Our Vision

To be the leading U.S. dairy ingredients brand – continually pursuing excellence to deliver nutrition globally.

Our Mission

In an ever-changing world, our strength and purpose is the DairyAmerica brand that we collectively market to develop and maintain global strategic customer partnerships, relationships, and loyalty. Strategically our exceptional team applies insight coupled with operational expertise, speed, and agility to market the quality valued products our members and partners produce.

Our Core Values

Partnership: We foster strong relationships with our Members and Partners, and strive to meet their evolving needs.

Honor: Our history, engagement, and ethics allow us to take pride in our company and the trusted DairyAmerica brand.

Integrity: We are a team who values each other, our affiliates, our partners, and treat our customers with honesty and respect.

Evolution: We constantly adapt to meet the changing needs of our customers, both internal and external.

Passion: We recognize that our diverse and versatile team are empowered to achieve their best.

Supply chain

Where It Began

Established in 1995 by Danish Creamery, Dairymen’s Cooperative Creamery Association, and California Milk Producers, DairyAmerica was created to manage the sales and marketing of Nonfat and Skim Milk Powders.

Headquartered in the Challenge Dairies office in Dublin, California, DairyAmerica launched and was poised to deliver milk powders across the country.

1995
DairyAmerica formed in Dublin, CA
Original Members consisted of Challenge Dairy, Danish Creamery, California Milk Producers, and Dairymen’s Cooperative Creamery (Land O’ Lakes, 1998)
1998
Offices move to Fresno, California
1999
California Dairies, Inc., formed
(Merger of Danish Creamery, CMP, and SJVD)
2000
Agrimark Becomes A Member of DairyAmerica Inc.
2000
O-AT-KA Becomes A Member of DairyAmerica Inc.
2023
DairyAmerica becomes the Ingredients Group of California Dairies, Inc.

DairyAmerica Today

Today, under the leadership of President Patti Smith, DairyAmerica is now California Dairies, Inc.’s Ingredients Group. This is our continued process in strengthening our global competitiveness.

DairyAmerica’s quality milk powders are still marketed under the same brand name, and continue to market Agri-Mark, Inc. and O-AT-KA Milk Products through marketing agreements.

Supplying products across the globe to more than 50 countries, CDI is the largest Skim Milk Powder supplier in the world.