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Land O'Lakes was founded on July 8, 1921, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, by representatives from 320 cooperative creameries as the Minnesota Cooperative Creameries Association. This organization aimed to improve marketing and quality of butter, and thus increase the profitability of dairying .
At the helm of Land O’Lakes is Beth Ford, the first woman to lead the $19 billion Arden Hills, Minnesota, cooperative, which has 9,000 employees and 2,809 member-owners.
But Beth Ford, the CEO of $19-billion-in-revenue dairy cooperative Land O’Lakes, is one of the Fortune 500 chief executives trying to thread this needle. “I talk policy, not politics,” Ford ...
She stated that the new images of fields, lakes, and farmers on their packaging represent Land O’ Lakes is a cooperative, owned not by public market shareholders but by the farmers who make its butter, animal feed and more. [4] In a 2022 interview, Ford shared her experience on what has shaped her to become a CEO.
Land O’Lakes, No. 213 on the Fortune 500 with over $19 billion in revenue, has seen double the number of applicants and significantly improved retention since implementing its new system ...
Regional agricultural co-operatives, such as Land O'Lakes and the former Farmland Industries, are co-operative federations owned by local farmers' co-operatives. Like the Co-operative Group (above), Land O'Lakes is actually a hybrid of a primary and secondary co-operative. [4]
The National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) is a United States membership organization for cooperatives, which are businesses that are jointly owned and democratically controlled. The association was founded in 1916 as the Cooperative League of the United States of America .
George Street Co-op; Great River Energy; Greenbelt Homes, Inc. [8] Greenbelt News Review [9] Group Health Cooperative; GROWMARK, Inc. Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society; Inter-Cooperative Council at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor MI) [10] Land O'Lakes; Madison Community Co-op; MFA Incorporated; Michigan State University Student Housing ...