HP Hood LLC is an American dairy company based in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. In 2004, the company acquired Crowley Foods, based in Binghamton, New York, and Kemps, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. HP Hood was founded in Derry, New Hampshire in 1846 by Harvey Perley Hood, whose ancestors arrived in Massachusetts in 1638. Today, the company has annual sales revenue of about $2.2 billion.
Hood iconography
HP Hood is still a New England icon and their name and logo are well known. While Hood has vacated their large building along Interstate 93 in Somerville, the building is still referred to as "the Hood plant" by traffic reporters when commenting on the backups along I-93. The company ran a highway safety campaign called Hood Samaritan (see Good Samaritan) circa 1960. At the Boston Children's Museum, the outdoor ice cream stand takes the form of a large Hood Milk Bottle. The Hood blimp often appears at sport and cultural events, and it made news on September 26 2006 when it came down in a wooded area near Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts.[1] A famous Supreme Court Case, H.P. Hood and Sons v. DuMond, was decided in the Hood Company's favor, in which New York was prevented from withholding a license to sell milk made in New York in Massachusetts, based on the dormant commerce clause limitations on state intervention in interstate commerce.
