Smith Dairy Products Company

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About
Name
  • Smith Merchant Wholesalers - Durable Goods Company
Wholesale
  • Merchant Wholesalers - Durable Goods
Manufacturing
  • Food Manufacturing
Facts
Founded
  • 1909
    Orrville,Ohio
Related
Key Persons
Founders
Location
    • 230 N. Vine St., Orrville, 44667, Ohio, United States
    • 1381 Dairy Ln, Orrville, 44667, Ohio, United States

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Quick Facts

  • 1908 - Peter Schmid & John Jacob Schmid, purchased City Dairy in Orrville from Cyrus Walter, "receiving a two horses, two wagons, some milk bottles and cans, and a hand (operated) ice cream freezer." [2]
  • 1909 - January 1, opened "Dairy"
  • 1915 - Dairy purchases "new" delivery wagons.
  • 1919 - Smith Dairy established at 129 N. Vine St., Orrville, Ohio. The phone number was 125.
  • 1924 - Plant constructed at 230 N. Vine St., Orrville, Ohio, fifth location since 1909
  • 1930 - Smith Dairy is incorporated.
  • 1933 - Retail price of milk is 7 cents per quart.
  • 1935 - Purchases Wadsworth Pure Milk Company in Wadsworth, Ohio.
  • 1938 - First gas-electric delivery truck used.
  • 1943 - Smith Dairy Discontinues pop operations started in 1935.
  • 1945 - Square glass bottles introduced.
  • 1947 - Smith Dairy joins Quality Checkd, Cottage cheese plastic packaging introduced. Begins making Smith's brand novelties.
  • 1950 - Purchases Rittman Dairy, Rittman, Ohio.
  • 1951 - First Christmas banquet held for employees and spouses.
  • 1954 - First tractor-trailer truck purchased.
  • 1856 - Half-gallon paper filler purchased.
  • 1957 - Smith Dairy begins receiving bulk milk.
  • 1958 - Wooster, Ohio Sesquicentennial Celebration, June 14-21, 1958, p. 102.
  • 1959 - Smith Dairy celebrates 50 years.
  • 1960 - Purchases Wooster Farm Dairy. Bulk milk receiving room is added.
  • 1961 - Quart machine converted to plastic cartons.
  • 1963 - New ice cream addition constructed.
  • 1968 - Quick Chek Foods convenience stores incorporated.
  • 1969 - Purchases Isaly Dairy in Mansfield, Ohio and Marion, Ohio.
  • 1971 - Smith Dairy wins Quality Chekd marketing award. Bottling milk in half-gallon glass bottles discontinued.
  • 1972 - Smith Dairy stops using glass milk bottles and begins blow molding milk jugs.
  • 1977 - Purchases Bauer Dairy, Elyria, Ohio and Parson's Dairy, Oberlin, Ohio, Walter Schmid named president, Steve Schmid begins his career at Smith Dairy.
  • 1979 - Smith Dairy wins Quality Chekd Weber Award for overall quality.
  • 1980 - Smith Dairy wins Quality Chekd Weber Award for second consecutive year.
  • 1983 - New HTST pasteurizing system installed and results in increased speed and efficiency.
  • 1985 - Smith Dairy wins Quality Chekd Weber Award.
  • 1986 - Steve Schmid named president.
  • 1987 - Foil seal on plastic bottles introduced; plastic half gallons introduced; new Bossie delivery system implemented.
  • 1988 - Working agreement with Ruggles Ice Cream begins.
  • 1989 - New ice cream plant open in Orrville; Smith Dairy enters the Guinness Book of World Records for producing largest milkshake at 1,891 gallons. Ruggles frozen yogurt introduced.
  • 1992 - Smith Dairy moves into new corporate offices and distribution center on Dairy Lane, Orrville, Ohio.
  • 1993 - Smith Dairy wins Quality Chekd Zimmerman Award for excellence in marketing.
  • 1994 - Smith Dairy wins Quality Chekd Weber Award; acquires Wayne Dairy, a UHT plant in Richmond, Indiana.
  • 1995 - Smith Dairy wins Quality Chekd Zimmerman Award for marketing.
  • 1996 - Smith Dairy wins Quality Chekd Weber Award.
  • 1998 - Introduces the first UHT plastic bottles in the U.S. (Santa & Mrs. Claus eggnog); Moovers brand single-serve milk launched.
  • 1999 - Smith's brand introduces milk in yellow Super Jug gallons and half-gallons.
  • 2000 - Smith Dairy wins Quality Chekd Weber Award; begins using stretch-sleeve labels on gallons.
  • 2002 - Acquires Goshen Dairy in New Philadelphia, Ohio.
  • 2003 - Ruggles brand introduces new two-piece scround container; bottled water production begins.
  • 2004 - Branch facility opens in New Philadelphia, Ohio.
  • 2005 - 34,000 square-foot cooler expansion to Dariy Lane distribution center is completed wit state-of-the-art logistics systems.
  • 2006 - Milk supply becomes 100% free of artificial growth hormones (rBST).
  • 2008 - Plants are certified organic for milk and ice cream.
  • 2009 - Celebrates 100 year of dairy processing.

Slogans

  • "Milk Flows As a River of Health Through the Sparkling Smith Dairy Plant"
  • "Premium dairy products since 1909"

Further reading

  • "Our First Century" edited by Susan Darby, designed by Susan Breen, Smith Merchant Wholesalers - Durable Goods Company, 2009.
  1. ↑ "Our First Century" edited by Susan Darby, designed by Susan Breen, Smith Merchant Wholesalers - Durable Goods Company, 2009, p. 60-61.
  2. ↑ "Our First Century" edited by Susan Darby, designed by Susan Breen, Smith Merchant Wholesalers - Durable Goods Company, 2009, p. 9.
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