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The Motley Fool April 3, 2007 Rich Smith	Lifeway's Profits Sour The Helios buyout curdled the kefir maker's margins. Management has a lot of work to do if it's to convince investors that its largest acquisition ever was also its best ever.
The Motley Fool August 4, 2006 Rich Smith	Lifeway Gets Jumbo-Sized The No. 1 & No. 2 kefir-makers will merge. In the final analysis, Lifeway looks fairly priced, but there's little room for error. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool October 11, 2006 Rich Smith	Lifeway Plays It Cool The absolute dominance that Lifeway obtained over the nascent market for kefir in the U.S. when it acquired its No. 2 rival should result in accelerated sales growth for Lifeway and Helios both. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 12, 2007 Rich Smith	Fool on Call: Lifeway's Corporate Cotillion The dairy maid makes her debut. Lifeway announced its first-quarter 2007 sales results just one day after reporting its fourth-quarter 2006 earnings results. While the latter contained some disturbing trends in both sales and earnings, the former boasted remarkable news of sales growth.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2008 Rich Smith	Lifeway Hits a Speed Bump Kefir manufacturer Lifeway says sales are approaching their target of $1 million dollars a week.
The Motley Fool May 23, 2005 Rich Smith	Lifeway on Ice The up-and-coming dairy puts profits growth in the fridge. If only free cash flow and profits growth could again match that performance, Lifeway would rise to become the cream of the dairy industry's crop.
The Motley Fool February 14, 2007 Rich Smith	I Love Lifeway Foods Deploying its cash hoard in a series of smart acquisitions in the dairy sphere, Lifeway has tripled its enterprise value in just three years. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 9, 2008 Rich Smith	Lifeway's Wishful Thinking Kefir maker Lifeway Foods reports 20%-plus organic growth in the fourth quarter, continuing a trend of many such quarters, but for how long can this continue?
The Motley Fool May 16, 2007 Rich Smith	Lifeway's Sweet Success Things are looking up for the kefir maker. When stacked up against last year's negative free cash flow of more than $50,000, the mere $4,200 net cash outflow in the first-quarter 2007 results shows considerable improvement.
The Motley Fool August 11, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Lifeway's Surprise Party In advance of earnings, analysts are predicting Lifeway Foods sales to increase 21%, while profits, unfortunately, head in the other direction.
The Motley Fool May 13, 2011 Rich Smith	Lifeway Foods Gives Wall Street a Healthy Glow The little kefir maker has just reported earnings that proved Wall Street right.
The Motley Fool February 10, 2009 Rich Smith	Lifeway Drinks Up Another Rival Lifeway Foods, the little Illinois maker of a delicious, yoghurt-like beverage known as kefir, announces yesterday that it's buying its biggest rival in the kefir market, Pennsylvania's privately held Fresh Made Foods.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2006 Rich Smith	Lifeway Free at Last The would-be kefir king reports solid results and ends its Danone deal. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool March 22, 2007 Rich Smith	Dairy Drought Prudential touched upon a longish term trend at the dairy company that should interest investors.
The Motley Fool July 8, 2004 Rich Smith	Dairy Company Plays Coy Illinois kefir maker Lifeway Foods plans to buy a gourmet cream cheese maker based in Philadelphia.
The Motley Fool November 18, 2010 Rich Smith	Does Lifeway Deserve a Premium P/E? Lifeway could soon be within spitting distance of the kind of upper-teens operating margins that larger foodstuffs companies like General Mills and PepsiCo produce.
The Motley Fool August 17, 2005 Rich Smith	Lifeway Has a Pulse Profits roar back to life for the kefir maker. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool April 5, 2010 Rich Smith	Is It Time to Buy Lifeway? Not unless it can find something to buy.
The Motley Fool May 16, 2008 Rich Smith	Lifeway Throws Us for a Loop Operationally, things are going great guns at Lifeway. Now if we could just get those cash flow statements, please?
The Motley Fool August 25, 2004 Rich Smith	Lifeway's Cost Crisis What happens when a great company gets hit by unforeseen circumstances? In the second quarter of 2004, Lifeway experienced a small complication: The price of the main ingredient for its products doubled.
The Motley Fool October 4, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Crazy for Kefir Lifeway's accelerating growth could be a nourishing beverage for investors.
The Motley Fool November 19, 2007 Rich Smith	Lifeway Relives History With milk selling at all-time highs, Lifeway faces serious margin pressure, and panic selling by shareholders.
The Motley Fool December 1, 2008 Rich Smith	Lifeway Toasts Itself For the second time this year, Lifeway took advantage of a stock swoon to sweep in and scoop up some cheap shares -- 100,000, to be exact.
The Motley Fool November 18, 2005 Rich Smith	Lifeway Gets Milked The cost of doing business for the kefir maker rises precipitously -- investors, take note.
The Motley Fool August 15, 2008 Rich Smith	No Surprise (Party) at Lifeway The economy is a party pooper.
The Motley Fool November 17, 2008 Rich Smith	What Are the Lifeway Analysts Thinking? Despite growing its sales 15%, and its profits 67% -- numbers that fellow foodies General Mills, Kraft, and Dean Foods would drool over -- Lifeway's share price actually drops. Is that fair?
The Motley Fool August 16, 2007 Rich Smith	Lifeway's Cool Profits Lifeway Foods reports an excellent quarter, an excellent half, and looking long, an excellent year, thanks in large part to their bottled kefir protein drink, which is flying off the shelves at supermarkets and specialty shops everywhere.
The Motley Fool May 24, 2005 Rich Smith	Lifeway Finds Its Target The deal with Target takes the kefir maker one step closer to nationwide recognition of its product. And since recognition is a prerequisite to making a sale, and making a sale a prerequisite to making a profit on that sale, this is good news for shareholders.
The Motley Fool January 5, 2006 W.D. Crotty	Lifeway Finds Costco Lifeway to test market for its kefir product at Costco. The news sent the stock on a two-day rally. But investors would be wise to watch, rather than own, this promising company.
The Motley Fool May 21, 2007 Rich Smith	My Wrong Turn on Lifeway Kefir maker Lifeway Foods advised that it has landed its first big food service client, U.S. Foodservice. What does Lifeway's announcement mean to investors? Well, that depends.
The Motley Fool October 13, 2008 Rich Smith	Lifeway Comes Up Short Sales miss Street's target, putting earnings growth at risk.
The Motley Fool May 21, 2004 Rich Smith	Volatility as a Way of Life Investing in micro caps can be volatile. Case in point: Lifeway Foods, maker of specialty dairy foods for health-conscious consumers.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2004 Rich Smith	Small Cap, Big Potential Kefir, a drinkable yogurt that is a staple on most Russian breakfast tables, is relatively unknown here in the U.S. Lifeway Foods, a Chicago-based micro cap with a 10-year history of successful growth, aims to change that. The company has made all the right moves lately.
The Motley Fool February 18, 2004 Rich Smith	The Making of a Momentum Stock What happens when everyone jumps on a tiny bandwagon? Last week, Rich Smith wrote about the healthy prospects of Lifeway Foods, America's largest kefir maker. Within 24 hours of publication, the stock rose over 20%. Within a week, it had increased almost 100% -- a near two-bagger! Rich takes another look at the stock today to see whether the run-up is justified.
The Motley Fool May 1, 2008 Matthew Reilly	Lukewarm Dean Foods Dean Foods reports comparatively strong first-quarter results.
The Motley Fool December 15, 2004 Rich Smith	Vitamin D Is for Deficit With a subsidy nearing expiration, dairy farmers may be culling their herds. That'll come as small consolation to the shareholders of the dairy companies, of course, unless they can find a way to pass their higher costs on to consumers
The Motley Fool December 3, 2004 Rich Smith	Wimm-Bill-Dann's Spilt Milk Between the continuing slide in GAAP profitability and the accompanying decline in the Russian dairy and juice concern's stock price, investors in the company can be forgiven for shedding a few tears.
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