Chobani's Ulukaya Rings The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell

Before the closing bell ceremony, P.C. Nelson Griggs, Nasdaq OMX's Vice President of Global Corporate Client Group, says Chobani has grown to 1 billion company in 9 years and the company's commitment to donate 10pc of profits to charity.
 
At the event, Hamdi Ulukaya says when Chobani started with only five employees and now it has reached to 3000 employees. ''Everybody deserves healthy and good food and we provide it,'' says Ulukaya.  Turkish-born Ulukaya founded Chobani in upstate New York in 2005 and launched Chobani Greek Yogurt two years later. Less than six years after launch it is the best-selling yogurt brand in the US with annual sales approaching US$1bn.

Chobani has 3,000 employees and operates the largest yogurt factory in the world selling its products to Australia and the UK as well as the US.