Oberweis Dairy
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| Private | |
| Industry | Restaurant, home delivery |
| Founded | 1927 |
| Headquarters | North Aurora, Illinois |
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Number of locations
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54 |
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Area served
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IL, MO, WI, MI, IN, MN, VA |
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Key people
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Jim Oberweis, Chairman Joe Oberweis, President and CEO |
| Products | Dairy and fast food |
| Website | http://www.tbjburgers.com/ |
Oberweis Dairy, headquartered in North Aurora, Illinois, is the parent company of several dairy-related and fast food restaurant operations in the midwest region of the United States. Its businesses include a home delivery service available in parts of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, and Wisconsin, which delivers traditional dairy products, including milk, ice cream, cheese, and yogurt, as well as bacon and seasonal products. The businesses also include a chain of corporate-owned "Dairy and Ice Cream Stores", in the Chicago area, which sell many of the same products as the home delivery service, a distribution service which allows for some of their products (such as milk) to be available in regional supermarkets, and also includes a franchise service, which expanded the "Dairy and Ice Cream Stores" into Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri, and Michigan after 2004. In 2012, Oberweis also began a new franchise of high-end, fast food hamburger restaurants called "That Burger Joint", intended to compete with Five Guys. The firm is privately owned by the Oberweis family.
The business was started in 1915 by Peter J. Oberweis, who made a profit by selling his excess milk to his neighbors in Kane County, Illinois. According to the Dairy's website, the family's farm was off of Molitor Road, in Aurora, Illinois. The family used a horse and carriage to deliver milk to their neighbors, beginning in 1927, after Peter J. Oberweis invested in half of the business of the Big Woods Dairy. The business continued in the family, with Peter's son, Joe, running the business through the 1950s. Current owner, Jim Oberweis, purchased the company from his brother in 1986 and named his son, Joe, CEO in 2007.
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