Dean's private label dairy products shifted. (Industry Issues).

Dean Foods Co. has transferred all of the company's private label dairy products and all dairy manufacturing assets to the Dean Dairy Group, in a group of changes designed to enhance the company's branded strategy and increase manufacturing efficiencies.

Central to the changes is the creation of the Dean Branded Products Group, responsible for marketing and selling Dean's nationally branded products. Over the balance of 2003, responsibility for manufacturing, selling and distributing Morningstar Foods' portfolio of private label, long shelf-life dairy products will be shifted to the company's Dairy Group. Morningstar Foods will be renamed Dean Branded Products Group, …