0001588305-15-000100.txt : 20151113 0001588305-15-000100.hdr.sgml : 20151113 20151113164219 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001588305-15-000100 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20151110 FILED AS OF DATE: 20151113 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20151113 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: DEAN FOODS CO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000931336 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: ICE CREAM & FROZEN DESSERTS [2024] IRS NUMBER: 752559681 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2711 N. HASKELL AVENUE STREET 2: SUITE 3400 CITY: DALLAS STATE: TX ZIP: 75204 BUSINESS PHONE: 2143033400 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2711 N. HASKELL AVENUE STREET 2: SUITE 3400 CITY: DALLAS STATE: TX ZIP: 75204 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: DEAN FOODS CO/ DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20011221 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: SUIZA FOODS CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19941013 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: McCluskey Helen CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001294722 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-12755 FILM NUMBER: 151229720 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2211 REDDING ROAD CITY: FAIRFIELD STATE: CT ZIP: 06430 3 1 edgar.xml PRIMARY DOCUMENT X0206 3 2015-11-10 0 0000931336 DEAN FOODS CO DF 0001294722 McCluskey Helen 2711 NORTH HASKELL AVENUE SUITE 3400 DALLAS TX 75204 1 0 0 0 Common Stock 0 D Kay F. Stockler, Attorney-in-Fact 2015-11-13 EX-24 2 attach_1.htm MCCLUSKEY - POWER OF ATTORNEY

POWER OF ATTORNEY



      Know all by these presents that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Marc

L. Kesselman, Kristy N. Waterman, Kay F. Stockler, and Rita Townsend the undersigned's true and

lawful attorney-in-fact to:



1. execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an

executive officer and/or director of Dean Foods Company (previously known as

Suiza Foods Corporation) (the "Company"), Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with

Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;



2. do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be

necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Forms 3, 4 or 5 and file

such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock

exchange or similar authority; and



3. take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which,

in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or

legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed

by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of

Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such

attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.



      The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do

and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the

exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the

undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,

hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or

substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done, or shall lawfully have already done or caused to be

done, by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned

acknowledges that each of the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request

of the undersigned, is not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's

responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.



      This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer

required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in

securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing

delivered to the foregoing attorney-in-fact.



      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be

executed as of this 11th day of November, 2015.





/s/ Helen E. McCluskey



Helen E. McCluskey

Typed Name