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Business Upturn
30-06-2025
- Business
- Business Upturn
Successful completion of Lactalis USA Acquisition of General Mills U.S. Yogurt Business
CHICAGO, June 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lactalis USA, the U.S. affiliate of Lactalis, the world's largest dairy company, has completed today the previously announced acquisition of General Mills' U.S. yogurt business. With this acquisition, Lactalis USA acquires the Yoplait® Go-Gurt®, Oui®, Mountain High® and :ratio® businesses in the U.S. The acquired business represents approximately $1.2 billion in annual net sales. The acquisition includes approximately 1,000 employees and two manufacturing facilities in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and Reed City, Mich. The acquired business will operate as Midwest Yogurt, a newly formed division of Lactalis USA based in Minneapolis, Minn. Lactalis plans to invest significant resources in Midwest Yogurt employees, brands and manufacturing facilities to support the future growth of this new division. 'This acquisition advances our U.S. growth strategy and strengthens our position as an emerging leader in the U.S. yogurt market. Incorporating the popular Yoplait brand into our house of U.S. dairy product brands will create important, new opportunities for growth and product innovation, as well as positive impacts for our customers, communities and employees,' said Lactalis USA CEO Esteve Torrens. 'At our core, Lactalis is a family company dedicated to providing delicious, affordable dairy products and investing in our people and in our business. Today, we are excited to welcome 1,000 new colleagues into the Lactalis USA family to add another chapter to the Lactalis USA story that began over 40 years ago.' 'The Yoplait team looks forward to an exciting future as part of Lactalis USA. By leveraging Lactalis' expertise and dairy know-how we will grow our portfolio of brands that consumers love and trust,' said Lactalis Midwest Yogurt CEO, Kerry DeLaney, Lactalis USA's yogurt business now comprises two divisions, Lactalis U.S. Yogurt and Midwest Yogurt. Both divisions manufacture and market a portfolio of well-known brands. Lactalis U.S. Yogurt's product portfolio ranges from organic and high protein yogurts, to yogurt for children and indulgent desserts that includes the brands Stonyfield Organic®, siggi's®, Brown Cow and Green Mountain Creamery®. About Lactalis USA Lactalis USA is committed to enriching lives by producing nutritious and great-tasting dairy products. The company offers an unrivaled house of beloved dairy brands in the United States including Galbani® Italian cheeses, Président® specialty cheeses and gourmet butters, Kraft® brands in natural and grated cheeses, Breakstones® cottage cheese, ricotta and sour cream, Cracker Barrel® cheese, Black Diamond® cheddar cheese, Parmalat® milk, , yogurt brands such as siggi's®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Green Mountain Creamery®, Mountain High, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio,® Oui® and Karoun®, Gopi®, Arz® and other brands in the ethnic channel.. In the United States the company has approximately 5,000 employees, with 13 manufacturing facilities located in 9 states, and corporate offices in New York City, San Fernando, Calif., Chicago, Ill., Minneapolis, Minn., Buffalo, N.Y. and Bedford, N.H. Lactalis USA is part of Lactalis Group, the world's leading dairy company, a French family business founded in 1933 in Laval, France. For more information about Lactalis USA's divisions, visit and Follow Lactalis USA on Instagram and like us on Facebook. Disclaimer: The above press release comes to you under an arrangement with GlobeNewswire. Business Upturn takes no editorial responsibility for the same. Ahmedabad Plane Crash
Bloomberg
30-06-2025
- Health
- Bloomberg
Yoplait, Go-Gurt Are Up for Ingredient Review, Lactalis Says
Top dairymaker Lactalis says it will assess ingredients in newly-acquired yogurt brands like Yoplait and Go-Gurt as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s 'Make America Healthy Movement' campaigns for changes in the US food supply, including reducing sugar and removing artificial ingredients. The company, which completed its acquisition of General Mills's US yogurt business on Monday, will start discussions on ingredients within the next 30 days, said Lactalis US Yogurt Chief Executive Officer Bill Cassidy. The deal was first announced last September.
Associated Press
30-06-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Successful completion of Lactalis USA Acquisition of General Mills U.S. Yogurt Business
CHICAGO, June 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lactalis USA, the U.S. affiliate of Lactalis, the world's largest dairy company, has completed today the previously announced acquisition of General Mills' U.S. yogurt business. With this acquisition, Lactalis USA acquires the Yoplait® Go-Gurt®, Oui®, Mountain High® and :ratio® businesses in the U.S. The acquired business represents approximately $1.2 billion in annual net sales. The acquisition includes approximately 1,000 employees and two manufacturing facilities in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and Reed City, Mich. The acquired business will operate as Midwest Yogurt, a newly formed division of Lactalis USA based in Minneapolis, Minn. Lactalis plans to invest significant resources in Midwest Yogurt employees, brands and manufacturing facilities to support the future growth of this new division. 'This acquisition advances our U.S. growth strategy and strengthens our position as an emerging leader in the U.S. yogurt market. Incorporating the popular Yoplait brand into our house of U.S. dairy product brands will create important, new opportunities for growth and product innovation, as well as positive impacts for our customers, communities and employees,' said Lactalis USA CEO Esteve Torrens. 'At our core, Lactalis is a family company dedicated to providing delicious, affordable dairy products and investing in our people and in our business. Today, we are excited to welcome 1,000 new colleagues into the Lactalis USA family to add another chapter to the Lactalis USA story that began over 40 years ago.' 'The Yoplait team looks forward to an exciting future as part of Lactalis USA. By leveraging Lactalis' expertise and dairy know-how we will grow our portfolio of brands that consumers love and trust,' said Lactalis Midwest Yogurt CEO, Kerry DeLaney, Lactalis USA's yogurt business now comprises two divisions, Lactalis U.S. Yogurt and Midwest Yogurt. Both divisions manufacture and market a portfolio of well-known brands. Lactalis U.S. Yogurt's product portfolio ranges from organic and high protein yogurts, to yogurt for children and indulgent desserts that includes the brands Stonyfield Organic®, siggi's®, Brown Cow and Green Mountain Creamery®. About Lactalis USA Lactalis USA is committed to enriching lives by producing nutritious and great-tasting dairy products. The company offers an unrivaled house of beloved dairy brands in the United States including Galbani® Italian cheeses, Président® specialty cheeses and gourmet butters, Kraft® brands in natural and grated cheeses, Breakstones® cottage cheese, ricotta and sour cream, Cracker Barrel® cheese, Black Diamond® cheddar cheese, Parmalat® milk, , yogurt brands such as siggi's®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Green Mountain Creamery®, Mountain High, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio,® Oui® and Karoun®, Gopi®, Arz® and other brands in the ethnic channel.. In the United States the company has approximately 5,000 employees, with 13 manufacturing facilities located in 9 states, and corporate offices in New York City, San Fernando, Calif., Chicago, Ill., Minneapolis, Minn., Buffalo, N.Y. and Bedford, N.H. Lactalis USA is part of Lactalis Group, the world's leading dairy company, a French family business founded in 1933 in Laval, France. For more information about Lactalis USA's divisions, visit and Follow Lactalis USA on Instagram and like us on Facebook. Christopher Bona Lactalis USA 312-934-2160 [email protected] Hannah Feist Lactalis USA (651) 270-0208 [email protected]
The Onion
02-05-2025
- Business
- The Onion
Chobani CEO Warns New Hire They In The Yogurt Game Now
NEW BERLIN, NY—Taking the rookie employee aside to offer him 'a word to the wise,' Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya warned new hire Austin Cook that he was in the yogurt game now, company sources confirmed Friday. 'I don't know what they taught you back in the boonies of the almond milk world, but you better be ready to step up, because you're doing bacterial fermentation now, playboy,' Ulukaya said as he firmly jabbed a finger into Cook's chest, adding that if the new hire couldn't hack it in the yogurt game's cutthroat climate of competition and live cultures, he should do them both a favor and resign on the spot. 'You're running with the big dogs here, and I need you to eat, sleep, and breathe yogurt. You see that portrait hanging above my desk? That's the guy who invented Go-Gurt. You work hard, you can end up like him. You don't, this industry will grind you up like the fruit on the bottom of a cup of Dannon. And don't just tell me we should make kefir. I know about kefir. What I want to know is: What's seven steps beyond kefir?' At press time, Ulukaya had quietly told the new hire to get the fuck out of his building after the man proposed branching out into skyr.
Yahoo
15-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Kindergarten teacher begs parents to stop sending this 1 snack to school
For the sake of her sanity — and the classroom carpet — elementary teacher Amy McMahon is begging parents to stop sending their kids to school with syrup-filled grenades. 'I have a PSA for parents who pack their children's lunches,' McMahon says in a TikTok video. 'I love helping your child get their lunch settled and opening things for them. I don't, however, particularly enjoy these things.' In the clip, she holds up a fruit cup packed with glistening mandarin slices. 'They are actually impossible, parents, to open in the classroom without spilling them and getting syrupy, sticky juice all over my clothes,' McMahon explains. 'I don't really wear nice things anymore because of these fruit cups.' 'Don't get me wrong, they're delicious and I know the children love them,' she acknowledges. 'However, I think they would be a fantastic snack for after school — at home!' McMahon, who now teaches third grade at Jubilee Christian School in West Covina, California, worked with kindergarteners for more than 15 years. She still shudders when she spots a fruit cup. 'What I ended up doing was poking a straw through the lid so the kids could drink the juice before I opened it for them,' McMahon tells It turns out that McMahon isn't the only educator with a disdain for single-serve peaches and pears. 'YES!!!!!!!!! Finally, someone tells parents how awful those are,' one person wrote in the comments on McMahon's TikTok video. 'Hahaha. I actually banned these from my kinder class. Well not really. I just nicely asked parents to please put them in another container.' 'I am irrationally afraid of those. Like I have to take a breath every time I open one from a kid.' 'I used to go open them over the sink and drain half the juice out. They are my worst enemy.' 'Our cafeteria serves it with the meal sometimes as a fruit so I get to open 20 of them!' 'We beg parents at back-to-school night not to send those to school!!' 'SOMEONE HAD TO SAY IT!!! Thank you they are a nightmare in my pre-K class!! One of my kiddos tripped over fruit juice that spilled.' According to McMahon, Capri Sun juice pouches are equally troublesome, with their minuscule and nearly impossible-to-puncture straw holes. And don't get McMahon started on Go-Gurt Yogurt tubes. 'I started keeping food scissors around because if you try to tear them open, yogurt is going to splatter everywhere,' McMahon says. 'Go-Gurt, Capri Sun, and fruit cups — I'm convinced parents send them to school because they don't want their kids opening them at home!' This article was originally published on
