DALLAS, July 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Quality milk
comes from quality farms, and Dean Foods is proud to provide dairy
products that maintain that quality all the way to the
refrigerators of families across the country. For their excellence
in protecting quality from farm to table, Dean Foods dairy plants
in Buena Park, California, and
Braselton, Georgia, were awarded
the 2016 Dean Foods CEO Quality Awards for ice cream and fluid
milk, respectively. The plants were selected over nearly 70 other
Dean Foods facilities after a rigorous, one-year judging process,
and this award is among the company's top honors.
"Dean Foods holds its plants to incredibly high standards to
ensure the quality of our products, which makes the competition for
these awards particularly tough," said CEO Gregg Tanner. "We are thrilled with the level of
excellence embodied by our Buena
Park and Braselton
facilities, and we're proud of their exemplary work."
The Dean Foods CEO Quality Award is the culmination of an
intensive assessment process. First, a handful of plants are
selected as winners of the Excellence in Quality Award based on
multiple criteria such as Safe Quality Food (SQF) Program scores,
employee training participation and consumer complaint
improvement.
These plants were selected and scrutinized further by Dean
Foods' senior leadership who considered quality innovations, best
practices and the "quality culture" within the plant. The
Buena Park and Braselton plants emerged as the cream of the
crop in the ice cream and fluid milk categories.
About Dean Foods
Dean Foods® is a leading food and
beverage company and the largest processor and direct-to-store
distributor of fresh fluid milk and other dairy and dairy case
products in the United States.
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas,
the Dean Foods portfolio includes DairyPure®, the country's first
and largest fresh, white milk national brand, and TruMoo®, the
leading national flavored milk brand, along with well-known
regional dairy brands such as Alta Dena®, Berkeley Farms®, Country
Fresh®, Dean's®, Garelick Farms®, Friendly's®, LAND O LAKES®* milk
and cultured products*, Lehigh Valley Dairy Farms®, Mayfield®,
McArthur®, Meadow Gold®, Oak Farms®, PET®**, T.G. Lee®, Tuscan® and
more. In all, Dean Foods has more than 50 national, regional and
local dairy brands as well as private labels. Dean Foods also makes
and distributes ice cream, cultured products, juices, teas, and
bottled water. Almost 17,000 employees across the country work
every day to make Dean Foods the most admired and trusted provider
of wholesome, great-tasting dairy products at every occasion. For
more information about Dean Foods and its brands, visit
www.deanfoods.com.
*The LAND O LAKES brand is owned by Land O'Lakes, Inc. and is
used by license.
**PET is a trademark of The J.M. Smucker Company and is used by
license.
CONTACT: Dustin Cox, 214-721-7766
or media@deanfoods.com
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