Industry Dairy Area served Pacific Northwest | Founder John Karamanos Founded 1935 | |
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Headquarters 801 NE 21st AvePortland, Oregon 97232United States Key people Dirk T. Davis, CEORob Johnson, Marketing Products Milk, organic milk, buttermilk, sour cream, chocolate milk, drinking chocolate, cottage cheese, whipping cream, creamer, yogurts | ||
611 sunshine dairy ne 21st and ne oregon
Sunshine Dairy is a dairy supplier in the Kerns neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States. The company was founded in 1935. As well as a full line of dairy products, the company also produces almond milk, and soy and coconut yogurts at its processing facility at Northeast 84th Avenue and Halsey Street in Portland.
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In June 2013, after more than 75 years of the Karamanos family running daily operations, Dirk T. Davis became CEO. The Sunshine company continues under ownership of John Karamanos' great-grandsons who sit on the board of directors.
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History
Sunshine Dairy Foods was founded in the mid-1930s by Greek restaurateur John Karamanos, who originally began the dairy delivery service for his friends working in Portland's food industry. There were 50 independent dairy processors in the city at this time.
In 1994, customers began asking Sunshine numerous growth hormone-related questions when the U.S. Food & Drug Administration approved the use of Bovine Somatotropin (rBST) that year. In 2001, Sunshine Dairy became the first dairy in the area to buy only rBST-free milk.
Sunshine's largest vendor is Farmers Cooperative Creamery (FCC). FCC members are almost universally family farmers who manage small to mid-sized farms in the Willamette Valley of Oregon and the Yakima Valley and Chehalis in Washington.