Reed’s Dairy

Reed’s Dairy

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Reed’s Dairy in Idaho Falls has been very successful with a unique business model for a dairy. They produce and market a very successful brand of ice cream as well as some unique cheeses. Owner, Alan Reed, decided to take another step. "You purchased the Boise milk company? Andrew Stolworthy, who was the previous owner, actually came to us.He wanted to know if we would bottle milk for them because he wanted to start a milk delivery business in Boise and so we did. We packaged milk for him for quite a few years and he built this milk delivery business in the Treasure Valley and then he just decided he wanted to do something else. He offered it to us to purchase and we worked out the deal. We didn’t buy the milk processing plant that he had because we didn’t need it. We did buy the milk delivery business. Do you have the old-fashioned dairy trucks that went around and delivered milk to people? The old dairy trucks and used to be called Divco was the manufacturer that made those original milk trucks, we don't have those, we have a step van that we fixed the inside of it up so that it works for milk delivery similar to the old ones and that is what we use. Is there a big demand to get milk and cheese delivered to their door? We feel that there is. We've been doing door to door milk delivery here in Idaho Falls for a number of years.
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