The Lando Lakes Cooperative: The Challenge of Feeding the World Population

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Lando Lakes is a Fortune 500 company with annual sales that hover around $14 billion. It was founded in the 1920s by upper Midwest dairy farmers who were trying to get their sweet cream butter into the population centers in the East. A hundred years later, this is still more or less how Lando Lakes Cooperative works on a much, much larger scale.

Too often, companies only focus on the type of scale that’s visible: massive campuses, thousands of workers, offices around the globe. But as Land O’Lakes proves, there are less conspicuous ways to scale – ways that supply your business with structural integrity. This is something CEO Beth Ford knows well. She’s strategically scaled Land O’Lakes – often beneath the surface of what the average consumer sees. As she puts it: “We have to treat our business like the ecosystem it is." Cameo appearances by: Tim Maltin (Titanic expert) and Lukas Fricke (farmer).

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