Danone

“Earlier this year, Danone sold Stonyfield to another company called Lactalis, one of the biggest dairy companies in the world. And the amount Lactalis paid for Stonyfield? Eight hundred and seventy-five million dollars”

“98 we're at seventy-eight million in sales. 99, we're at a hundred million in sales and that's when I began negotiating with Danone to have them come in.”

“By the way, back in 2017, the same year we first spoke to him, Danone sold Stonyfield to another company called Lactalis, one of the biggest dairy companies in the world. And the amount Lactalis paid for Stonyfield? Eight hundred and seventy five million dolla…”

“The original head of M&A who came to see me said Gary, do you mean to tell me we're going to buy 80% of your company and you'll still be in control? And I said, yes. And the banker and the lawyers and everyone laughed. And, you know, two years later, that's th…”

“Happy has been a B Corp for many, many years, and Danone recently became, you know, the largest publicly traded B Corp in the world, and I feel like Happy has been an inspiration in that process, and that's a way to make systemic change.”

“We might have gotten crushed in everything we worked so hard to build around that initial mission of actually changing the way children are fed. All of that could have been jeopardized.”