Dairy foods giant Dean Foods, Dallas, plans to contest a complaint filed last week by the Department of Justice challenging Dean's April 2009 acquisition of Foremost Farms.

The Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today against Dean Foods Company challenging its April 2009 acquisition of Foremost Farms USA's Consumer Products Division.

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Hero/WhiteWave introduces Europe’s popular chilled real fruit snack to U.S. markets.

Dairy giant Dean Foods, Dallas, said it will promote Joseph Scalzo to Dean Foods chief operating officer, effective November 1.

Jack Brown, chairman, president and CEO of Stater Bros. Holdings, Inc. said Stater Bros.Markets, completed the sale of Santee Dairies to Dallas-based Dean Foods Inc.

Dean Foods Co., Dallas, will pay approximately $450 million to acquire the Alpro division of Vandemoortele N.V., Belgium's largest privately held food company.

CPG giants Dean Foods Company, Dallas, and Campbell Soup Co., Camden, N.J., each announced corporate office building activities.

Hero/WhiteWave LLC, a joint venture between Switzerland's Hero Group and Dean Foods' WhiteWave Foods, opened a $35 million plant in Mount Crawford, Va., to produce Fruit2day, a refrigerated juice drink.

Dairy giant Dean Foods Company, Dallas, said it hired Barbara Carlini as senior vice president and chief information officer.