The Boston Globe Downtown Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2000 by Bailey, Steve

Apr. 7--I like milk. I like it with my Cheerios in the morning and my cookies at night. With two kids, and another on the way, milk is important in my household.

So while that predator Microsoft gets all the attention, we're focused on a monopolist you have probably never heard of. At what point do we worry about one player dominating a market? A 50-percent market share? Sixty percent? Try 80 percent. That's the share of the Massachusetts milk market regulators say Suiza Foods Corp., the nation's largest milk processor, will have when it completes its newest step in cornering the market here.

When you go to the store you largely have three choices buying milk: H.P. Hood, Garelick Farms, and the store-brand. But, in fact, you have just two choices;...

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