Dean Foods

aid: dean-foods
name: Dean Foods
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dean-foods/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Producing
access: 1st-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/dean-foods.png
tags:
- Acquired
- Beverages
- Dairy
- Defunct
- Food and Beverage
- Milk
- Fortune 500
created: '2025-01-01'
modified: '2026-09-05'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-status: defunct
x-status-detail: Filed Chapter 11 in November 2019; most assets sold to Dairy Farmers of America in 2020 and the company wound
  down. No first-party site remains.
kind: company
description: Dean Foods was a leading U.S. food and beverage company and one of the largest processors and direct-to-store
  distributors of fresh fluid milk and other dairy products. After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2019, most of Dean
  Foods' assets were acquired by Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) in 2020. Dean Foods no longer operates as an independent company
  and does not publish a public developer API; surviving brands are now managed under DFA. This profile is retained for historical
  reference.
apis: []
common:
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dean-foods
- type: Acquirer
  url: https://www.dfamilk.com/
- type: ShutdownNotice
  url: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dean-foods-company-initiates-voluntary-reorganization-with-new-financial-support-from-existing-lenders-300956285.html
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/dean-foods-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/dean-foods-llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-05'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v3
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: Dean Foods filed Chapter 11 on 2019-11-12 and its plants and brands were sold to Dairy Farmers of America in May
    2020; the company has no operating surface left to profile — deanfoods.com is now registered to Dairy Farmers of America,
    Inc., serves no HTTPS at all (the TLS handshake to port 443 aborts with "tlsv1 alert internal error", so every https probe
    returns 0 rather than a status code), and over plain HTTP answers 301 to https://www.dfamilk.com/ for every path including
    /openapi.json, /llms.txt and all seven /.well-known/ paths, while no api., developer., docs. or portal. subdomain resolves
    on either deanfoods.com or dfamilk.com and no GitHub organization exists under any spelling of the name.
  evidence:
  - url: https://deanfoods.com/openapi.json
    status: 0
  - url: https://deanfoods.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 0
  - url: http://deanfoods.com/
    status: 301
  - url: https://www.dfamilk.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.dfamilk.com/zzz-soft404-control-probe
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/deanfoods
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-09-05'