Type Public Owner Upstate Dairy Number of employees 350 (2008) | Industry Dairy Motto Freshness You Can Spot Area served Pennsylvania | |
Products Milk
Fat free/skim/reduced fat milk
Ice Cream
Ice tea/lemonade Production output 450,000 gallons of milk (a week in 2008) Website www.valleyfarmsdairy.com Headquarters Loyalsock Township, Pennsylvania, United States | ||
Valley Farms Dairy is a public dairy owned by Upstate Dairy from New York and is located and headquartered in the Williamsport suburb of Loyalsock Township, Pennsylvania.
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History
The dairy was founded in 1935 as Schneider's Dairy, Inc. by Edward C. Schneider and Catherine W. Schneider, when they purchased a small dairy in Whitehall, Pennsylvania, located in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. At that time, 80 gallons of milk were brought to the plant daily in five-gallons cans, where they were weighed, tested and dumped into vats for pasteurization. The Schneider family soon demonstrated its commitment to expansion and reinvestment in the company. In 1939, they constructed a new and larger dairy building on the old site. The company added employees, drivers, and trucks and made investments in new production equipment. These commitments to expansion were to become a company hallmark.
The company grew extremely quickly. By 1985, the dairy had 190 employees and was processing more than 30,000 gallons of milk daily. In 1986, it sold 60 Open Pantry Food Mart convenience stores to Uni-Mart, Inc., and reinvested the proceeds in the dairy operation.
In 1994, Schneider's Dairy purchased Valley Farms Dairy in Williamsport from Uni-Mart, an investment that more than doubled the capacity of the business.
Customers
At the height of the company's susess in the early to mid 2000s, the company markets these products to schools, healthcare facilities, supermarkets, convenience stores, restaurants, and food service companies throughout most of Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, parts of West Virginia, southern New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.