A36-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 3, 2000
Dean Foods And Land O
Fluid Dairy Sale And
FRANKLIN PARK, 11.
Dean Foods Company and Land
O’Lakes, Inc. announced today
that Dean Foods will purchase
Land O’Lakes Upper Midwest
fluid milk'operations.
The two organizations also
announced their agreement to
form a joint venture to market
and license certain value-added
fluid and cultured dairy prod
ucts to further expand and le
verage the LAND O LAKES
brand name nationwide.
Both agreements will include
long-term licensing arrange
ments for use of the LAND O
LAKES brand name. It is antici
pated that the transactions will
close, subject to regulatory
review, on or about July 1,2000.
Terms of the transactions were
not disclosed.
Land O’Lakes, a producer
owned cooperative based in
Arden Hills, Minnesota, is one of
the nation’s premier food and
agricultural companies. Dean
Foods, headquartered in Frank
lin Park, Illinois, is one of the
nation’s leading processors and
distributors of regionally
branded and private-label dairy
products.
The asset purchase encom
passes all the operating assets of
Land O’Lakes Fluid Dairy Divi
sion, including four fluid dairy
plants located in Woodbury
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(Twin Cities area) and Thief
River Falls, Minn., Bismarck,
N.D. and Sioux Falls, S.D., as
well as a new extended-shelf-life
(ESL) dairy and cultured plant
located in Richland Center, Wis.
The acquired dairy division
generates annual sales of ap
proximately $3lO million and
markets a hill line of fluid milk,
yogurt, creams, sour cream and
cottage cheese, 85% of which is
sold under the LAND O LAKES
brand name. Land O’Lakes will
be the long-term agent for sup
plying the raw milk require
ments of the plants being
acquired by Dean Foods.
Under the separate joint ven
ture agreement, Land O’Lakes
and Dean Foods will each hold a
SO percent interest in an inde
pendent entity having the U.S.
rights to develop, market and li
cense LAND O LAKES brand
cream, half and half, sour cream
and extended-shelf-life prod
ucts, including the successful
GRIP’N GO 1 " single-serve milk.
The joint venture will bring to
market innovative, functional
food dairy products in conven
ient packaging designed for the
“on-the-go” lifestyles of today’s
consumers.
“The LAND O LAKES brand
name and reputation for high
quality products has created this
opportunity,” said Chris Poli-
New Cluster Free Stalls
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’Lakes Announce
Joint Venture
cinski. Land O’Lakes executive
vice president and chief opera
ting officer of the Dairy Foods
value-added group. “The joint
venture allows us to extend the
reach of our most innovative
fluid dairy products, and we will
use the proceeds from the sale to
build and strengthen our core
businesses on behalf of our
members.”
“The acquisition of the Land
O’Lakes fluid dairy operations is
another key step in Dean’s long
term strategy of integrating
strong regional dairies into a
cost-efficient national dairy
company, better able to serve the
consolidating retail sector and
the individual consumer,” said
Howard Dean, chairman and
chief executive officer of Dean
Foods.
“In terms of geography, strat
egy, operations, R & D capabili
ties and organizational culture,
it is hard to imagine a better fit
between the two parties. Addi
tionally, the joint venture will
allow Dean and Land O’Lakes
to work together closely to con
tinue developing and marketing
new, value-added dairy prod
ucts under the highly respected
LAND GLARES brand.”
No significant changes are an
ticipated in plant operations,
employment or the positioning
of the LAND O LAKES brand
name.
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