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MEMBER & INDUSTRY NEWS

Byrne Dairy celebrated its Founders Day on Feb. 3, marking 87 successful years since Matthew V. Byrne established the company. Congratulations! Upon the retirement of Steve Murphy, Mary Wilcox was recently named executive vice president of The Dairy Practices Council, a nonprofit organization of education, industry and regulatory personnel concerned with milk quality, sanitation and regulatory uniformity publishing education guidelines for the dairy industry.

Dopkins & Company, LLP, a full service accounting and consulting firm out of Buffalo, New York, announced that Andrew J. Reading, CPA, has been named a partner with the firm. A member of the Dopkins Assurance Service Group, he serves as the leader of the firm’s food and beverage industry service group with specializations in dairy and cooperatives. During his tenure, he has regularly advised food and beverage clients on complex business transactions related to mergers and acquisitions, significant contracts with customers and financing arrangements. Additionally, he has led numerous improvement initiatives for clients related to profitability and internal controls. Cream O Land Dairy’s Cream O Land product was ranked in the top ten brands of refrigerated whole milk that posted double-digit gains, according to research from the Chicago-based market research firm IRI in a February article on DairyFoods. com. Cream O Land posted a 122.4% dollar sales increase and a 117.5% increase in unit sales. Another positive was HP Hood’s

Hood Lactaid, which saw an increase of 11.6% in sales and a 9.5% rise in unit sales in 2019.

With the emerging interest from consumers for differentiated milk and dairy products with specific beta-caseins, leading food laboratory Eurofins Scientific now performs a test to detect A1 and A2 beta-caseins. Eurofins offers analysis to be done on all products containing caseins, and the methods have so far been validated on everything from raw milk to finished product, including homogenized, pasteurized fluid milk, milk powder, yogurt, cheese and butter. Since the launch of this in November 2019 in the U.S., the company has received a great deal of interest both domestically and abroad. Herbein + Company, Inc. announced that David W. Stonesifer, CPA, has become Herbein + Company, Inc.’s managing partner as part of the firm’s previously released succession plan. Stonesifer succeeds Michael J. Rowley, CPA/ABV, CVA, CFF. Rowley previously succeeded Carl D. Herbein, CPA, who founded the firm in 1972. Under their leadership, Herbein has grown to be recognized as one of the top 115 largest firms in the United States, according to Accounting Today. While his focus is soundly on the future, Stonesifer is also appreciative of all he’s learned from Rowley and Herbein. “I am very cognizant of the responsibilities I will be inheriting, including our clients’ success, our team’s growth and their families security and prosperity, and our continuing support of the communities in which we serve. Carl and Mike have set the bar high, but

knowing our team and our culture, I am confident that our firm’s future is very strong,” he said.

The International Dairy Foods Association is seeking applicants for its 2020 summer internship, which will offer one undergraduate or recent graduate firsthand experience in Washington, D.C., with the association’s advocacy efforts on dairy policy with lawmakers on Capitol Hill and federal officials in regulatory agencies. The position is paid and will begin in May or June for 10 to 12 weeks. Students with an interest in food and agriculture policy are encouraged to apply. Applicants must be currently enrolled or have recently graduated from an accredited college or university while pursuing a Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in business, political science, international affairs, agriculture, the food and beverage industry, food science or a related field. For more information, visit idfa.org or contact Heather Soubra, IDFA, 1250 H St. NW, Suite 900, Washington, D.C., 20005. On Jan. 1, the KROHNE Group welcomed a new chairman of the advisory board and a changed executive board. After almost 40 years as chairman of the advisory board, Prof. Dr. Rolf Theenhaus has retired, and Michael RademacherDubbick, who has led the company for 25 years as managing shareholder, was appointed the new chairman. Dr. Attila Biligic is now the CEO and speaker of the KROHNE Group’s executive board. He has been a board member since 2017 and chief technical officer since 2019. In addition, Stephan Neuburger will oversee growth in new business areas as chief business development officer. He has served on the management board since 1999. Chief financial Officer Ingo Wald and Chief Sales Officer Ansgar Hoffman have been appointed to the executive board. Headquartered in Duisburg, Germany, KROHNE is a global manufacturer and provider of process instrumentation, measurement solutions and services. In January, supply chain leader QCS Purchasing named Ken Klug as its new president and CEO. In his new role, Klug will oversee all operations for QCS Purchasing, a nonprofit, member-owned cooperative that provides supply-chain solutions to the food and beverage industry. In January, Ronnybrook Farm Dairy was recognized for producing the No. 1 chocolate milk in New York state in a review posted to YouTube by afoolzerrand.com. The reviewer touted Ronnybrook’s Creamline Chocolate Milk as “phenomenal,” as well as “creamy, chocolatey, salty, malty…It’s everything you want.” To watch the video, go to https://youtu.be/kFRAIqwrOwI. Schenck Process has announced its new hygienic bag dump station for manually emptying bulk solid materials. It is loaded with features that are important to manufacturers in sanitary processing environments and is offered in both filtered and non-filtered styles. All models include interior and exterior finishes to meet 3-A sanitary requirements, ferrules mounted for use with clean-in-place systems; large openings that enable a sanitary method for internal CIP cleaning; removable internal bag rest, all stainless steel diaphragm bodies, 304 stainless steel bag cages; 16 ounce singed polyester, side removal bags that meet 3-A requirements; flanged exhaust, 7 gauge stainless steel housing and hopper and hinged doors with gas springs. The hygienic bag dump stations will be manufactured in the new Schenck Process Whitewater, Wisconsin, dedicated stainless steel production plant. Stewart’s Shops’ Holiday Match program raised more than $1.79 million for local children’s organizations. From last Thanksgiving through Christmas, customers donated more than $895,000 to the program, which was matched penny-for-penny by Stewart’s – a 5% increase from 2018. One hundred percent of the funds raised at Stewart’s 336 shops were given to local nonprofit children’s organizations.

In January, Stewart’s Shops President Gary Dake got behind the register at two locations to personally thank customers and shop partners for their support in this successful fundraising effort. Dake visited the shop at 225 Ballard Rd., Gansevoort, New York, which was one of the top collection shops with $6,307 raised, as well as the shop at 777 Quaker Rd., Queensbury, New York, which was one of the highest growth shops with an increase of 67.6% over the previous year. The Holiday Match program has been in place since 1986. A listing of all charities that received funding is available at www.stewartsshops.com.