In 2001, Groupe Danone, a French food product company whose brands include Evian bottled water and Danone/Dannon yogurt, purchased an initial 40% of Stonyfield shares.
Its milk comes from New England and Midwest dairy farmers through the CROPP (Organic Valley) cooperative.
[3] In June 2007, Stonyfield Farm launched its first brand in the UK, Stony, Yogurt on a Mission, though the line has since been discontinued.
[5] Emails leaked by WikiLeaks revealed that Stonyfield chairman Gary Hirshberg lobbied John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, to have Hillary Clinton deliver a strong message in support of mandatory labeling of genetically modified food.
[7] In January 2018, Stonyfield launched an anti-GMO campaign featuring children reading scripted messages of questionable validity.