History
Clover Stornetta Inc. was formed from two separate companies which joined together. These two companies were the Petaluma Cooperative Creamery which distributed Clover Brand dairy products and Stornetta's Dairy.
The Petaluma Cooperative Creamery began distributing Clover Brand dairy products to homes and stores in the city of Petaluma in the early 1900s. Eventually the company started to expand and sell their products in Sonoma County and the neighboring Marin County. Both counties grew rapidly. Eventually the Clover brand products were being sold to almost every grocery store and home in the North Bay.
In 1975, the largest fire in Petaluma history occurred, causing some destruction to the dairy Co-op, destroying the processing and bottling operations along with the cooler.
In August 1977 the owners of Clover Stornetta bought the wholesale distribution from the Co-op after deciding not to rebuild their co-op facility. Clover Stornetta also bought the Stornetta’s Dairy in the city of Sonoma. The owners of the Clover Stornetta decided to move their company back to the original city of location and moved the whole distribution back to Petaluma in 1984. In June 1991, Clover Stornetta opened a brand new state-of-the-art milk processing facility in their current Petaluma business location. The Stornetta Dairy in Sonoma was Clover’s only bottling plant at the time. The equipment was antiquated and a large amount of the work had to be done manually. With the new automated plant run with computerized controls, Clover became able to do three times the volume of the former plant with the same amount of manpower.
Clover Stornetta introduced their North Coast Excellence program in 1995; a full third party certification was later added in 1999. North Coast Excellence Certified guarantees that all of the milk produced at the company’s plant came from only the best milk producers in the North Coast region and is produced by cows that are not treated with rBST (Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone). The milk is extensively tested at each processing stage in their on-site lab.
They currently have farms located in Sonoma County, Marin County, and Mendocino County, California.
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