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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Aug. 1, 2008
INTERNATIONAL INGREDIENT
CORPORATION ACQUIRES PETFOOD CHEESE FACILITY FROM LAND O’LAKES
The Lake City, Minnesota Plant
Will Continue to Make Spray Dried Cheese Powders
FENTON, Mo.
– International Ingredient Corporation has acquired Land
O’Lakes’ petfood-grade cheese drying plant in Lake City, Minn.
The plant manufactures spray dried cheese powders for use in the
petfood and animal feeding industries.
The plant
will continue to produce the same high-quality petfood-grade
dried cheese products for existing and new customers. The local
management staff and work force will continue to operate the
plant.
The cheese
powders produced at the Lake City, Minn., facility are used as
ingredients for improving palatability and nutrition of petfood
and other animal feed products. Land O’Lakes will continue to
provide the cheese raw materials utilized in the plant.
“The
acquisition of the Land O’Lakes petfood-grade cheese plant in
Lake City will give International Ingredient more production
capacity and products to supply the petfood market,” said
Clayton Brown, COO of the International Companies.
“In addition, we’re happy that the plant’s existing
customers will be able to continue to work with the same plant
staff they’ve trusted for years.”
”We are
excited that the Lake City drying plant and all of the good
people working there will be joining our team here at IIC,” said
Jim Sullivan, president of International Ingredient Corporation.
Adding, “We look forward to providing the same high-quality
products and outstanding service to the former Land O’Lakes
customers who have used the products from the Lake City, Minn.,
plant.”
International Ingredient Corporation is a manufacturer of feed
and petfood ingredients based on co-products from the food
industry. The St. Louis, Mo.-based company is owned by Fred
Brown and family. The company operates nine processing
facilities and produces products ranging from brewer’s dried
yeast to cheese powders to milk chocolate powders to dried dairy
powders and sugar products.
Contact:
Mark Warren, vice president of Plant Operations
Tel. 636 343
4111
Email MWarren
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