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Chobani Brings Greek Yogurt Facility To Idaho

In December 2012, the New York-based Greek yogurt company began making yogurt at it’s new manufacturing facility in Twin Falls, Idaho.The company announced in 2011 plans to build it’s second U.S. manufacturing plant. Chobani chose Twin Falls. The company has said it plans to hire up to 500 people once the facility starts operating at full capacity.Hamdi Ulukaya founded the Chobani Greek Yogurt company in 2005. According to Chobani’s website, Ulukaya threw himself into the yogurt business after he saw an ad for a recently shuttered Kraft yogurt plant in his local newspaper. He purchased that facility.By 2007, Chobani Greek Yogurt could be found in New York grocery stores. By 2010, it became the number one selling Greek yogurt in the country.

Alex Jones Apologizes For 'Mischaracterizing' Chobani And The City Of Twin Falls

Boise State Public Radio News | By Norm Gunning

Published May 17, 2017 at 4:21 PM MDT

Alex Jones has both a radio show and a website by the name of InfoWars. The Chobani company has a large greek yogurt processing complex in Twin Falls. The plant has more than 1,000 employees, including hundreds of refugees.

In early April Jones published a video and promoted it online, claiming Chobani was, "importing migrant rapists." That and other comments by Jones led the company and its founder, Hamdi Ulukaya, to file a defamation suit against Jones in Federal Court in Twin Falls.

The Los Angeles Times reports a key part of the settlement agreement required Jones to retract inflammatory comments he made against the company. Reversing course from previous claims he would never back down, Jones read a brief statement at the end of his radio show Wednesday saying he had retracted previous stories and tweets about Chobani.

The statement concludes: "On behalf of InfoWars I regret that we mischaracterized Chobani, its employees and the people of Twin Falls, the way we did."

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Alex Jones Apologizes For 'Mischaracterizing' Chobani And The City Of Twin Falls

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