Danone North America is a consumer

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and beverage company based in White Plains, New York, U.S., that manufactures, markets, distributes, and sells branded premium

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products (including

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), plant-based foods and beverages,

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s, and

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throughout

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and

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. WhiteWave was purchased by French conglomerate

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in 2017 for $12.5 billion, being then renamed to "DanoneWave".

History

The company was established as "WhiteWave Foods" in 1977 by Steve Demos in

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, to expand

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into the market. The company was formerly a

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Dean Foods Dean Foods was an American food and beverage company and the largest dairy company in the United States. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the company maintained plants and distributors in the United States. Dean Foods had 66 manufacturing faciliti ...

, and was spun off in an

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announced in August 2012. Dean Foods had acquired WhiteWave in May 2002. WhiteWave acquired

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, America's largest grower of organic produce, on January 2, 2014, for about $600 million. In September 2014, WhiteWave announced they were taking over vegan dessert and beverage company, So Delicious. WhiteWave announced on October 31, 2014, that the So Delicious takeover was complete. On July 7, 2016, French food and beverage manufacturer

announced a $12.5 billion deal to acquire WhiteWave. On August 15, WhiteWave announced a meeting had been scheduled for October 4 for stockholders to vote on the Danone takeover. The WhiteWave board unanimously recommend that the takeover bid be accepted. On March 31, 2017, Danone announced it had reached an agreement with the

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concerning its WhiteWave transaction for $12.5 billion, wherein Danone sold its " Stonyfield dairy subsidiary in the months after the WhiteWave acquisition closes." The acquisition was completed in April 2017 and newly formed company was named "DanoneWave" and in April 2018 it was renamed "Danone North America". It now operates as a subsidiary and the headquarters remains in Denver.

Brands

The company’s brands distributed in North America include

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dairy and pantry products,

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plant-based foods and beverages, Left Field Farms creamer and milk, Stok cold-brew coffee, So Delicious nut milk and yogurt, and

International Delight Danone North America is a consumer packaged food and beverage company based in White Plains, New York, U.S., that manufactures, markets, distributes, and sells branded premium dairy products (including yogurt), plant-based foods and beverages, cof ...

and

Land O'Lakes Land O'Lakes, Inc. is an American member-owned agricultural cooperative based in the Minneapolis-St. Paul suburb of Arden Hills, Minnesota, United States, focusing on the dairy industry. The cooperative has 1,959 direct producer-members, 751 m ...

coffee creamers and beverages. WhiteWave’s European brands of plant-based foods and beverages include

Alpro Alpro is a European company based in Wevelgem, Belgium, that markets organic and non-organic, non-genetically modified, plant-based products, such as foods and drinks made from soy, almonds, hazelnuts, cashew, rice, oats or coconut. Alpro employ ...

and

Provamel Alpro is a European company based in Wevelgem, Belgium, that markets organic and non-organic, Genetically modified organism, non-genetically modified, plant-based diet, plant-based products, such as foods and drinks made from Soybean, soy, almonds ...

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