Bankrupt Dean Dairy (Garelick's parent) closed the Lynn plant (ex West Lynn Creamery) causing significant distribution problems, which I think they have mostly recovered from - Franklin basically only made 1/2 gal & gal of milk, so they had to haul "specialty" products from places like NJ. The bankruptcy sale to FFA seems to be done. In MA they own Garelick (25-100) and Friendly's Ice Cream in Wilbraham(25-26) (but not the restaurants and only leasing the Ice Cream factory).
http://www.deanfoods.com/newsroom/news/ ... f-america/The Company also announced that as part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) approval of Dean Foods’ transaction with DFA, DFA has entered into a Consent Decree with the DOJ under which DFA has committed to hold separate and ultimately divest the dairy processing plants located in DePere, WI, Franklin, MA and Harvard, IL together with certain assets related to the operations at each plant.
So the Garelick plant in Franklin (25-100) which holds most of the supermarket contracts in MA will be sold.
Guida and Oakhurst (including 33-08) are already owned by DFA, so they won't be allowed to take over Franklin. The other two companies in the area are Hood and Agrimark (which also owns Cabot and McAdam), so I assume one of them will end up owning the Franklin plant. In any case Franklin bottles a lot of milk so I assume that will continue.