Homdy's Story

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It took a year and a half to get the plant running. Initially, homdi could only afford to hire five of the 55 strong work force for this new company. The community didn't see him that way either. They were just head up and doing their best part to close this factory. And i'm looking at himin perspective and saying what would they do if you opened it?

Your local community can be the power behind an epic scale story — because smart community investment always maximizes returns. No one knows this like Hamdi Ulukaya, the founder and CEO of Chobani. He turned a small Upstate New York town into an epicenter of Greek yogurt by mobilizing a community to revive a mothballed dairy plant. In creating opportunities for new jobs, he created opportunities for massive scale. This story repeats over and over as the company grows, building communities with a sense of co-ownership. “This is not really a Hamdi story,” Ulukaya says. “This is a story about the people in our communities, what they're made of, and the values and capability that they have.”

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