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| DAIRY MANAGEMENT, INC.'S ACTIVITIES FOR 2012 | FORM 990, PART III | When the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board (NDB) was formed in 1983, its mission was to increase demand for U.S. dairy products on behalf of U.S. dairy farmers. This farmer-led and farmer-funded initiative shared a mission with another farmer led and farmer-funded initiative, the United Dairy Industry Association (UDIA), created in 1971 to unite several local dairy promotion entities. Through their efforts, per capita dairy consumption has increased more than 14% since 1983. As non-profit entities, these organizations are grassroots created and grassroots led with a single, unified mission. In 1995, the dairy farmer leadership realized that they could have a bigger impact on dairy demand if the NDB and UDIA combined efforts so they created Dairy Management Inc. (DMI). By combining forces, farmer-funded promotion programs have maximized the impact of their promotions dollars through a coordinated and unified marketing plan that use national and local resources in an efficient and effective manner. In 2012, dairy importers were represented through a 7.5-cents-per-hundred weight investment. Dairy Management Inc. DMI is a non-profit management organization that leads the farmer-funded dairy promotion programs nationwide. DMI manages national and local organizations and ensures that the principle of grassroots created, grassroots led, remains the cornerstone of the company. DMI manages: -American Dairy Association -National Dairy Council -Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy -U.S. Dairy Export Council -Dairy Research Institute The mission of DMI is to increase sales and demand of U.S. dairy products on behalf of U.S. dairy producers and importers. The DMI board is comprised of dairy producers and dairy importer representatives from around the country who authorize the activities of the unified marketing plan. Funding for the plan comes from a 15 cent per hundredweight assessment for farmers and 7.5 cents per hundredweight from dairy importers. Governance of DMI is structured to maximize national and local representation on behalf of the nation's dairy producers and importers. Competitive Talent DMI staff comes from a variety of backgrounds including a high percentage from for-profit consumer product goods companies (CPGs), advertising and public relations agencies and marketing firms. DMI retains staff that can effectively and efficiently work with a number of business partners which include Domino's Pizza, McDonald's, Kraft Foods, Deans Foods, LALA, HP Hood and Leprino Foods. The talent pool DMI recruits from are typically for-profit companies as described above. CPGs and agencies have a competitive advantage as they can offer stock options and other compensation benefits to their recruits. Despite that, DMI recruits and retains high performing talent because of the culture and opportunities that exist and because of the success that DMI has had in working with the industry to increase dairy sales. DMI offers a strong professional growth and development program and offers competitive compensation and benefits wherever possible. |
| Unmet Demand | DMI and its affiliate organizations are focused on increasing dairy sales by meeting unmet demand. Unmet demand is the difference between existing sales and potential sales and can be captured by offering the products consumers want, when and where they want them. Unmet demand exists in many areas: Fluid Milk Fluid milk consumption has dropped at a rate that has many in the industry alarmed. Concern about fluid milk is indeed warranted, but not just because of recent sales declines. Fluid milk sales have been in a crisis for decades. Short-term efforts to address this decline have been focused on stimulating processor innovation projects in the market to drive sales. Farmer investment, approved last year by the DMI Board has helped to accelerate new product introduction, extend reach and magnify processor investments in fluid milk. As a reminder, DMI co-invested $9 million in eight short-term projects. Processors' combined investment was $81 million. To-date, five short-term projects have been completed representing approximately $5.5 million from the initial scope: 1. In the lactose-free segment, $5 million has been invested to address the needs of these consumers. The majority of this investment ($4 million) has been spent on overall category efforts including health professional and trusted sources outreach and social media promotion. The remaining $1 million supported HP Hood, the lactose-free category leader in new product innovation and marketing. 2. Darigold's shrink-wrapped 18-pack, single-serve refuel beverage was distributed seasonally with Walmart and is being supported with grassroots promotions at athletic events like Ironman. The minimal investment of $3,000 in packaging has enabled flexible distribution in bulk at club stores and individuals at focused events. 3. Shamrock's aseptic refuel muscle recovery milk for health stores has seen success. While all sales are incremental given that this is a new channel of distribution for milk, there have been some challenges around consistency in distribution and shelving and lack of formalized sales tracking. Significant expansion to corporate GNC stores and promotion and sampling events reaching over 67,000 people are driving further growth supported by $200,000 in checkoff funding. 4. Shamrock's second channel development project has expanded distribution to 7-Eleven convenience stores to provide yet another point of availability of dairy for consumers. The $200,000 dairy farmer investment has supported this roll out. 5. Kemps' $100,000 breakfast beverage concept development is completed identifying 2-3 high performing, consumer-tested products. The next step is commercialization by Kemps. In addition to partner-specific projects, there has been other activity in the fluid milk category across the checkoff's diverse partners. -Quaker, in its first year of partnership with the dairy checkoff, unveiled the "Make It With Milk" program in approximately 1,350 Safeway grocery stores in April. The program's goal was to encourage consumers to make their oatmeal with nutrient-rich milk instead of water and resulted in a 5-percent increase in fluid milk sales in retail stores participating during the test period. In the future, we will monitor long-term behavior change, expand to more retailers for sustained effort and further support the efforts with a print campaign and social media. -McDonald's is featuring milk in its promotion of Happy Meals surrounding its "Despicable Me 2" movie promotion, one of the biggest kids' movies of the summer. The ads highlights the 'goodness' and nutrition of milk -A checkoff partner, Tetrapak, has supported the introduction of a ready-to-drink Starbuck's coffee beverage at retail increasing the number of consumer choices including fluid milk as an ingredient and the points of availability of fluid milk options in the grocery store. -Within the Fuel Up to Play 60 program, 15 of 78 dairy optimization projects with processors are specific to fluid milk with a percent of retail sales going back to support milk consumption in schools. In the longer-term, fundamental change in how we handle, price and market the product is needed. Beyond price, there are numerous other factors negatively impacting sales. These include packaging, innovation, availability, even the aging plant infrastructure of the processing end of the industry. By engaging others across the supply chain, the goal of these efforts is to create an industry-wide approach to identifying a blueprint for the future milk industry from cow to plant to consumer, the transition plan to get there - and a willingness by the dairy industry to do it. To date, we've taken a disciplined and inclusive approach to better understand these fundamental barriers, and to identify those partners most willing and able to take risk, invest and drive innovation into the fluid milk category. Over the next few months, we will develop three-year proposals with a handful of players (processors, retailers, suppliers, others) to bring a pipeline of new milk and milk-based beverages into the market. By putting a stake in the ground with these partner leaders, focusing our shared investment in new plant infrastructure and new product innovation-we will begin the long process of rejuvenating the industry, bringing margin back to the category, and inspiring consumers to fully and freely enjoy a wide array of fluid milk beverage options. | |
| The nation's largest restaurant chain, McDonald's, continues to be a | "dairy destination" for millions of Americans as part of a multi-year partnership with DMI. -McCafe specialty coffees contain up to 80% milk and have been available nationwide for more than three years. These products alone use an additional million 300 pounds of milk annually. The line continues to be updated with new varieties and flavors and continues to represent a true growth opportunity for dairy. Other major QSR chains such as Burger King have added specialty coffee lines as a result of McDonald's success. -Frappes, consisting of approximately 50 percent milk, are in all of McDonald's 14,000 restaurants. The products use an additional 100 million pounds of milk annually. New varieties such as Chocolate Chip are added to the line every year to keep it exciting for consumers. -Real Fruit Smoothies, launched nationwide in July 2010 and use low-fat yogurt. The smoothies will require an additional 23 million pounds of milk annually. New flavors are added each year to keep the line exciting including Chocolate Chip which was added in 2012. -Fat Free Chocolate Milk rolled out nationally in March, 2012 as the beverage of choice in the new nutritionally improved Happy Meals. More kids are now choosing milk as their beverage with their Happy Meals. Chocolate Milk is now the featured beverage for Happy Meals in all national promotions and advertising. -There are more exciting new products yet to come. The chain has welcomed four DMI employees to work onsite full-time at McDonald's Menu Development Center in Oak Brook, Illinois, in addition to the support of a Registered Dietician who spends 50% of her time at McDonald's. These employees, who have an extensive dairy food science background, work side-by-side with the McDonald's team every day on a wide range of dairy-friendly beverages, sandwiches and dessert ideas which will help grow dairy sales over the next few years. Many new menu items where dairy is a key ingredient are in various stages of development, with our onsite team leading the projects. All these efforts are meeting unmet consumer demand. Cheese Per capita consumption of cheese steadily rose in the 80's, 90's and early 2000's. In the mid-late 2000's, consumption was flat and, in one area, down: pizza cheese. About 25% of all cheese used in the U.S. is served on pizza. Dairy producers worked with leading pizza chains in the late 2000's to help revitalize this category, reverse the trend and grow cheese sales. Results have been very positive; domestic disappearance of Other Than American Cheese in 2012 increased 2%, or 1.3 billion pounds of milk, as compared to 2011 (per USDA ERS). This results in three consecutive years of growth since 2010. Dairy producers continue to invest in the category, with Domino's Pizza, to ensure that the positive trend continues and that the category leaders continue to innovate and promote cheese-centric menu items. -In 2012, Domino's continued their successful Monday - Wednesday Carryout Special and offered it all year. They also saw success in a new type of traffic-generating offer that leveraged their rapidly expanding digital platform: 50% off pizzas ordered online for one week time frame. This was tested regionally mid-2012 and deemed successful enough to promote on national TV. Papa John's quickly responded with identical offers throughout the country, and Pizza Hut responded with aggressive pricing promotions. In October 2012, Domino's launched their Handmade PAN Pizza; after spending three years on its development. These pizzas contain up to 40% more cheese than a one-topping pizza. Similar to other new, cheese-centric items, PAN sales far exceeded Domino's expectations, even when it was not advertised on national TV. We saw a catalytic effect as Pizza Hut introduced their Limited Time Offer Crazy Cheesy Crust Pizza and Little Caesar's responded with their new Deep Dish Pizza. -Dairy producers are now into their fourth year of collaboration with Domino's in the area of school lunch. The Domino's Smart Slice line of eight pizzas are now in over 400 school districts in 37 states, throughout the country. All pizzas were formulated to meet the new USDA school meal requirements, which were implemented in the fall of 2012. Domino's recently introduced the latest varieties at the School Nutrition Association Annual National Conference in July: Hawaiian Hot Lava and West Coast Veggie, both modified versions of American Legends pizzas. We continue to see the catalytic effect in this channel; frozen pizza manufacturers are innovating with new pizzas, crusts and toppings. Additionally, Pizza Hut is now in the marketplace with a line of fresh-delivered school lunch pizzas. When it comes to school, pizza remains the number one entre. DMI is working with the pizza category leaders to reformulate their school pizza to meet tighter nutrition standards. Ensuring pizza is seen as a nutrient-rich food is essential as over 25% of all school meals include pizza. Cheeseburgers represent about 5% of all cheese use and DMI works with McDonald's and others on cheese focused menu items. DMI is working closely with McDonald's to develop new cheese varieties which will be used on a wide array of burgers, chicken and breakfast sandwiches that rolled out in 2012 and throughout 2013. In addition, our onsite scientists are leading development efforts for a natural cheese initiative which will lead to over 50% of cheese in McDonald's system being natural by 2017. This meets a consumer demand for more natural, unprocessed foods. Natural cheese also has 50% less sodium than processed, which is an important initiative for McDonald's. Natural Cheese utilizes approximately 20% more milk per pound compared to processed cheese, so the transition will lead to a significant increase in incremental pounds of milk utilized. Yogurt The yogurt category continues to post impressive growth - 5-8% in the key grocery channels between 2011 and 2013 -- thanks to new product introductions including premium-priced, twice-the-milk-utilization Greek style yogurt that addresses unmet consumer demand. Through its science, consumer insights like the Innovation Center's "Future of Dairy" project, and industry outreach, DMI has assisted industry with product development and uncovering new consumer insights, trends, and opportunities that have assisted in fueling this growth. In addition, with the assistance of DMI, yogurt is a mainstay menu item at quick serve restaurants; where just five years ago very few offered this product. Greek yogurt is also now being offered in some school districts. This is further evidence that DMI, through partnerships with industry, works to extend the places and times of day that yogurt is offered. | |
| Global Markets | In 1995, when dairy farmers created DMI, they also saw the potential for dairy sales internationally and founded the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC), a non-profit, independent, membership organization that represents the export trade interests of U.S. farmers, processors and manufacturers. With over 100 member companies, USDEC works to enhance U.S. global competitiveness and assist the industry to increase global dairy ingredient sales and exports of U.S. dairy products. The organization accomplishes these goals through market development programs that seek to build overseas demand, resolve market access barriers and advance industry trade policy goals. Dairy exports have steadily grown in the past 18 years and now a growing and significant proportion of the U.S. milk supply is sold overseas: In 2012, 13.2 percent of total milk solids production was exported, slightly down from 13.3 percent in 2011. Such export expansion has been due in part to USDEC programming that provides professional export marketing support from its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, and international representation in Mexico, South America, Europe, Middle East, Southeast Asia, China, Korea and Japan. For more information on USDEC, visit their web site www.usdec.org. Ingredients A few decades ago, whey was a by-product of cheese making that was spread on fields to fertilize crops. Today, it is a highly sought-after protein source, used around the globe in everything from energy bars to smoothies. Dairy farmers and importers, through the checkoff program, support Dairy Research Centers at universities across the nation. These centers conduct nutrition and product research and work together with USDEC's Global Marketing Program to promote new uses for dairy ingredients. The outreach includes working with more than 20 companies on an annual basis to support development for consumer relevant products that include dairy ingredients. These products provide an important sales opportunity, utilizing billions of pounds of milk each year. And, by doing so, the dairy checkoff has played an important role in supporting the phenomenal growth in value-added whey ingredient production, assisting in doubling the market between 2004 and 2012. Steady growth has continued over the past five years with these high value whey proteins increasing by 53.2% or 93 million pounds. Sustainability For centuries, dairy families and businesses have had a proud legacy of providing nutrient-rich products that promote good health and well-being throughout all stages of life. Dairy farmers' responsibility for the earth and a passion for consumer satisfaction come naturally. Today, there is growing consumer demand for healthy, environmentally sustainable products. In fact, research has indicated that consumers, including frequent milk users, are becoming more concerned with their personal impact on the environment. The general population is changing how and what they buy, and how they dispose of products in order to lead a more environmentally friendly lifestyle. Research shows that if consumers believe dairy is not only nutritious, good-tasting, and delivered at a good value, but also environmentally-friendly, then their consumption could increase. Through the U.S. Dairy Sustainability Commitment, established by dairy farmers in 2007, organizations at every step in our supply chain - from dairy farms to processors to the local grocer - have made an unprecedented commitment to work together to build on our legacy and identify and deploy sustainability innovations that make good business sense. The industry wide commitment to sustainability is designed to move innovation forward and to forge a more sustainable and profitable U.S. dairy industry. DMI staff has facilitated accomplishments including: -Developing key strategic partnerships with governmental and nongovernmental organizations. -Engaging more than 700 stakeholders who invested approximately 4,300 working days supporting sustainability projects throughout 2012. -Publishing research and developing science-based tools to establish baseline measures of dairy's environmental impact, from which we can track and communicate progress. Success through Partnerships DMI's impact on dairy sales in the U.S. and abroad is amplified by successful partnerships. The farmer and staff leadership at DMI realized early on that promotion funding was finite but its impact could be infinite. By working with the dairy industry, the quick serve industry, consumer product companies, health professional organizations, universities and others, DMI has extended the impact of dairy checkoff promotion dollars. DMI partnerships with industry leaders have resulted in billions of additional pounds of milk sold. This approach has been successful because DMI is: -Working with companies whose strategies are aligned with dairy producers -Working with category leader companies that can affect sales across the entire category, not just for a specific brand -Using industry investments to build on producer investments to help grow sales. In the fluid milk and cheese examples discussed earlier, for every $1 that dairy producers contribute, our partners invested more than $6. This includes equipment at restaurants to accommodate new specialty beverages, marketing and advertising campaigns, and dedicated dairy-specific menu development and innovation. Partnerships extend the impact of the farmer's promotion dollars which means more opportunities exist to meet unmet demand. DMI formed the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy in 2008 to further amplify this business model by providing a forum for the dairy industry to pre-competitively address common barriers and opportunities for growth. Innovation Center priorities are dairy farmer priorities: Health and Wellness, Research and Insights, Globalization, Food Safety, Sustainability, and Consumer Confidence. The Innovation Center boasts participation from 300+ companies and more than 1,000 individuals, all volunteering time and resources to support industry growth and extending the impact of promotion dollars. Most recently, DMI founded the Dairy Research Institute to strengthen U.S. dairy's access to and the industry's investment in technical research to drive innovation and grow sales in the United States and around the world. The Institute supports the nutrition, product and sustainability research needs of the industry on behalf of the National Dairy Council and the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy. In 2012, nearly $60 million in non-checkoff resources from government and non-government sources, including direct dollars, in-kind services and volunteer manpower hours by industry and technical experts, has been raised to support projects that improve efficiency, lower costs, add business value, and contribute to the sustainability of U.S. dairy. Health & Wellness Since 1915, National Dairy Council (NDC) has provided science-based nutrition and health education to ensure that dairy's nutrient-rich package is protected and promoted as a critical part of a healthful lifestyle, especially for children and adolescents. This science-based research was used to inform the current Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) and new and existing evidence will be submitted as part of the 2015 DGA process. The DGA shapes the guidelines for government nutrition programs (including schools), and are represented in the USDA's MyPlate consumer education tool. The goal of NDC's efforts is to gain ongoing thought leader support for dairy's indispensable role in a healthy and sustainable diet. There is a library worth of science supporting dairy's health benefits and consumer desire for dairy. Support for dairy health and wellness is coming to life through the unprecedented partnerships among NDC and groups such as the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the School Nutrition Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, Feeding America, the National Hispanic Medical Association, industry and beyond. Without a doubt, Fuel Up to Play 60 (FUTP 60) is dairy's best success story when it comes to advancing health and wellness among youth. The intent of FUTP 60 is to improve the nutrition and physical activity environment in schools and empower youth to be agents of change. FUTP 60 is an in-school nutrition and physical activity program that empowers students to make positive changes at school, and it can bring healthy changes to life in the classroom and beyond. FUTP 60, launched nationally in 2009, was founded by the National Dairy Council and the National Football League, in collaboration with the United States Department of Agriculture. It has grown into the largest health and wellness program in schools across the country and is currently active in more than 73,000 schools - that is three-fourths of all the schools in the U.S. - reaching more than 39 million students. | |
| The program has not only been well received by schools as it helps them | improve the school health and wellness enivronment, but also has been | embraced by those outside of the dairy industry who see the value of engaging in the program. Our success with FUTP60 goes beyond healthy eating and physical activity in schools. It is about the total health of the child, from hungry to healthy, which includes the connection between health and academic achievement or the "learning connection" to telling the story about how dairy foods get from the farm to the table. Unique Local and National Resources Across the country there are more than 350 individuals working each day to promote and protect dairy products, dairy farmers and the U.S. dairy industry. These people are experts in communications, school programs, nutrition affairs, and marketing. They have decades-long relationships with school foodservice professionals, registered dietitians and other health professional organizations, retailers, and universities. Their efforts are coordinated into an annual unified marketing plan to ensure efficient and effective use of farmer resources. Partners are attracted to DMI and its local affiliates because of this unique and valuable resource, along with the strength of these national and local relationships that exist across the country. At its heart, dairy promotion is a product of a grassroots-driven, dairy farmer-led effort. For more than 30 years, farmer leadership has encouraged DMI and other promotion organizations to grow sales, look for ways to meet unmet demand, and protect and promote dairy's place in a healthy diet. Per capita consumption of dairy products is up, from 522 pounds in 1983 to more than 600 pounds today. Dairy farmers and importers benefit from the partnerships, nutrition research and product development, and consumer confidence efforts that they fund as the dairy checkoff helps create new sales opportunities for dairy products, here and abroad. For more information on DMI and the dairy checkoff please visit www.dairy.org. DESCRIBE THE PROCESS USED BY MANAGEMENT &/OR GOVERNING BODY TO REVIEW 990 FORM 990, PART VI, LINE 11A FORM 990 INFORMATION WAS DISCUSSED WITH THE OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. FORM 990 IS AVAILABLE TO BOARD MEMBERS FOR REVIEW UPON REQUEST. MANAGEMENT REVIEWS THE 990 DETAILS FOR COMPLIANCE WITH THE ORGANIZATION'S TAX SPECIALISTS FROM ITS AUDIT AND TAX FIRM. MANAGEMENT AND CORPORATE COUNCIL REVIEW THE POLICIES RELATING TO GOVERNANCE, MANAGEMENT AND DISLOSURE TO ENSURE AND MONITOR COMPLIANCE WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION. MANAGEMENT AND DISLOSURE TO ENSURE AND MONITOR COMPLIANCE WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION. MANAGEMENT AND DISLOSURE TO ENSURE AND MONITOR COMPLIANCE WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION. COMPLIANCE WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION. WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION. MANAGEMENT AND DISLOSURE TO ENSURE AND MONITOR COMPLIANCE WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION. COMPLIANCE WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION. |
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