Stonyfield Farm
Industry: Dairy products
Headquarters: Manchester, NH
Founder: Samuel Kaymen
Founded: 1983
Markets: United States, France, United Kingdom, Canada
Interviewed: Gary Hirshberg, President and CEO
Stonyfield Farm produces and sells healthy, organic dairy products. The company makes the number-one selling brand of organic yogurt and number-three overall yogurt brand in the United States.The firm’s founders set out to try to prove that a business could make the environment and family farmers a priority and still succeed and be economical; they have proven that bottom line orientation is not a prerequisite for business success. Stonyfield Farm is committed to keeping artificial ingredients out of food. To that end, the firm uses only pure all natural and organic ingredients, with no preservatives or artificial flavors, colors and sweeteners. Stonyfield only uses premium milk from farmers who have pledged not to use the synthetic bovine growth hormone, rBGH. All of the organic ingredients are produced without the use of antibiotics, synthetic growth hormones or toxic and persistent pesticides and fertilizers.
Stonyfield Farm’s community involvement philosophy is based on the idea that business needs to be part of the solution to environmental, social, and community problems. The mission is to show consumers that they can relate to commerce in a different way, beyond just the exchange of money and products. Stonyfield wants to change the way consumers view business from a way to make some people rich at the expense of others, to a force that can do genuine good in communities and the world.
Stonyfield Farm
1050 Perimeter Road,
Manchester, NH 03103
www.stonyfield.com
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