Lifeway Foods, Inc

Headquarters

Philadelphia, PA

Lifeway Foods, Inc. makes kefir and other cultured dairy foods, a business Michael and Ludmila Smolyansky began in their Skokie, Illinois home in 1986. The company describes itself as the largest kefir manufacturer in the United States and has expanded its product line to include farmer cheese, probiotic smoothies, and kefir butter.

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