A fluid milk plant in Buena Park, Calif., is the next on the list of closures for the Texas-based Dean Foods.
News of the closure came during the company's first quarter earnings report last week, when CEO Gregg Tanner confirmed that Dean Foods would be focusing on an efforts to cut costs for the next 18 months.
Tanner re-stated the plan to shut down 10-15 percent of its fresh dairy plants and eliminate a "significant number" of distribution routes by the end of 2014.
Dean Foods owns about 79 fresh dairy plants across the U.S., including Le Mars' milk plant.
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