EEO/AA/Female/Minority/Disabled/VeteranIf you'd like more information on your EEO rights under the law, About Dean Foods Company. Join our team of more than 16,000 people, working to make our vision of a healthy future come to life, both in our Dallas headquarters and plants across the U.S. View current vacancies at Dean Foods. Dallas-based Dean Foods has reached a $425 million deal to sell 44 of its milk processing facilities to Dairy Farmers of America as part of a court-supervised sale of company assets. Dean Foods was an American food and beverage company and the largest dairy company in the United States. In seven of its last eight quarters, Dean Foods has reported a net loss. The 94-year-old company has struggled in recent years because Americans are drinking less cows milk. The views … 10,000+ Employees.
Dean Foods is one of the nation's leading dairy processors and distributors producing a full line of branded and private label products, including fluid milk, ice cream and extended shelf life products, which are sold under the Dean's and other regional brand names. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the company maintains plants and distributors in the United States.
Dean Foods was founded by Samuel E. Dean, Sr., who owned an evaporated milk processing facility in In December 2001, the legacy brand of Dean Foods was acquired by the In August 2006, Dean Foods acquired Jilbert's Dairy, a 70-year-old family business near 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.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,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.In the first quarter of 2010 the company moved to the In 2011, a class action suit was brought against Deans Foods over health claims made on the packaging of Horizon Organic Milk.Dean Foods spun off WhiteWave Foods, the maker of Horizon Organic and Silk Soymilk, as a standalone company in May 2013.In May 2015 Dean Foods announced that they would introduce a national milk brand, DairyPure, which would appear alongside regional brands, in an attempt to boost sales.Southern Foods Group, LLC d/b/a Dean Foods, and forty-two (42) affiliated companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Dean Foods products include milk, ice cream, dairy products, cheese, juice, and teas.