Dairyland USA 401(k) plan

Dairyland USA Corp., Ridgefield, CT. EIN 13-3286147. Annual reports 2009–2025. Also filed as Dairyland USA Corp.

Dairyland USA Corp. has one active retirement plan on file, the Chef'S Warehouse 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan & Trust, with 4,805 participants and $139 million in assets in 2025. Principal has been its recordkeeper since 2019. No traditional pension plan appears in Dairyland USA's filings since 2009.

Active plans: 1
Participants: 4,805
Plan assets: $139 million
401(k) recordkeeper: Principal
Plans on file: 1
Industry: Wholesale trade

The plan

Chef'S Warehouse 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan & Trust

401(k)Active

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2025 plan year.

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 13-3286147
Participants (2025): 4,805
Net assets (2025): $139 million
Recordkeeper: PrincipalEarlier: Ascensus (2009–2018)
Plan administrator: Dairyland USA Corp.
100 East Ridge RD.
Ridgefield, CT 06877
(203) 894-1345As filed for 2025
In effect since: June 1, 1993

Earlier plan names: Dairyland USA Corporation 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan and Trust; Dairyland USA Corporation 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan & Trust; The Chef'S Warehouse 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan & Trust.

Year by year, 2009 to 2025

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2025	4,805	$139 million	Principal
2024	5,457	$117 million	Principal
2023	4,737	$99.2 million	Principal
2022	4,159	$65.0 million	Principal
2021	4,806	$71.4 million	Principal
2020	2,521	$58.7 million	Principal
2019	3,036	$47.4 million	Principal
2018	2,011	$35.7 million	Ascensus
2017	2,077	$34.3 million	Ascensus
2016	1,942	$26.6 million	Ascensus
2015	1,793	$21.5 million	Ascensus
2014	1,185	$16.8 million	Ascensus
2013	1,145	$13.9 million	Ascensus
2012	980	$8.6 million	Ascensus
2011	803	$6.8 million	Ascensus
2010	676	$5.8 million	Ascensus
2009	621	$5.1 million	Ascensus

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Principal (principal.com), which runs the Chef'S Warehouse 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan & Trust. With your Social Security number and the plan name, it can tell you whether you still have a balance and, if not, where it went.
Or call the plan administrator listed on the plan below ((203) 894-1345). That number was filed for 2025; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
Still stuck? The Department of Labor's benefits advisers help for free: askebsa.dol.gov or 1-866-444-3272. Never pay anyone to find your own money.

What these numbers are

They come from the Form 5500 annual reports each plan files with the Department of Labor, as the plan filed them. A plan year is usually a calendar year.
Participants counts everyone in the plan at year end: current employees, former employees who still have a balance or a pension coming, and retirees or beneficiaries being paid.
The recordkeeper is the service provider whose Schedule C entry says it keeps the plan's records. Small plans do not file Schedule C, so some plans show none.
We cannot see anyone's account. Only the plan or its recordkeeper can tell you your balance.

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 datasets and PBGC trusteed plans. How we read them.

The plan

Chef'S Warehouse 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan & Trust

If you had money in one of these plans

What these numbers are

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