Chobani

An Upstate New York businessman has donated an astounding $2 million for earthquake relief efforts in Turkey.

Chobani has been valued at more than $10 billion and was started back in 2005 quite modestly by Turkish immigrant Hamdi Ulukaya, who after coming to the United States, took out a small loan and bought an old yogurt plant in Edmeston, NY.

The Foundation’s Community Impact Fund is now doubled.

NEW YORK (AP) — Chobani says it is giving its employees an ownership stake in the privately held company. The Greek yogurt maker says the shares being distributed would amount to 10 percent of the company's future value in the event of a sale or initial public offering...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Representative Richard Hanna announced the success and expansion of the U.S. Department of Agriculture pilot program to serve New York-based Chobani yogurt in school lunches. New York State was chosen as one of four states to participate in the pilot program in July 2013...

Chobani, producer of Greek yogurt and important local employer, is being dropped by Whole Foods, the large US supermarket chain which focuses on health foods. At issue is the problem of GMOs, genetically modified organisms, being included in food labeling...

"Fizzy" and "swelling" yogurt has led Chobani to pull some of its products off the shelves.  The defect is a result of a type of mold commonly found in dairy.

It took roughly a half hour for Norwich firefighters to extinguish a fire at the Chobani corporate office building in the town of Norwich.

State Senator James Seward has announced his support for a full New York State Department of Transportation study of traffic safety issues along State Route 8 in Chenango County approaching the Chobani yogurt plant.

Fresh off being named Ernst & Young's World Entrepreneur of the Year, Chobani founder and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya got some more good news this week. His company is growing at the same rate as Facebook and Google did in their infancy.