Lifeway Foods, a dairy products company headquartered in Morton Grove, and with business operations in Niles and Skokie, is continuing its growth this year with an expansion into Canada, a rollout of national advertising, new product introductions and frozen kefir products geared to summertime palates.
The company, known for a cultured dairy product called kefir, is also gearing up for the opening of a milk-production plant it acquired last year.
Julie Smolyansky, the company’s CEO, sees continued growth for Lifeway, which has 92 percent of U.S. market share for kefir. Lifeway saw a 16 percent increase in total consolidated gross sales (to $89.9 million) in 2012, and a 21 percent increase (to $109 million) in 2013.
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