QCS Purchasing, LLC
Economies of scale and a wealth of industry resources are part and parcel of QCS Purchasing, LLC membership.  In 2005, SECO and Quality Chekd Dairies, Inc. formed QCS Purchasing LLC.  In 2008, the organization added Allied Purchasing to its ownership.  This partnership has allowed us to combine our common purchase requirements and has enhanced the opportunity to aggregate and leverage our purchases to mutual advantage.

The fully-integrated purchasing company offers substantial savings to the combined membership of the three organizations. QCS provides competitive costs in packaging, resin, commodities, ingredients, cleaners, sanitizers, automotive and other valuable offerings crucial to food, dairy and agricultural businesses.  Members additionally tap into an expanded package of industry services to create a tailor-made, value-based program geared toward company needs.

SECO & Golden “100” Inc

SECO & Golden “100” Inc. is a member owned not-for-profit buying organization purchasing cooperative headquartered in DeLand, Fla., formed in 1945 by a group of southeast dairy producers/processors who sought to improve bargaining power by combining and leveraging purchasing requirements. Today, the membership of 45 companies, with 270 plant locations, is comprised of agriculturally based cooperatives and proprietary companies engaged in the production of food and dairy products. The purchasing locations are based throughout the United States, Canada, Costa Rica and New Zealand.

Allied Purchasing

One of the nation’s oldest dairy buying organizations, Mason City, Iowa-based Allied Purchasing is a member owned not-for-profit buying organization. Allied was established in 1937 as the Iowa Dairy Products Cooperative Association with a few dozen members. Within a year, membership grew to encompass dairy processors in other states and the United Dairy Cooperative Association emerged. The addition of members and purchasing scope throughout the beverage processing industry led to the 1979 name change to Allied Purchasing. Today there are 1,176 Allied stockholder members with more than 2,000 facilities – including 252 dairy members with 337 facilities and 671 bottled water processors with 841 plants – in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico.

Silliker Inc.

Quality Chekd Dairies, Inc. uses Silliker Inc. as a third party to test the member dairy products to make sure they live up to the rigorous standards. Silliker, Inc., an independent laboratory, tests products monthly to make sure they meet top standards for freshness and flavor. The laboratory, conducts bacterial, chemical, and organoleptic product testing in addition to certification of milk containers.