World’s top 20 dairy companies

According to latest yearly survey of Rabobank, world’s biggest dairy companies highlight the huge of one of the world’s most important food sectors. In the latest survey, the largest dairy companies names Swiss major Nestle is the top dairy company in the world with turnover of $27.8 billion and second top company is French Lactalis with turnover of $19.5 billion, 3^rd is Danone with turnover of $19.5 billion, although New Zealand’s Fonterra is on 4^th with turnover of $18.5 billion in 2014.

The Rabobank record is overlook by European dairies with the top 20. France alone has 3rd-Danone, Lactalis, Savencia, Sodiaal. The United State is also big market with fifth top dairies-DFA, Kraft Foods, Schreiber Foods, Dean Foods, Land O’ Lakes-making it into the record. In evaluation, Indian dairy companies are small. Parag Milk Foods is a Maharashtra-based dairy farm, which had turnover of 1,400 crore in 2014-2015. According to the International Farm Comparison Network, It has published a list of top 20 worldwide dairies based on their milk ingestion in 2013. The Amul is biggest company that ranked 15^th with 0.6 per cent share of worldwide milk production.

According to RS Sodhi who is managing director of the GCMMF (Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation), most of the milk producing nations in the globe were dominated by supportive players, be it New Zealand, the United State and Australia. There is difference with India, which is the foreign cooperative limit themselves to milk processing and milk procurement. They sell milk in volume to confidential firms for value added milk products.

Position	Company	Country
1.	Nestlé	Switzerland
2.	Lactalis	France
3.	Danone	France
4.	Fonterra	New Zealand
5.	Dairy Farmers of America	USA
6.	FrieslandCampina	Netherlands
7.	Arla Foods	Denmark/Sweden
8.	Saputo	Canada
9.	Dean Foods	USA
10.	Yili	China
11.	Mengniu	China
12.	Unilever	Netherlands/UK
13.	Sodiaal	France
14.	DMK	Germany
15.	Savencia (formerly Bongrain)	France
16.	Kraft Foods	USA
17.	Meiji	Japan
18.	Schreiber Foods	USA
19.	Land O’Lakes	USA
20.	Muller	Germany

Source: Rabobank