{{Short description|North Dakotan creamery}} {{Infobox company | name = Cass-Clay Creamery | logo = Cass-Clay Creamery Logo.png | image = | image_caption = | type = Subsidiary | genre = | founded = {{start date and age|1934}}<br>Moorhead, Minnesota, U.S. | founder = | area_served = Midwestern United States | industry = Food | products = Dairy | services = | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | assets = | equity = | owner = | parent = Kemps | divisions = | hq_location_city = Fargo, North Dakota | hq_location_country = U.S. | key_people = | num_employees = | website = {{URL|https://cassclay.com/}} }}
'''Cass-Clay Creamery''' is a creamery headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota.<ref name="Dairy and Ice Cream Field 1972">{{cite book | title=Dairy and Ice Cream Field | issue=v. 155, nos. 7-12 | year=1972 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tiEJAQAAMAAJ | access-date=December 9, 2017 | page=111}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=The Northwest | publisher=Department of Agricultural Development, Northern Pacific Railway Company | issue=v. 37-43 | year=1963 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vDYOAQAAIAAJ | access-date=December 9, 2017 | page=574}}</ref> It was founded in 1934 in neighboring Moorhead, Minnesota.<ref name="Manufactured Milk Products Journal 1957">{{cite book | title=Manufactured Milk Products Journal | publisher=Miller Publishing Company | issue=v. 48 | year=1957 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o6hOAAAAYAAJ | access-date=December 9, 2017 | page=17}}</ref> Its present-day headquarters are at 200 20th St North in Fargo. It manufactures dairy products such as milk, cream, butter, sour cream, cottage cheese, yogurt and ice cream.<ref name="Manufactured Milk Products Journal 1957"/><ref name="Hagen 2017">{{cite web | last=Hagen | first=C.S. | title=Milk war worries | website=High Plains Reader, Fargo ND | date=October 1, 2017 | url=http://hpr1.com/index.php/feature/news/milk-war-worries | access-date=December 9, 2017}}</ref> It also manufactured dips and juices.
==History==
In 1935 Cass-Clay Cooperative Creamery opened its first plant in Moorhead Minnesota<ref name="Manufactured Milk Products Journal 1957"/><ref name="Association Association 1946">{{cite book | last1=Association | first1=National Farm Loan | last2=Association | first2=Production Credit | title=Farm Credit Messenger | publisher=Federal Land Bank of Saint Paul | issue=v. 21-38 | year=1946 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZpqkOojS2QUC |access-date=December 9, 2017 | page=64}}</ref>
It is named for the neighboring counties of Cass, in North Dakota, and Clay, in Minnesota.
In 2007 it was acquired by Associated Milk Producers Inc.<ref name="Plunkett 2009 p. 196">{{cite book | last=Plunkett | first=J.W. | title=Plunkett's Food Industry Almanac 2009: The Only Comprehensive Guide to Food Companies and Trends | publisher=Plunkett Research Limited | year=2009 | isbn=978-1-59392-131-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qvZTlPn2j-4C&pg=PT196 | access-date=December 9, 2017 | page=196}}</ref> and in 2012 it was purchased by Kemps LLC<ref name="CBS Minnesota 2012">{{cite web | title=Kemps Buys Cass-Clay Creamery Operation In Fargo | publisher=CBS Minnesota | date=March 14, 2012 | url=http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/03/14/kemps-buys-cass-clay-creamery-operation-in-fargo/ | access-date=December 9, 2017}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website}}
Category:Dairy farming Category:Drink companies of the United States Category:Companies based in Fargo–Moorhead Category:1934 establishments in Minnesota Category:Dairy products companies of the United States Category:Food and drink companies based in North Dakota Category:Manufacturing companies based in North Dakota Category:American brands
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