Stonyfield Organic is owned by Lactalis (France), which acquired the brand on 1 August 2017 for $875 million from Danone.[1][2] Before Lactalis, Stonyfield Organic was owned by Danone from 2003 to 2017.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Our brands - Lactalis USA, Lactalis USA (Groupe Lactalis). Last checked .
Stonyfield began in 1983 as a farming school in New Hampshire that sold yoghurt to fund itself, and became the largest organic yoghurt brand in the United States. Lactalis bought it in 2017 when Danone was required to divest it to clear its acquisition of WhiteWave.
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Lactalis controls 12 brands on Brandtree, 12 of them in food.
The 83 brands in yogurt on Brandtree belong to 48 owners. The largest is Danone, with 5; Lactalis has 3.
Lactalis is a family-owned company headquartered in Laval, France, founded in 1933. Brandtree records 12 brands under its control.
Lactalis is the largest dairy company in the world by revenue, founded in Laval, France in 1933 and still owned by the Besnier family, which has never listed it. It publishes limited financial information and has grown almost entirely by acquiring national dairy champions across Europe, the Americas and Australia.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Stonyfield Organic among them.
Lactalis acquired Stonyfield Farm from Danone for about $875 million. Danone was selling because American antitrust authorities required it to divest Stonyfield as a condition of completing its purchase of WhiteWave Foods, so this acquisition exists only because of a remedy imposed on another deal in this dataset.
The parent company of Stonyfield Organic is Lactalis, a family-owned company headquartered in France.
Stonyfield Organic originated in the United States in 1983, but it is owned today by Lactalis, which is headquartered in France. So Stonyfield Organic is an American-origin brand under French ownership.
Lactalis completed its acquisition of Stonyfield Organic on 1 August 2017, after announcing the deal on 3 July 2017. The deal was valued at $875 million (enterprise value).
Before Lactalis, Stonyfield Organic was owned by Danone from 2003 until 2017.
Yes. As of 16 September 2026, Stonyfield Organic is still owned by Lactalis. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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