Dallas-based Dean Foods Co. is a Fortune 500 food and beverage company and the largest processor and direct-to-store distributor of fresh fluid milk and other dairy case products in the United States. The company has 15,000 employees, operates about 60 processing facilities throughout the country and has about 5,000 delivery trucks on America’s roads daily.

Among the company’s many grocery, food service, institutional and other customers, the company serves 32,500 schools, and last year schoolchildren enjoyed about 1.8 billion half-pints of Dean Foods milk. The company has about 50 regional and national brands and annual revenues of about $8 billion.