Talk:Dean Foods
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Land_O'Lakes says Dean Foods is a competitor, while the Dean Foods article says Land O'Lakes is owned by Dean.
- Dean licenses the Land O' Lakes brand for some products. ENeville 03:27, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
I've removed the claim that Dean Foods sells a majority of the milk sold in the United States. One company webpage says Dean sells "over 2 billion gallons of milk a year", and another says there were 170 billion pounds of milk produced in the U.S. Even with some ambiguity in these numbers, it's hard to get Dean's market share above 20%. On a purely anecdotal level, the milk market seems highly fragmented, and it doesn't seem unlikely that no single producer has more than 20%. 71.247.36.99 02:04, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Merge from White Wave
White Wave Foods is (apparently) wholly owned by Dean Foods, and the article has little content. A merge into this article seems appropriate at this time. ENeville 03:30, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Borden
Milk Products, LP owns Borden, according to its website. Does Dean license it, as it does with Land O Lakes?
[edit] Merging articles
The beauty of Dean Foods is that it has purchased all these fine local brands, has left them more or less autonomous, and has enhanced, not destroyed, these new components. The Dean website itself suggests their formula. While their are obvious links, merging the article does not change the fact that Jilbert's is still Jilbert's (for example), although it is no longer family owned. The character has remained the same. If these other companies are to be merged, they could (at least) be kept as separate sections. Dean Foods has not chosen to 'homogenize' its operation, so to speak, and this article shouldn't do that either. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 19:16, 18 January 2008 (UTC)Stan
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