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Cream Co. Bet the Farm on the Messy Middle - and Built a Meat Business Chefs Could Trust
Cliff Pollard started with ten cattle, borrowed coolers and no delivery truck. A decade later, Cream Co. is testing whether the least glamorous link in sustainable food - processing and distribution - can become its strongest advantage.
The $24 Billion Milk Machine Owned by 9,000 Farmers
Dairy Farmers of America is easy to mistake for a brand. It is really a farmer-owned supply chain - collecting milk, finding a market for it, turning it into everything from cheese powder to chocolate milk, and sending the value back toward the farm.
Perry's Ice Cream
The century-old New York brand is really three businesses in one: a hometown ice-cream label, a cold-chain network and a contract manufacturer built to make other companies look good.
US Foods
The trucks are the boring part. The second-largest food distributor in America is really a menu consultant, a private-label factory and a fintech-for-restaurants wearing a delivery company's coat.
Glife Technologies Pte Ltd
Glife Technologies is a Singapore-based B2B food and agri-tech company that digitizes the food supply chain across Southeast Asia. It connects farmers and suppliers directly with restaurants, hotels, caterers and retailers through an app-based sourcing marketplace, its own cold-chain distribution network, and an in-house ERP platform called GlifeWare. By cutting out layers of middlemen and aggregating demand, Glife aims to lower costs for buyers, give farmers reliable access to end-buyers, and improve food safety and food security in the region.
Grip
Grip is a Miami-based cold-chain fulfillment and logistics company that helps direct-to-consumer brands ship frozen and refrigerated goods without them arriving as soup. Founded by former ButcherBox logistics leaders, its software picks carriers, packaging, and refrigerant levels in real time based on weather and network conditions, and its warehouses across six states handle the physical fulfillment. The company says it has shipped more than two billion dollars of perishable goods on time for brands like HelloFresh, ButcherBox, and Open Farm.