million making it a global leader in soy beverages . 5 this resulted in a restructuring of the company that included selling off a number of subsidiaries including rachel s organic . 11 in the first quarter of 2010 the company moved to the cityplace district of dallas texas . 12 13 in october 2010 dean foods announced it was retiring the schepps brand for dairy products in the dallas texas area in favor of their oak farms brand . the schepps brand had been in the dallas market since 1942 . 13 14 in may 2015 dean foods announced that they would eliminate regional brands for its milk in favor of a single brand dairypure which was already being used as a sub brand under its previous regional marketing scheme . 15 controversies and legal actions edit in 2001 the company was sued by seven former employees who alleged the company failed to protect them from the harassment of other employees between 1993 and 2000 . the case was settled in may 2003 with a 3.3 million out of court settlement . 16 shareholders filed a lawsuit against dean foods in 2003 alleging they underpaid in their agreement to acquire horizon organic holding corp. dean foods settled with the shareholders in may 2007 . 16 in march 2005 the cornucopia institute filed a complaint with the united states department of agriculture usda alleging that their horizon organic subsidiary was violating organic livestock management standards . 17 18 on may 12 2008 the cornucopia institute filed a second complaint with the usda again alleging that deans foods had violated federal organic regulations requiring access to pasture and fresh grass for their dairy cows . 19 in 2009 the company was criticized by independent farmers who called it a monopolistic food broker . 20 in the fall the st. paul pioneer press reported that the cornucopia institute had made complaints to the u.s. department of agriculture accusing silk producer dean foods and its whitewave foods division of shifting their products away from organics without properly notifying retailers or consumers . 21 22 according to the star telegram silk brand soy milk was made using organic soybeans until early 2009 when dean foods switched to conventional soybeans while maintaining the same upc barcodes and prices on the silk products and replacing the word organic with natural on the product s packaging . 23 foremost farms usa a cooperative of over 2 000 dairy farmers in several mid western states sold its wisconsin milk processing plants to dean foods in 2009 . 24 in january 2010 the us department of justice and the state attorney generals office of wisconsin and michigan filed a lawsuit objecting to the purchase and alleged that it created a monopolizing provider . 25 dean foods announced it was contesting the complaint . 26 in 2011 a class action suit was brought against deans foods over health claims made on the packaging of horizon organic milk . 27 in 2012 dean foods contributed 253 950 to fund opposition to california s ballot proposition 37 which would require mandatory labeling of foods containing genetically modified ingredients . 28 29 products edit oak farms offices east downtown houston oak farms factory east downtown houston dean foods products include frozen and canned foods dairy products and condiments . it produces milk in the united states under a number of regional and national brands . the company licenses the land o lakes brand which markets several dairy products . 30 national brands edit dairypure fruit rush swiss premium tea trumoo regional brands edit berkeley farms logo alta dena southern california arizona barber s alabama parts of mississippi georgia and florida berkeley farms san francisco bay area california . founded 1910 broughton foods southeast ohio eastern kentucky western virginia and west virginia brown s dairy louisiana alabama mississippi and florida country fresh michigan and wisconsin creamland new mexico dean s wisconsin illinois indiana ohio and pennsylvania gandy s west texas garelick farms new england hygeia dairy south texas jilbert dairy michigan s upper peninsula land o lakes montana north dakota south dakota nebraska minnesota iowa and wisconsin lehigh valley virginia maryland delaware new jersey and pennsylvania louis trauth dairy kentucky and ohio mayfield dairy florida georgia alabama south carolina north carolina tennessee virginia kentucky mcarthur dairy south florida meadow brook pennsylvania and new york meadow gold dairy colorado hawaii idaho missouri montana nevada oregon utah washington and wyoming model dairy nevada oak farms dairy texas louisiana and oklahoma pet dairy north carolina south carolina georgia and virginia price s creameries el paso texas and southern new mexico purity dairies tennessee kentucky and alabama reiter dairy ohio swiss premium central pennsylvania t. g. lee dairy florida tuscan dairy farms new york and new jersey friendly s an ice cream brand based on the ice cream flavors at friendly s restaurants . see also edit dallas portal companies portal whitewave foods ftc v. dean foods co. 1966 decision of the us supreme court references edit a b c d e f dean foods form 10 k annual report filing date feb 27 2013 pdf . secdatabase.com . retrieved apr 12 2013 . about us . dean foods . retrieved on august 2 2009 . a b brief history . dean foods . retrieved 2013 10 20 . aditi shrivastava 8 aug 2013 . dean foods to close milk factories as earnings sour . reuters . retrieved 2 oct 2013 . a b deans foods buys alpro dallas business journal 6 july 2009 . dean foods co df.n company profile . reuters.com . retrieved 2013 10 20 . dean foods annual report pdf . library.corporate ir.net . retrieved 2013 10 20 . a b history . treehouse foods . retrieved 31 march 2014 . 1 archived december 2 2010 at the wayback machine . 2 dead link french company buys dairy company rachel s . bbc news . 2010 07 28 . retrieved 28 july 2010 . hethcock bill . dean foods to relocate corporate office . dallas business journal . monday june 8 2009 . retrieved on august 2 2009 . a b wilonsky robert october 13 2010 . so dean foods is eliminating the schepps name in dallas . well that doesn t seem right . . dallas observer . unfair park . retrieved october 14 2010 . dean foods october 12 2010 . dean foods to transition schepps brand to oak farms in dfw area . action 3 news . prnewswire . retrieved october 14 2010 . dean foods hopes for milk rebound with dairypure fortune may 4 2015 a b responsible shopper profile for dean foods coopamerica.org 2007 . staff writer march 1 2005 . the cornucopia institute has filed two formal complaints asking the usda to investigate alleged violations of the federal organic raw by factory farms operating in idaho and california with ties to dean foods owned horizon organic press release . dairy field . retrieved july 23 2014 . ivey mike march 7 2006 . can a mega dairy be organic . retrieved july 23 2014 . search results at galegroup.com dead link burnett john . independent farmers feel squeezed by milk cartel all things considered national public radio . 20 august 2009 . pioneer press search results . newsbank.com . the cornucopia institute made the complaints to the u.s. department of agriculture against target and also accuses silk soymilk producer dean foods and its broomfield colo. based whitewave foods division of quietly shifting their products away from organics . off target major retailer accused of organic improprieties state and federal complaints allege mislabeling cornucopia institute . cornucopia.org . 2009 10 20 . retrieved 2013 10 20 . http www.star telegram.com 804 story 1746193.html . retrieved april 19 2010 . missing or empty title help dead link barrett rick . dean foods acquires waukesha de pere milk processing plants . journal sentinel . april 2 2009 . retrieved on february 16 2010 . usdoj justice department files antitrust lawsuit against dean foods company . justice.gov . 2010 01 22 . retrieved 2013 10 20 . 3 archived july 23 2011 at the wayback machine . dean foods sued for horizon milk s health claims chicago tribune . articles.chicagotribune.com . 2012 . retrieved march 9 2012 . who s funding prop 37 labeling for genetically engineered foods propositions elections 2012 . kcet.org . retrieved 2013 10 20 . funding for and against proposition 37 spreadsheets los angeles times . spreadsheets.latimes.com . 2012 08 21 . retrieved 2013 10 20 . our products land o lakes . landolakes.com . retrieved 2013 10 20 . external links edit official website dean foods sec filings dean foods info at business week meadow gold history v t e dean foods alta dena arctic splash barber s belsoy berkeley farms borden broughton brown s dairy country fresh creamland dean s friendly s friendship garelick farms gandy s heartland farms jilbert s land o lakes land o sun pet lehigh valley dairy farms louis trauth mayfield mcarthur meadow brook meadow gold pog model dairy mountain high oak farms the organic cow over the moon price s provamel purity reiter robinson dairy stroh s ice cream swiss tea t.g. lee trumoo tuscan dairy farms retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title dean foods & oldid 742806940 categories companies listed on the new york stock exchangedairy products companies of the united statesmultinational food companiesmanufacturing companies based in dallas texasdean foods brandsfranklin park illinoishidden categories articles with wayback machine linksall articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from january 2014articles with dead external links from may 2016pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urlsofficial website different in wikidata and