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Dean Foods enhances
Southern California fleet
with Ryder CNG vehicles

Ryder System Inc (NYSE: R) has delivered five natural gas-fueled delivery vehicles to Dean Foods, Ryder’s first customer for NG commercial vehicles made available through its agreement with the San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG) in Southern California....

Quantum, Agility help
dairy trucks run cleaner

Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc (Nasdaq: QTWW) has received a $434,000 contract for high-capacity natural gas on-board storage tanks from Agility Fuel Systems for use in Class 8 renewable natural gas-powered dairy trucks....

Clean Energy contracts
with Fair Oaks affiliate
to build CNG fuel station

Renewable Dairy Fuels, an affiliate of Indiana milk producer Fair Oaks Dairy, has contracted with Clean Energy Fuels Corporation (Nasdaq: CLNE) to build and operate a new compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station that will dispense CNG fuel to power the initial fleet of 42 CNG milk-hauling trucks the dairy plans to deploy later in 2011....

General Mills agrees
to acquire Yoplait share

General Mills (NYSE: GIS) has signed definitive agreements with PAI partners and Sodiaal to acquire a 51% controlling interest in Yoplait SAS and a 50% interest in a related entity. ...

Fonterra boosts its profits,
productivity via eCertify

International dairy exporter Fonterra has increased profits and productivity by using the eCertify online system to process trade documentation electronically....

IDFA embraces plan
to resolve US-Mexico
border trucking dispute

Outlining the need to regain full duty-free access to the US dairy industry’s largest export market, the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) strongly supports the proposed cross-border trucking agreement between the United States and Mexico developed by the US Department of Transportation (DOT)....

Rians plans to acquire
Marin French Cheese Co

Marin French Cheese Company and Rians have entered into a final agreement in which the 146-year-old California cheese company will be acquired by Rians, a family-owned French cheese company....

Mobile Manifest gives milk
carriers real-time tools

Dairy.com, provider of web-based dairy industry supply chain systems, has released its milk manifest handling technology called Mobile Manifest. ...

Private equity firm GTCR
completes Fairmount
Cheese sale to Saputo

Private equity firm GTCR has completed the previously announced sale of Fairmount Cheese Holdings Inc, the parent company of DCI Cheese Company Inc, to Saputo Inc for $270.5 million....

Swiss Valley Farms
deploys Logility Inc's
Voyager Solutions suite

Swiss Valley Farms, a four-state dairy cooperative with 1,000 members and annual sales in excess of $300 million, has deployed Logility Inc’s Voyager Solutions to improve forecast accuracy and help the company expand into new international markets....

GTCR will sell Fairmount
Cheese to Saputo Inc

Private equity firm GTCR announced its portfolio company Fairmount Cheese Holdings Inc, parent company of DCI Cheese Company Inc, has signed a definitive agreement to be purchased by Saputo Inc....

IDFA urges swift passage
of free trade agreements

The International Dairy Foods Association has urged the US Congress to move quickly to approve pending free trade agreements (FTAs) with the Republic of Korea, Colombia, and Panama....

Danone subsidiary agrees
to merge with YoCream

YoCream International Inc has entered into a definitive merger agreement with fresh dairy products company Danone under which a Danone subsidiary will merge with YoCream....

Siedhoff skims off
excess operating costs
via Goodyear tire program

Ah, the milkman. He conjures memories of yesteryear and Ozzie and Harriet, when delivery trucks made their way around neighborhoods delivering milk in glass bottles. But just as the car replaced the horse, supermarkets and convenient stores replaced milkmen and home delivery....