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Groupe Danone
We have a unique partnership with Groupe Danone, the French company known for its biscuits, Evian brand bottled water and Dannon yogurt.
Between 2001 and 2003, Groupe Danone bought about 85% of our company shares. Typically, when a big conglomerate buys a smaller organic or natural-food company, the smaller company undergoes management changes. But Groupe Danone has allowed us to continue managing our company autonomously, and we've remained true to our mission.
Gary Hirshberg, who co-founded our company in 1983, is still our chairman. We're still using the finest ingredients to make pure, delicious organic food. And our use of organic ingredients helps support hundreds of family farms and keep more than 200,000 farm acres free of toxic, persistent pesticides and other agricultural chemicals.
Brown Cow
In February 2003, we bought Brown Cow Farm, the West Coast producer of super-premium all-natural yogurts. With Brown Cow, we share similar philosophies about healthy, delicious yogurt and a healthy planet.
We both use only natural ingredients and milk from farmers who've pledged not to treat their cows with the artificial growth hormone rBST. We're also both committed to environmental health and jointly give 10% of our profits to efforts that help protect and restore the planet.
Stonyfield Café
Our former CE-Yo and current chairman, Gary, got the idea for an altogether new kind of fast-food restaurant while traveling with his family and feeling, as he put it, "held hostage to junk food."
Gary partnered with Mac McCabe to create a restaurant that would offer fast, casual, delicious, healthy food. In 2001, they opened "O'Naturals" in Falmouth, Maine. In 2010, they changed the name to "Stonyfield Café."
In 2011, Stonyfield Café kiosks opened on Boston's North Station train platform and in the TD Garden arena. Stonyfield Café sandwiches are sold during events at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, NH. There's also a cafe in Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital that's hanging onto the old "O'Naturals" name.
Healthy food, fast.
Stonyfield Café serves soups, salads, sandwiches, drinks and desserts made from fine ingredients that are local whenever possible and either all-natural or organic. Look for the Stonyfield Café:
- At The Shops at Falmouth Village, 240 U.S. Route 1, Falmouth, Maine
- On Boston's North Station train platform and in the TD Garden arena
- At Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital (O'Naturals)
- At the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, NH
