Fairlife Fairlife Fairlife, stylized as fa!rlife, is a brand of ultrafiltered milk distributed in the United States by The Coca-Cola Company. The milk comes in four varieties: reduced fat, chocolate, fat-free, and whole milk. Anders Porter of Fairlife's Coopersville, Michigan facility stated, "we separate the cream, filter, heat treat, homogenize, test and bottle the milk." According to Sue McCloskey, who developed the system used to make Fairlife with her husband Mike McCloskey, the ultrafiltration process removes the lactose and much of the sugar and leaves behind more of the protein and calcium. Fairlife is labeled as ultra-filtered milk. In 2012, fairlife,
Criticism of Coca-Cola European Union investigation found its business methods stifled competition. In November 2005, Coca-Cola's Mexican unit - Coca-Cola Export Corporation - and a number of its distributors and bottlers were fined $68 million for unfair commercial practices. Coca-Cola is appealing the case. On July 7, 2008, Coca-Cola Co compromised to pay $137.5 million to settle an October 2000 shareholder lawsuit. Coca-Cola was charged in a U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, with "forcing some bottlers to purchase hundreds of millions of dollars of unnecessary beverage concentrate to make its sales seem higher." Institutional investors, led by Carpenters Health