industry packaged food founded denver colorado 1977 headquarters denver colorado us area served north america and europe number of employees 3 800 subsidiaries horizon organic silk brand soy milk earthbound farm wallaby organic yogurt international delight land o lakes alpro provamel so delicious website whitewave.com the whitewave foods company nyse wwav is an american consumer packaged food and beverage company that manufactures markets distributes and sells branded plant based foods and beverages coffee creamers and beverages premium dairy products and organic produce throughout north america and europe . whitewave are the subject of a takeover by danone . history edit the company was formerly a subsidiary of dean foods and was spun off in an ipo announced in august 2012 . 1 whitewave acquired earthbound farms america s largest grower of organic produce on jan. 2 2014 for approximately 600 million . 2 in september 2014 whitewave announced they were taking over vegan dessert and beverage company so delicious . 3 4 5 whitewave announced in 31 october 2014 the so delicious take over was complete . 6 on july 7 2016 french food and beverage manufacturer danone announced a 12.5 billion deal to acquire whitewave . 7 on 15 august whitewave announced a meeting has been scheduled for 4 october for stockholders to vote on the danone takeover . the whitewave board unanimously recommend the takeover bid is accepted . 8 brands edit the company s brands distributed in north america include horizon organic premium dairy and pantry products silk plant based foods and beverages earthbound farm organic produce and international delight and land o lakes coffee creamers and beverages . whitewave s european brands of plant based foods and beverages include alpro and provamel . 1 references edit a b whitewave foods company . new york times . retrieved 9 september 2014 . the whitewave foods company completes acquisition of earthbound farm . yahoo finance . january 3 2014 . retrieved 9 september 2014 . http vegnews.com articles page.do pageid 6558 & catid 1 http latestvegannews.com whitewave foods owner of silk and so delicious buys vega http www.whitewave.com who http www.bevnet.com news 2014 whitewave foods company completes acquisition of so delicious dairy free http www.nytimes.com 2016 07 08 business dealbook danone whitewave deal.html r 0 http www.whitewave.com wp content uploads 2016 03 special st h mtg press release 8.15.2016.pdf this food related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title whitewave foods & oldid 741261720 categories food and drink companies of the united states1977 establishments in coloradofood and drink companies established in 1977companies listed on the new york stock exchangefood stubshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 26 september 2016 at 11 31 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view