Document:

Exhibit 10.4

 Exhibit 10.4 
 EMPLOYEE MATTERS AGREEMENT 
 by and between 

Dean Foods Company 
 The WhiteWave Foods Company 
 and 

WWF Operating Company 
 dated as of October 25, 2012 

 Table of Contents 

 

							
	 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS
	  	 	2	  
			
	 Section 1.1.
	 	Definitions	  	 	2	  
		
	 ARTICLE II. RELATIONSHIP AT AND FOLLOWING IPO
	  	 	6	  
			
	 Section 2.1.
	 	Employees, Employee Liabilities Generally	  	 	6	  
			
	 Section 2.2.
	 	Employees and Benefits Generally	  	 	6	  
		
	 ARTICLE III. TRANSFERRED EMPLOYEES; ASSUMPTION OF LIABILITIES
	  	 	7	  
			
	 Section 3.1.
	 	Transferred Employees	  	 	7	  
			
	 Section 3.2.
	 	Assumption of Liabilities	  	 	8	  
			
	 Section 3.3.
	 	General Principles	  	 	8	  
			
	 Section 3.4.
	 	Reimbursement	  	 	9	  
		
	 ARTICLE IV. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS
	  	 	9	  
			
	 Section 4.1.
	 	Continuity and Performance of Agreements	  	 	9	  
		
	 ARTICLE V. WHITEWAVE PLANS GENERALLY
	  	 	10	  
			
	 Section 5.1.
	 	Establishment of WhiteWave Plans	  	 	10	  
			
	 Section 5.2.
	 	Terms of Participation by WhiteWave Employees	  	 	10	  
		
	 ARTICLE VI. HEALTH AND WELFARE
	  	 	11	  
			
	 Section 6.1.
	 	Assumption of Health and Welfare Plans	  	 	11	  
			
	 Section 6.2.
	 	Adoption of Health and Welfare Plans	  	 	12	  
			
	 Section 6.3.
	 	COBRA	  	 	13	  
			
	 Section 6.4.
	 	Workers’ Compensation Claims	  	 	13	  
		
	 ARTICLE VII. PENSION PLANS
	  	 	14	  
			
	 Section 7.1.
	 	No Establishment of Defined Benefit Pension Plan	  	 	14	  
		
	 ARTICLE VIII. 401(k) PLANS
	  	 	15	  
			
	 Section 8.1.
	 	Establishment of the WhiteWave 401(k) Plan	  	 	15	  
			
	 Section 8.2.
	 	Assumption of Liabilities and Transfer of Assets	  	 	15	  
		
	 ARTICLE IX. EQUITY BASED AND OTHER LONG-TERM INCENTIVE AWARDS
	  	 	16	  
			
	 Section 9.1.
	 	General Treatment of Outstanding Awards;Adoption of New Stock Incentive Plan	  	 	16	  
		
	 ARTICLE X. SHORT TERM INCENTIVES
	  	 	18	  
			
	 Section 10.1.
	 	Incentive Plans	  	 	18	  

							
	 ARTICLE XI. DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLANS
	  	 	18	  
			
	 Section 11.1.
	 	Establishment of the WhiteWave EDCP	  	 	18	  
			
	 Section 11.2.
	 	Establishment of the WhiteWave SERP	  	 	18	  
			
	 Section 11.3.
	 	Liabilities Under the Dean Foods EDCP and Dean Foods SERP	  	 	19	  
			
	 Section 11.4.
	 	Asset Transfer	  	 	19	  
		
	 ARTICLE XII. EXECUTIVE SEVERANCE PLAN AND CHANGE IN CONTROL AGREEMENTS
	  	 	19	  
			
	 Section 12.1.
	 	Establishment of the WhiteWave Executive Severance Pay Plan	  	 	19	  
			
	 Section 12.2.
	 	Change in Control Agreements	  	 	19	  
		
	 ARTICLE XIII. GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE
	  	 	20	  
			
	 Section 13.1.
	 	Sharing of Information	  	 	20	  
			
	 Section 13.2.
	 	Cooperation	  	 	20	  
			
	 Section 13.3.
	 	Consent of Third Parties	  	 	21	  
			
	 Section 13.4.
	 	Survival	  	 	21	  
			
	 Section 13.5.
	 	Interpretation	  	 	21	  
			
	 Section 13.6.
	 	No Third Party Beneficiaries	  	 	21	  
			
	 Section 13.7.
	 	Notices	  	 	22	  
			
	 Section 13.8.
	 	Governing Law; Jurisdiction	  	 	22	  
			
	 Section 13.9.
	 	Waiver of Jury Trial	  	 	23	  
			
	 Section 13.10.
	 	Specific Performance	  	 	23	  
			
	 Section 13.11.
	 	No Assignment; No Amendment; Counterparts	  	 	23	  

  
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 Employee Matters Agreement 

This Employee Matters Agreement (this “Agreement”) dated as of October 25, 2012, is made and entered by and among
Dean Foods Company, a Delaware Corporation (“Dean Foods”), The WhiteWave Foods Company, a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dean Foods (“WhiteWave”) and WWF Operating Company, a Delaware
corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dean Foods (“WWF Operating Company” and together with WhiteWave, the “WhiteWave Companies”). 
 Recitals 
 WHEREAS, Dean Foods owns all of the issued and outstanding
common stock of each of WhiteWave and WWF Operating Company; 
 WHEREAS, Dean Foods has determined that it would be appropriate,
desirable and in the best interests of Dean Foods and its stockholders to separate the businesses and operations comprising the WhiteWave-Alpro segment of Dean Foods, substantially all of which reside within WWF Operating Company and its direct and
indirect subsidiaries; 
 WHEREAS, WWF Operating Company proposes to declare a dividend resulting in the issuance to Dean Foods
of one or more inter-group promissory notes; the Parties propose to effect certain asset transfers; and Dean Foods proposes to contribute to White Wave all of the issued and outstanding common stock of WWF Operating Company, all as further described
in the Separation and Distribution Agreement dated of even date herewith among the Parties hereto; 
 WHEREAS, following the
foregoing dividend and contribution, WhiteWave intends to offer and sell Class A Common Stock pursuant to an initial public offering of such shares (the “IPO”); 
 WHEREAS, following completion of the IPO, Dean Foods intends to evaluate whether to effect a distribution of all or a portion of its remaining interest in WhiteWave (the “Distribution”)
the terms and conditions of which will be governed by the Separation and Distribution Agreement; 
 WHEREAS, in furtherance of
the foregoing, the Parties have agreed to enter into this Agreement for purposes of (i) addressing the treatment of WhiteWave Employees and their participation in employee benefit programs following the IPO and prior to the consummation of any
Distribution; (ii) addressing the treatment of WhiteWave Employees and their participation in employee benefit plans and programs that will be implemented at WhiteWave in connection with the Distribution for the benefit of such employees and
(iii) allocating assets, liabilities, rights and responsibilities with respect to employee compensation and benefits and other employment matters as a result of separation of WhiteWave from Dean Foods pursuant to the terms of the Separation and
Distribution Agreement. 

  
 Employee
Matters Agreement 

 NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises contained herein and in the
Separation and Distribution Agreement, the Parties agree as follows: 
 ARTICLE I. 

DEFINITIONS 

Section 1.1. Definitions  
 “Agreement” means this Employee Matters Agreement, and all exhibits, schedules, appendices and annexes hereto. 
 “Close of the Distribution Date” means 11:59:59 P.M., Eastern Standard Time or Eastern Daylight Time (whichever shall then be in effect), on the Distribution Date. 

“COBRA” has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 6.3. 

“Code” means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. 

“Combined Group Employee” has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 2.1(i). 

“Dean Foods” means Dean Foods Company, a Delaware corporation, and any successor in interest thereto. 

“Dean Foods Common Stock” means the common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Dean Foods. 

“Dean Foods EDCP” means the Dean Foods Executive Deferred Compensation Plan, as in effect or as it may be amended from
time to time. 
 “Dean Foods Employee” means any individual other than the Transferred Employees who,
immediately prior to the IPO, is employed by a member of the Dean Foods Group. 
 “Dean Foods Equity Plans” has
the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 9.1(a). 

  
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 “Dean Foods Executive Severance Plan” means the Dean Foods Executive
Severance Plan, as in effect or as it may be amended from time to time. 
 “Dean Foods Group” means Dean Foods
and each of its majority-owned subsidiaries other than any subsidiary that is a member of the WhiteWave Group. 
 “Dean
Foods Liabilities” means all Liabilities of Dean Foods or any other member of the Dean Foods Group. In no event shall the term Dean Foods Liabilities include any Liabilities that are transferred from or otherwise cease to be Liabilities of
Dean Foods or any Dean Foods Plan pursuant to this Agreement or that are or have become WhiteWave Liabilities. 
 “Dean
Foods Plan” means any Plan maintained or sponsored by Dean Foods or any other member of the Dean Foods Group at any time on or prior to the Distribution Date. 
 “Dean Foods 401(k) Plans” means collectively the Dean Foods Union 401(k) Plan and the Dean Foods 401(k) Plan, each as in effect or as it may be amended from time to time. 

“Dean Foods SERP” means the Dean Foods Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan, as in effect or as it may be amended from
time to time. 
 “Dean Foods Welfare Plans” has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 6.1. 

“Delayed Transfer Employee” has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 3.1(b). 

“Distribution” means the distribution by Dean Foods (or another member of the Dean Foods Group) of a sufficient portion
of the shares of the common stock of WhiteWave such that, immediately following such Distribution, Dean Foods is no longer directly or indirectly in control of WhiteWave. 
 “Distribution Date” means the effective date of the Distribution. 

“Former WhiteWave Employee” means an individual who, prior to the IPO, was, but has ceased to be, an employee of any
member of the Dean Foods Group or the WhiteWave Group and whose last employer among such entities was a member of the WhiteWave Group. 
 “Individual Agreement” means an individual employment contract or other similar agreement that specifically pertains to any WhiteWave Employee. 

“IPO” has the meaning ascribed to it in the recitals to this Agreement. 

  
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 “Liabilities” means any and all losses, claims, charges, debts, demands,
actions, costs and expenses (including administrative and related costs and expenses of any plan, program, or arrangement), of any nature whatsoever, whether absolute or contingent, vested or unvested, matured or unmatured, liquidated or
unliquidated, accrued or unaccrued, known or unknown, whenever arising. 
 “Outstanding Awards” has the meaning
ascribed to it in Section 9.1. 
 “Party” means each of Dean Foods, WhiteWave and WWF Operating Company.

 “Parties” has the meaning ascribed to it in the preamble to this Agreement. 

“Person” means an individual, a corporation, a business trust or association, a real estate investment trust, a
common-law trust, a limited liability company or an unincorporated business, including a general or limited partnership or registered limited liability partnership, a trust, an estate, a custodian, a nominee or any other entity in its own or any
representative capacity. 
 “Plan” means any plan, policy, program, payroll practice, on-going arrangement,
contract, trust, insurance policy or other agreement or funding vehicle, whether written or unwritten, providing compensation or benefits to employees, or former employees of WhiteWave or Dean Foods, as the case may be, in respect to their services
for any member of the Dean Foods Group or the WhiteWave Group. 
 “Replacement Equity Awards” has the meaning
ascribed to it in Section 9.1. 
 “Represented Employee” means any WhiteWave Employee whose terms and
conditions of employment are governed by a WhiteWave CBA as of the IPO or the Distribution Date. 
 “Short Term
Incentive Plan” means the Dean Foods 2012 Short-Term Incentive Compensation Plan, as the plan is amended from time to time. 
 “Specified Officers” means Gregg Engles, Thomas Zanetich and Edward Fugger. 
 “Transfer Date” has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 3.1(b). 
 “Transferred Employee” has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.1(a). 
 “WhiteWave” means The WhiteWave Foods Company, a Delaware corporation, and any successor in interest thereto. 
 “WhiteWave CBA” has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 4.1. 

  
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 “WhiteWave Common Stock” means the Class A common stock, par value
$0.01 per share, of WhiteWave. 
 “WhiteWave EDCP” has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 11.1.

 “WhiteWave Employee” means (i) any individual who, immediately prior to the IPO, is employed by
any member of the WhiteWave Group, (ii) each Transferred Employee and (iii) each Delayed Transferred Employee. “WhiteWave Employee” shall also include the beneficiaries and dependents of an individual described in
the first sentence of this definition. 
 “WhiteWave Executive Severance Plan” means the WhiteWave Executive
Severance Plan, as in effect or as it may be amended from time to time. 
 “WhiteWave Group” means the
WhiteWave and each of its majority-owned subsidiaries. 
 “WhiteWave Liabilities” means all Liabilities of
WhiteWave or any other member of the WhiteWave Group. 
 “WhiteWave Mirror Plans” means the WhiteWave Welfare
Plans, the WhiteWave 401(k) Plan, the WhiteWave EDCP, the WhiteWave SERP, and the WhiteWave Executive Severance Pay Plan which plans will be established and adopted by WhiteWave in connection with the Distribution pursuant to the terms provided for
in this Agreement. 
 “WhiteWave Plan” means any Plan maintained or sponsored by WhiteWave or any other member
of the WhiteWave Group for the benefit of any WhiteWave Employee or Former WhiteWave Employee. 
 “WhiteWave 401(k)
Plans” has the meaning ascribed to it in Section 8.1. 
 “WhiteWave SERP” has the meaning
ascribed to it in Section 11.2. 
 “WhiteWave Welfare Plans” has the meaning ascribed to it in
Section 6.2(b). 

  
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 ARTICLE II. 
 RELATIONSHIP AT AND FOLLOWING IPO 
 Section 2.1. Employees, Employee
Liabilities Generally. 
 Except as provided in this Section 2.1, each member of the Dean Foods Group and each member
of the WhiteWave Group shall be responsible for the Liabilities arising with respect to the employment by any member of the Dean Foods Group or the WhiteWave Group of (i) each person in its employment immediately following the IPO, and
(ii) each person whose last employment with any member of the Dean Foods Group and the WhiteWave Group (whether ending before or after the IPO) was with such entity. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent that 

(i) any benefit is provided to any Dean Foods Employee or WhiteWave Employee (a “Combined Group Employee”) under
or through an employee benefit plan, including any such plan intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code, that has segregated assets set aside for the payment of such benefits, the Liabilities for such benefits shall first be
payable from such plan and, to the extent the assets of such plan or any underlying trust or other funding vehicle are not sufficient to satisfy such Liabilities, as determined in accordance with applicable law; 

(ii) compensation is payable to any such Combined Group Employee in the form of an equity interest in the common stock of
Dean Foods (and not under an employee benefit plan described in subclause (i)), such compensation shall be provided by Dean Foods; and 
 (iii) any benefit or compensation (including any benefit or compensation otherwise described in either subclause (i) or (ii)) payable to, or any other Liability in respect of, any such Combined Group
Employee that is expressly allocated to any member of the Dean Foods Group or the WhiteWave Group pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, such specific allocation shall control. 
 Except to the extent otherwise expressly provided under the Agreement, neither the IPO nor the Distribution will affect the allocation of any Liabilities with respect to any Combined Group Employee by and
between any member of the Dean Foods Group or the WhiteWave Group. 
 Section 2.2. Employees and Benefits Generally.

 As of the date hereof, except with respect to the Specified Officers and those employees listed on Schedule A hereto, all
employees actively engaged on a regular basis in the business conducted by the WhiteWave Group are employees of a member of the WhiteWave Group. Except for employees of a member of the WhiteWave Group primarily performing services outside the United
States, all employees of the WhiteWave Group participate in employee benefit plans maintained and sponsored by Dean Foods or any member of the Dean Foods Group (the “Dean Foods Plans”). Following the IPO and

  
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prior to and through the Distribution Date, except as otherwise expressly provided below, each such WhiteWave Employee participating in any Dean Foods Plan at the IPO (and each person who becomes
a WhiteWave Employee after the date hereof and becomes eligible to participate in any such Dean Foods Plan in accordance with the terms of such Dean Foods Plan) shall participate in such Dean Foods Plan on the terms and conditions applicable under
such Dean Foods Plan, as currently in effect or as it may be amended from time to time. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, the continued participation of any employee of the WhiteWave Group in any such Dean Foods Plan shall be
subject to the WhiteWave Group member by which any such person is employed bearing the cost and expense of such participation in accordance with the policies, practices and arrangements (including, without limitation, the method of allocating
expenses and costs) in effect between the Parties on the date hereof, even if such policies, practices and arrangements would require payments or reimbursements to be made to Dean Foods by a WhiteWave Group member following the Distribution Date.
Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, if the Distribution shall occur, on the Distribution Date, each WhiteWave Employee shall cease to participate in each such Dean Foods Plan. 

ARTICLE III. 

TRANSFERRED EMPLOYEES; ASSUMPTION OF LIABILITIES 
 Section 3.1. Transferred Employees. 
 (a) General. The
employment of the Specified Officers, any employee of Dean Foods identified on Schedule A hereto and any other employee of Dean Foods that the Parties agree to add to Schedule A after the date hereof (the “Transferred Employees”) will be
transferred immediately prior to the IPO to WhiteWave, WWF Operating Company or such other member of the WhiteWave Group as WhiteWave shall designate. 
 (b) Delayed Transfer Employees. In the event that Dean Foods and WhiteWave agree to transfer the employment of any other employee of the Dean Foods Group to WhiteWave, WWF Operating Company or any
other member of the WhiteWave Group in connection with the Distribution, but following the IPO (each, a “Delayed Transfer Employee”), then effective as of the date the employment of such individual is transferred or such other date
as may otherwise be agreed in writing by and between Dean Foods and WhiteWave (the “Transfer Date”), WhiteWave shall assume all Liabilities of the type and nature that would have been assumed by WhiteWave pursuant to
Section 3.2 had such Delayed Transfer Employee been a Transferred Employee as of the IPO. 

  
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 Section 3.2. Assumption of Liabilities. 

(a) By WhiteWave. Except as otherwise expressly provided for in this Agreement, as of the IPO (or, if later, the Transfer Date)
WhiteWave (or such other member of the WhiteWave Group as it shall designate), shall assume and agree to pay, perform, fulfill and discharge, in accordance with their respective terms all Liabilities to or relating to Transferred Employees and
Delayed Transfer Employees, to the extent relating to, arising out of or resulting from employment with any member of the Dean Foods Group on or prior to the IPO (or, as applicable, the Transfer Date). 

(b) By Dean Foods. Notwithstanding Section 2.2(a), Dean Foods shall or shall cause the applicable Dean Foods Plan to agree to
retain, pay, perform, fulfill and discharge all Liabilities relating to any benefits accrued by a White Wave Employee or former employee of any WhiteWave Group member under any tax-qualified defined benefit pension plan sponsored by Dean Foods;
provided that Dean Foods shall not retain any Liabilities associated with a multiemployer pension plan (as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA) to which contributions are made under a WhiteWave CBA. 

Section 3.3. General Principles. 
 (a) Non-Termination of Employment or Benefits. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein or as otherwise required at applicable law, no provision of this Agreement or the Separation and
Distribution Agreement shall be construed to create any right, or accelerate any entitlement, to any compensation or benefit whatsoever on the part of any Combined Group Employee. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, except as may be
provided in an Individual Agreement, neither the IPO nor the Distribution shall cause any Combined Group Employee to be deemed to have incurred a termination of employment or shall have created any entitlement to any severance benefits or the
commencement of any other benefits under any Dean Foods Plan or any Individual Agreement. 
 (b) No Right to Continued
Employment. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall confer any right to continued employment on any Combined Group Employee. Except as specifically provided otherwise herein, this Agreement shall not limit the ability of any member of the Dean
Foods Group or the WhiteWave Group to change the position, compensation or benefits of any of its employees for performance-related, business or any other reason or require any such entity continue the employment of any such employee for any
particular period of time; provided that each member of the WhiteWave Group shall bear all Liability associated with any such termination of employment or modification of terms and conditions of employment with respect to any of its employees.

  
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 (c) Compensation and Benefits of Represented Employees. Notwithstanding anything else
contained in this Agreement to the contrary, the compensation, benefits, hours and terms and conditions of employment of WhiteWave Employees who are Represented Employees shall continue to be determined in accordance with the applicable WhiteWave
CBAs. 
 Section 3.4. Reimbursement. 
 (a) By the WhiteWave Companies. From time to time after the Distribution, the WhiteWave Companies shall promptly reimburse Dean Foods, but in no event more than fifteen business days after delivery
by Dean Foods of an invoice therefore containing reasonable substantiating documentation of such costs and expenses, for the cost of any obligations or Liabilities that Dean Foods elects to, or is compelled to, pay or otherwise satisfy, that are or
that pursuant to this Agreement have become, the responsibility of the WhiteWave Companies. 
 (b) By Dean Foods. From
time to time after the Distribution, Dean Foods shall promptly reimburse WhiteWave or WWF Operating Company, but in no event more than fifteen business days after delivery by WhiteWave or WWF Operating Company of an invoice therefore containing
reasonable substantiating documentation of such costs and expenses, for the cost of any obligations or Liabilities that WhiteWave or WWF Operating Company elects to, or is compelled to, pay or otherwise satisfy, that are or that pursuant to this
Agreement have become, the responsibility of Dean Foods. 
 ARTICLE IV. 

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS 
 Section 4.1. Continuity and Performance of Agreements. The unions representing any WhiteWave Employee will continue to represent those employees for purposes of collective bargaining with
WhiteWave, WWF Operating Company or any other member of the WhiteWave Group, and each collective bargaining agreement between WhiteWave, WWF Operating Company or any other member of the WhiteWave Group and any union representing its employees, shall
remain in effect (the “WhiteWave CBAs”). The Parties agree to take any and all actions reasonably necessary or appropriate, including the entry into an agreement of the type contemplated pursuant to Section 4204 of the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, to avoid the imposition of any withdrawal liability with respect to any multiemployer plan by reason of the Distribution. 

  
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 ARTICLE V. 
 WHITEWAVE PLANS GENERALLY 
 Section 5.1. Establishment of WhiteWave
Plans. 
 (a) Mirror Plans. WhiteWave or WWF Operating Company shall have adopted, or shall have caused to be
adopted, the following WhiteWave Mirror Plans, effective as of the Distribution Date: the WhiteWave Welfare Plans, WhiteWave 401(k) Plans and the WhiteWave Executive Severance Pay Plan. WhiteWave or WWF Operating Company shall become the plan
sponsor of, and from and after the date of adoption of each Plan, shall have sole responsibility for each WhiteWave Mirror Plan. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, each WhiteWave Mirror Plan shall be substantially similar in all material
respects to the corresponding Dean Foods Plan as in effect immediately prior to the adoption of such WhiteWave Mirror Plan (including, without limitation, the right of the sponsor and/or the participating employers to modify, amend, alter or
terminate any such Plan). 
 (b) Stand Alone WhiteWave Plans. To the extent that, at the IPO or the Distribution Date,
any member of the WhiteWave Group maintains any Plans and programs for its employees that are separate and distinct from the Dean Foods Plans, such WhiteWave Group member shall continue to maintain, operate and contribute to the separate Plans and
programs in accordance with their terms. 
 Section 5.2. Terms of Participation by WhiteWave Employees  

(a) Right and Entitlements. Subject to the express terms and conditions of this Agreement, each of the WhiteWave Mirror Plans
shall be, with respect to WhiteWave Employees who are participants in such Plan, the successors in interest to and shall recognize rights and entitlements under the corresponding Dean Foods Plans in effect as of the Close of the Distribution Date in
which such WhiteWave Employees participated prior to the Distribution Date (or Transfer Date, as the case may be). The Parties agree that WhiteWave Employees are not entitled to receive duplicative benefits for the same periods of service from the
Dean Foods Plans and the WhiteWave Plans. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 5.2(a) to the contrary (but subject to the provisions of Section 5.2(b)), if in the reasonable determination of Dean Foods requiring any WhiteWave Mirror
Plan to replicate each right or entitlement under the corresponding Dean Foods Plan (i) would result in an unreasonable administrative burden on, or in an unreasonable expense for, the WhiteWave Group, or (ii) conflict with
any provision of applicable law, the applicable WhiteWave Mirror Plan may provide the eligible WhiteWave Employees with rights and entitlements that are substantially comparable in the aggregate to those previously in effect under the corresponding
Dean Foods Plan. 
 (b) Service and Other Factors Determining Benefits. With respect to WhiteWave Employees, each
WhiteWave Mirror Plan shall provide that all service, all compensation, and all other factors affecting benefit determinations that, as of the Close of the Distribution Date, were recognized under the corresponding Dean Foods Plan (for

  
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periods immediately before the Close of the Distribution Date) shall receive full recognition, credit, and validity and be taken into account under such WhiteWave Mirror Plan to the same extent
as though arising under such WhiteWave Mirror Plan, except to the extent that duplication of benefits would result. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, in no event shall the crediting of service or any other action taken pursuant to
the immediately preceding sentence result in the duplication of benefits for any Combined Group Employee under any Dean Plan and any WhiteWave Plan. All beneficiary designations made by WhiteWave Employees under the corresponding Dean Foods Plan
shall be transferred to and be in full force and effect under the corresponding WhiteWave Mirror Plans until such beneficiary designations are replaced or revoked by the WhiteWave Employees who made the beneficiary designation. 

(c) Power to Amend. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 5.2, nothing in this Agreement other than those
provisions specifically set forth herein to the contrary shall preclude WhiteWave from amending, merging, modifying, terminating, eliminating, reducing, or otherwise altering in any respect any WhiteWave Plan, any benefit under any Plan or any
trust, insurance policy or funding vehicle related to any WhiteWave Plan. 
 ARTICLE VI. 

HEALTH AND WELFARE 
 Section 6.1. Assumption of Health and Welfare Plans. 
 (a)
Cessation of Coverage in Dean Foods Plans. Dean Foods maintains health and welfare plans for the benefit of eligible Combined Group Employees (the “Dean Foods Welfare Plans”). On the Distribution Date, each person who is a
WhiteWave Employee on such date shall cease to be covered under the Dean Foods Welfare Plans. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, with respect to any WhiteWave Employee who would not be eligible for coverage under any WhiteWave
Welfare Plan established under Section 6.2 below because such person is not actively at work on the Distribution Date due to any medical, sickness, accident leave or any other approved leave of absence, Dean Foods shall administer claims for
such persons on behalf of WhiteWave as though the relevant Dean Foods Welfare Plan had continued to be applicable (at the cost and expense of the WhiteWave Group member by which such person is or will be employed) until the earliest to occur of
(i) the date such person first resumes active employment with any member of the WhiteWave Group, (ii) the date such person ceases to be an employee of any member of the WhiteWave Group (including, without limitation, by reason of not
returning to work at the expiration of any approved leave); (iii) the date on which such approved leave of absence expires without such person returning to active employment or terminating employment and (iv) the date, if any, more than
six months following the Distribution Date that Dean Foods shall choose, in its discretion, to cease to provide such continued coverage upon not less than 90 days advance written notice to the WhiteWave Companies and the affected WhiteWave
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 (b) Claims Arising Prior to Distribution Date. On or after the Distribution Date, but
subject to the obligations of members of the WhiteWave Group pursuant to Section 2.2, Dean Foods or the Dean Foods Welfare Plans shall remain responsible for all Liabilities in respect of or relating to WhiteWave Employees or Former WhiteWave
Employees relating to claims or expenses incurred on or prior to the Distribution Date. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, to the extent that an eligible beneficiary under any such Dean Foods Welfare Plan commences a hospital confinement on or
prior to the Distribution Date that continues after the Distribution Date, all expenses related to such hospitalization (including any related services that are incurred during the period of the same continuous hospital confinement) shall be
considered part of the claim incurred on or prior to the Distribution Date. All other claims shall be deemed incurred on the date the actual expense is incurred. 
 (c) No Transfer of Assets Pertaining to Welfare Plans. Nothing in this Agreement shall require Dean Foods or any Dean Foods Welfare Plan to transfer assets or reserves with respect to the Dean
Foods Welfare Plans to WhiteWave or the WhiteWave Welfare Plans. 
 Section 6.2. Adoption of Health and Welfare
Plans. 
 (a) Comparable Terms. Effective as of the Close of the Distribution Date, WhiteWave shall adopt or shall
cause to be adopted for the benefit of eligible WhiteWave Employees, health and welfare plans, including, but not limited to, plans providing (i) executive long-term disability insurance and (ii) health, dental and life insurance benefits
(the “WhiteWave Welfare Plans”) that are substantially the same as the benefits provided under the corresponding Dean Foods Welfare Plan in which such individuals were participating immediately prior to the Distribution Date.
Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, WhiteWave may alter the terms and conditions of the WhiteWave Welfare Benefit Plans relative to the terms and conditions of the Dean Foods Welfare Benefit Plans to the extent that WhiteWave
reasonably determines in good faith that it can not provide substantially the same benefits at a commercially reasonable cost because (i) the number of persons who will be participants in the WhiteWave Welfare Plans is significantly smaller
than the number of participants in the Dean Foods Welfare Plans immediately prior to the Distribution Date, (ii) the WhiteWave Welfare Plan will be funded through an insured arrangement, while the corresponding Dean Foods Welfare Plan was
funded under a self-insured arrangement or (iii) of the inability of the WhiteWave Benefit Plans to procure on commercially reasonable terms contracts with the same third party vendors who assisted in administering the Dean Foods Welfare Plans.
For purposes of the immediately preceding sentence, an amount up to or equal to 

  
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105% of the costs incurred by Dean Foods in respect of the Dean Foods Welfare Plans, as determined on a per capita basis, immediately prior to the Distribution Date shall be deemed to be
commercially reasonable. In addition, WhiteWave shall retain the right to modify, amend, alter or terminate the terms of any WhiteWave Welfare Plan to the same extent that Dean Foods or another member of the Dean Foods Group had such rights under
the corresponding Dean Foods Welfare Plan. 
 (b) Terms of Participation in WhiteWave Welfare Plans. WhiteWave shall
cause the WhiteWave Welfare Plans to (i) waive all limitations as to preexisting conditions, exclusions, service conditions and waiting period limitations, and any evidence of insurability requirements applicable to any such WhiteWave Employees
other than such limitations, exclusions, and conditions that were in effect with respect to WhiteWave Employees as of the Distribution Date, in each case under the corresponding Dean Foods Welfare Plan and (ii) honor any deductibles,
out-of-pocket maximums and co-payments incurred by WhiteWave Employees under the corresponding Dean Foods Welfare Plan in satisfying the applicable deductibles, out-of-pocket expenses or co-payments under such Dean Foods Welfare Plan for the
calendar year in which the Distribution Date occurs. 
 Section 6.3. COBRA. As of the Close of the Distribution
Date, WhiteWave shall be responsible for administering compliance with the continuation coverage requirements for “group health plans” under Title X of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended
(“COBRA”), with respect to WhiteWave Employees, Former WhiteWave Employees and any of their dependents having rights derived from such WhiteWave Employees for the period after the Close of the Distribution Date. WhiteWave shall
assume any Liabilities of Dean Foods and the Dean Foods Plans to provide COBRA coverage to any WhiteWave Employee and any of their dependents who incurred a qualifying event under COBRA on or prior to the Distribution Date and who is still eligible
to receive such continuing coverage after the Distribution Date. 
 Section 6.4. Workers’ Compensation Claims.
Effective on the Distribution Date, WhiteWave shall assume responsibility for all Liabilities for WhiteWave Employees and Former WhiteWave Employees related to any and all workers’ compensation claims and coverage, whether arising under any law
of any state, territory, or possession of the U.S. or the District of Columbia and whether arising before or after the Distribution Date. Dean Foods shall be fully responsible for the administration of all such claims made prior to Distribution
Date, but the WhiteWave Companies shall reimburse and otherwise fully indemnify Dean Foods for all Liabilities related to such claims in respect of such WhiteWave Employees and Former WhiteWave Employees, including (i) the costs of
administering the plans, programs or arrangements under which any such Liabilities have accrued or otherwise arisen, (ii) paying benefits and settlements and (iii) establishing reserves, in each case as determined by Dean
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Any reimbursement amounts payable under this Section 6.4 shall be paid in accordance with the procedure set forth in Section 2.3. Dean Foods shall transfer to, or credit for the benefit
of, the WhiteWave Companies an amount equal to the value of any reserves (as determined by Dean Foods in its sole discretion) set aside by Dean Foods prior to the Distribution Date (including any reserves established under any contract providing
coverage against any such claims) for the payment of, or to meet the obligations in respect of, any such workers’ compensation benefits or obligations in respect of such WhiteWave Employees. With respect to any claim for Worker’s
Compensation or similar benefits by a WhiteWave Employee or Former WhiteWave Employee made after the Distribution Date, WhiteWave shall be solely responsible for such claim and for complying with all applicable laws with respect thereto. 

ARTICLE VII. 

PENSION PLANS 

Section 7.1. No Establishment of Defined Benefit Pension Plan. 

(a) No Establishment of Mirror Plans. Except as to any multiemployer pension plans (within the meaning of Section 3(37) of
ERISA) that are maintained or contributed to pursuant to a WhiteWave CBA, WhiteWave shall not be required to establish, maintain, administer or contribute to any defined benefit pension plan or related trust qualified under section 401(a) and
section 501(a) of the Code in connection with the Distribution. To the extent that any WhiteWave Employee or Former WhiteWave Employee has an accrued benefit under any existing defined benefit pension plan that is a Dean Foods Plan at the
Distribution Date, the obligations in respect of such Plan shall remain at Dean Foods under the provisions of the applicable Plan. No assets of any such defined benefit plan shall be transferred to WhiteWave, WWF Operating Company or any WhiteWave
Plan in connection with the Distribution. In no event shall any WhiteWave Employee accrue any additional benefits under such Plan following the Distribution Date (except for any subsidy related to the benefit accrued at the Distribution Date for
which such person may qualify under the terms of the applicable plan after the Distribution Date). For WhiteWave Employees covered by WhiteWave CBAs who may have been participating in any such defined benefit plan that is not a multiemployer plan at
the Distribution Date, WhiteWave shall take all such actions, if any, as are required to comply with the terms and conditions of the applicable collective bargaining agreement. 

(b) No New Standalone WhiteWave Defined Benefit Pension Plan. No member of the WhiteWave Group shall establish, adopt, contribute
to (other than as required under applicable law for and in accordance with Section 7.1(a) above with respect to any multiemployer pension plan) or otherwise become the sponsor of any defined benefit pension plan or related trust qualified under
section 401(a) and section 501(a) of the Code that could create any direct or indirect Liability for Dean Foods under Title IV of ERISA. 

  
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 ARTICLE VIII. 
 401(K) PLANS 
 Section 8.1. Establishment of the WhiteWave 401(k)
Plan. Prior to the Distribution Date, the WhiteWave Companies shall take any and all steps necessary or appropriate to establish one or more defined contribution plans and trusts to be effective as of the Distribution Date for the benefit of
hourly and salaried WhiteWave Employees (the “WhiteWave 401(k) Plans”). The WhiteWave 401(k) Plans shall have terms substantially similar in all material respects to the Dean Foods 401(k) Plan to which it most closely corresponds.
The WhiteWave Companies shall be responsible for taking or causing to be taken all necessary, reasonable, and appropriate action to establish, maintain, and administer the WhiteWave 401(k) Plans so that they qualify under Section 401(a) of the
Code and the related trusts thereunder are exempted from Federal income taxation under Section 501(a)(1) of the Code. For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Section 8.1 shall be construed to required WhiteWave to maintain any
investment option which the fiduciaries (as such term is defined in Section 3(21) of ERISA) of the WhiteWave 401(k) Plan deem to be imprudent or inappropriate for the WhiteWave 401(k) Plan or which cannot be maintained without commercially
unreasonable cost or administrative burden for the WhiteWave 401(k) Plan and its administrator. 
 Section 8.2.
Assumption of Liabilities and Transfer of Assets. 
 (a) Transfer of Liabilities. Effective as of the Distribution
Date, but subject to the asset transfer specified in Section 8.2(b) below, the WhiteWave 401(k) Plan shall assume and be solely responsible for all Liabilities for or relating to WhiteWave Employees and Former WhiteWave Employees under the Dean
Foods 401(k) Plan. The WhiteWave Companies shall be responsible for all ongoing rights of or relating to WhiteWave Employees and Former WhiteWave Employees for future participation (including the right to make contributions through payroll
deductions) in the WhiteWave 401(k) Plans. 
 (b) Trust to Trust Transfer. Effective as of the Distribution Date (or such
other date as may be agreed between the Parties), Dean Foods shall cause the account balances (including any outstanding loan balances) in the Dean Foods 401(k) Plan attributable to WhiteWave Employees and Former WhiteWave Employees to be
transferred in cash and in-kind (including, but not limited to, participant loans and company stock), to the WhiteWave 401(k) Plan, and WhiteWave or WWF Operating Company shall cause the WhiteWave 401(k) Plan to accept such transfer or accounts and
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all obligations of the Dean Foods 401(k) Plans relating to the accounts of WhiteWave Employees and Former WhiteWave Employees (to the extent those assets related to those accounts are actually
transferred from the Dean Foods 401(k) Plan). The transfer shall be conducted in accordance with Section 414(l) of the Code, Treasury Regulation Section 1.414(l)-1, and Section 208 of ERISA. Subject to the generally applicable
requirements of this Section 8.2(b), the named fiduciaries (as such term is defined in ERISA) of the WhiteWave 401(k) Plans and the Dean Foods 401(k) Plans shall cooperate in good faith to effect the transfers contemplated by this
Section 8.2(b) in an efficient and effective manner and in the best interests of participants and beneficiaries, including, but not limited to, determining whether and to what extent any investments held under the Dean Foods 401(k) Plan (other
than company stock or participant loans) shall be liquidated prior to the transfer date to enable the value of such investments to be transferred to the WhiteWave 401(k) Plan in cash or cash equivalents. 

ARTICLE IX. 

EQUITY BASED AND OTHER LONG-TERM INCENTIVE AWARDS 
 Section 9.1. General Treatment of Outstanding Awards; Adoption of New Stock Incentive Plan. 
 (a) Equity-Based Awards. No adjustments will be made in connection with the IPO to any stock based incentive compensation awards granted under the Dean Foods’ 2007 Stock Incentive Plan, the
Dean Foods 1997 Stock Option and Restricted Stock Plan or any other equity plan sponsored or maintained by Dean Foods (the “Dean Foods Equity Plans”). Effective on the Distribution Date, notwithstanding the provisions of
Section 2.1(a), all such stock based incentive compensation awards granted to WhiteWave Employees and Former WhiteWave Employees under the Dean Foods Equity Plans (the “Outstanding Awards”) shall be converted into incentive
compensation awards relating to WhiteWave Class A Common Stock (“Replacement Awards”) and shall be granted under the WhiteWave Foods Company 2012 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2012 SIP”). The Replacement Awards
shall have substantially equivalent terms as the Outstanding Awards. The required adjustments necessary to convert the Outstanding Awards into Replacement Awards shall be made at the direction of the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors
of Dean Foods in a manner intended to preserve the value of the Outstanding Awards by taking into account the relative values of the shares of Dean Foods Common Stock underlying the Outstanding Awards and the WhiteWave Common Stock underlying the
Replacement Equity Awards. 

  
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 (b) Cash Performance Units. Effective on consummation of the IPO, the cash
performance units granted (the “CPUs”) to WhiteWave Employees and Former WhiteWave Employees under the Dean Foods Performance Cash Plan that are related, in whole or in part, to the performance of Dean Foods after 2012 shall be cancelled,
subject to the requirement that payment be made in respect thereto, on a pro-rated basis, based on service completed and the level of achievement of the applicable performance objectives, in each case, through December 31, 2012, as determined
by Dean Foods. Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement to the contrary, the appropriate member of the Dean Foods Group shall be responsible for the payment of the portion of any such CPU payable to any Transferred Employee (or Delayed
Transfer Employee) related to service through the date the IPO is consummated (or, if applicable, the Transfer Date), with the remainder of such award being the responsibility of the member of the WhiteWave Group that employs such person.

 (c) Executive Retention Awards. Effective on consummation of the IPO, any awards under the Dean Foods Executive
Retention Plan held by WhiteWave Employees related to performance criteria to be achieved after 2012 shall be cancelled. No payment shall be made in respect of any such cancelled Executive Retention Plan award. Awards under the Dean Foods Executive
Retention Plan that are payable based upon the achievement of performance criteria through the end of 2012 (a “2012 Retention Award”) shall be made in accordance with its terms, treating employment with WhiteWave as though it were
employment with the Dean Foods Group. Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement to the contrary, the appropriate member of the Dean Foods Group shall be responsible for the payment of any portion of any such 2012 Retention Award payable to any
Transferred Employee (or Delayed Transfer Employee) related to service performed in 2012 through the date the IPO is consummated (or, if applicable, the Transfer Date), with the remainder of such award being the responsibility of the member of the
WhiteWave Group that employees such person. 
 (d) Dean Cash Awards. Effective on consummation of the IPO, any Dean Cash
Awards held by WhiteWave Employees that are related to the service to be performed, in whole or in part, after 2012 (a (“Pro-Rated Dean Cash Award”) shall be cancelled, subject to payment, on a pro-rated basis, of the portion of such Dean
Cash Award related to service performed through the end of 2012. Any Dean Cash Awards that are payable based solely upon service through the end of 2012 (a “2012 Dean Cash Award”) shall be made in accordance with its terms, treating
employment with WhiteWave as though it were employment with the Dean Foods Group. Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement to the contrary, the appropriate member of the Dean Foods Group shall be responsible for the payment of any portion of
any such Pro-Rated Dean Cash Award or 2012 Dean Cash Award payable to any Transferred Employee (or Delayed Transfer Employee) related to service performed in 2012 through the date the IPO is consummated (or, if applicable, the Transfer Date), with
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 (e) Adoption of WhiteWave Stock Incentive Plan. In connection with the IPO, WhiteWave
shall adopt the 2012 SIP for purposes of awarding certain WhiteWave employees, officers and non-employee directors equity-based compensation on the terms and conditions set forth in the 2012 SIP. The award agreement related to any award granted by
WhiteWave to any WhiteWave Employee under the 2012 SIP at or about the time of the IPO shall require any recipient thereof who held CPUs, Retention Awards and/or Dean Cash Awards immediately prior to the IPO to consent to the cancellation of the
applicable awards in accordance with the preceding provisions of this Article IX. 
 ARTICLE X. 

SHORT TERM INCENTIVES 
 Section 10.1. Incentive Plans. WhiteWave, WWF Operating Company or another member of the WhiteWave Group shall be responsible for all Liabilities relating to WhiteWave Employees and Former
WhiteWave Employees in respect of any short term incentive plan related to their services for any member of the WhiteWave Group (or, with respect to Transferred Employees and Deferred Transferred Employees, for services after the IPO or, if
applicable, the Transfer Date). Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Transferred Employee (or Delayed Transfer Employee), the appropriate member of the Dean Foods Group shall be responsible for, or shall reimburse the appropriate
member of the WhiteWave Group for, the payment any portion of any short-term incentive plan payment payable to any Transferred Employee (or Delayed Transfer Employee) related to service performed in the applicable performance period through the date
the IPO is consummated (or, if applicable, the Transfer Date). 
 ARTICLE XI. 

DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLANS 
 Section 11.1. Establishment of the WhiteWave EDCP. Prior to the Distribution Date, WhiteWave shall take steps to establish a nonqualified executive deferred compensation plan to be effective
as of the Distribution Date for the benefit of WhiteWave Employees (the “WhiteWave EDCP”) that is substantially similar to the Dean Foods EDCP. WhiteWave shall be responsible for taking or causing to be taken all necessary,
reasonable, and appropriate action to establish, maintain, and administer the WhiteWave EDCP in a manner consistent with the provisions of Section 409A of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder. 

Section 11.2. Establishment of the WhiteWave SERP. Prior to the Distribution Date, WhiteWave shall take steps to establish a
supplemental executive retirement plan to be effective as of the Distribution Date for the benefit of WhiteWave Employees (the “WhiteWave SERP”) that is substantially similar to the Dean Foods SERP. WhiteWave

  
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shall be responsible for taking or causing to be taken all necessary, reasonable, and appropriate action to establish, maintain, and administer the WhiteWave SERP in a manner consistent with the
provisions of Section 409A of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder. 
 Section 11.3. Liabilities
Under the Dean Foods EDCP and Dean Foods SERP. All Liabilities accrued under the Dean Foods EDCP and Dean Foods SERP related to WhiteWave Employees and Former WhiteWave Employees, including Transferred Employees and Delayed Transfer Employees,
shall be the sole responsibility of the member of the WhiteWave Group which employed any such WhiteWave Employee at the Distribution Date or that last employed any Former WhiteWave Employee. All distributions from the WhiteWave EDCP and the
WhiteWave SERP shall, to the extent applicable, be administered in a manner consistent with the provisions of Section 409A of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder. 

Section 11.4. Asset Transfer. As soon as reasonably practicable after the Distribution Date, Dean Foods shall transfer to WWF
Operating Company assets in such form as Dean Foods shall reasonably determine equal to the product of (i) the value as of the Distribution Date of any reserves established by Dean Foods to assist it in satisfying the liabilities under the Dean
Foods EDCP and the Dean Foods SERP multiplied by (ii) a fraction, the numerator of which is the estimated liabilities under of the applicable Plan (i.e., the Dean Foods EDCP or the Dean Foods SERP) in respect of WhiteWave Employees or Former
WhiteWave Employees and the denominator of which is the estimated aggregate liabilities to all participants under the applicable Plan. All valuations or estimations necessary or appropriate to determine the asset transfer described in this
Section 11.4 shall be made by Dean Foods in good faith. 
 ARTICLE XII. 

EXECUTIVE SEVERANCE PLAN AND 
 CHANGE IN CONTROL AGREEMENTS 
 Section 12.1. Establishment of the
WhiteWave Executive Severance Pay Plan. Prior to the Distribution Date, the WhiteWave Companies shall take all steps necessary or appropriate to establish for the benefit of WhiteWave Employees who had been eligible to participate in the Dean
Foods Executive Severance Plan immediately prior to the Distribution Date an executive severance pay plan that is substantially similar to the Dean Foods Executive Severance Pay Plan (the “WhiteWave Executive Severance Pay Plan”),
to be effective as of the Distribution Date. 
 Section 12.2. Change in Control Agreements. In the event that a
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Control agreements that have been implemented by Dean Foods, the appropriate member of the WhiteWave Group shall be responsible for the payment of and shall pay any benefits that become payable
under the terms of any such agreement (other than with respect to any awards related to the common stock of Dean Foods outstanding under the Dean Foods Equity Plan, which shall remain the responsibility of Dean Foods) to any WhiteWave Employee who
is a party to any such agreement, including, without limitation, the Specified Officers. 
 ARTICLE XIII. 

GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE 
 Section 13.1. Sharing of Information. Subject to any consents required or any other restrictions imposed at law, each Party shall each provide to any other Party and its agents and vendors all
information that such other Party may reasonably request to enable the requesting party to administer efficiently and accurately each of its Plans and to determine the scope of, and to fulfill, its obligations under this Agreement. WhiteWave shall
cause each member of the WhiteWave Group to provide Dean Foods or its designees, on a timely basis, such information including, without limitation, dates of termination, length of service and last known addresses, and other assistance as it or they
shall reasonably request from time to time to administer its on-going obligations under this Agreement with respect to WhiteWave Employees and Former WhiteWave Employees. Any information shared or exchanged pursuant to this Agreement shall be kept
confidential by the Parties and used only for and to the extent necessary to establish, maintain and administer the plans, programs and agreements as contemplated by this Agreement. 

Section 13.2. Cooperation. 
 (a) On-Going Plan Administration. Dean Foods may from time to time establish reasonable administrative guidelines or procedures to be followed by the appropriate members of the WhiteWave Group to
facilitate the operation of any Dean Food Plan under which there are continuing obligations to WhiteWave Employees or Former WhiteWave Employees following the Distribution Date. 

(b) General Corporation. Each of the Parties hereto will use its commercially reasonable efforts to promptly take, or cause to be
taken, any and all actions and to do, or cause to be done, any and all things necessary, proper and advisable (including, without limitation, any actions required under applicable laws and regulations) to fulfill their respective duties obligations
contemplated by this Agreement. The actions described in the immediately preceding sentence shall include, without limitation, adopting plans or plan amendments and the payment of compensation due to any Dean Foods Employee, any WhiteWave Employee
or any Former WhiteWave Employee. Each of the Parties hereto shall cooperate fully on any issue relating to the duties and obligations contemplated by this Agreement for which the other Party seeks a determination letter or any other filing,
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 Section 13.3. Consent of Third Parties. If any provision of this Agreement is
dependent on the consent of any third party (such as a vendor) and such consent is withheld, the Parties shall use their reasonable best efforts to implement the applicable provisions of this Agreement to the full extent practicable. If any
provision of this Agreement cannot be implemented due to the failure of such third party to consent, the Parties shall negotiate in good faith to implement the provision in a mutually satisfactory manner. The phrase “reasonable best
efforts” as used in this Agreement shall not be construed to require the incurrence of any non-routine or unreasonable expense or liability or the waiver of any right. 
 Section 13.4. Survival. This Agreement shall survive the Distribution Date. 
 Section 13.5. Interpretation. Words in the singular shall be held to include the plural and vice versa and words of one gender shall be held to include the other genders as the context
requires. The terms “hereof,” “herein,” and “herewith” and words of similar import shall, unless otherwise stated, be construed to refer to this Agreement as a whole (including all Exhibits hereto) and not to any
particular provision of this Agreement. The word “including” and words of similar import when used in this Agreement shall mean “including, without limitation,” unless the context otherwise requires or unless otherwise specified.
The word “or” shall not be exclusive. 
 Section 13.6. No Third Party Beneficiaries. 

(a) Nothing in this Agreement shall confer upon any person (nor any beneficiary thereof) any rights under or with respect to any plan,
program or arrangement described in or contemplated by this Agreement and each person (and any beneficiary thereof) shall be entitled to look only to the express terms of any such plan, program or arrangement for his or her rights thereunder.

 (b) Nothing in this Agreement shall create any right of any Person to object or to refuse to assent to WhiteWave’s
assumption of, succession to or creation of any Individual Agreement, or other agreement or plan, program or arrangement relating to employment, employment separation, severance or employee benefits, nor shall this Agreement be construed as
recognizing that any such rights exist. 
 (c) Nothing in this Agreement shall amend or shall be construed to amend any plan,
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 Section 13.7. Notices. 

(a) Any notice, demand, claim, or other communication under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed given to a Party when
(a) delivered to the appropriate address by hand or by nationally recognized overnight courier services (costs prepaid); (b) sent by facsimile with conformation or transmission; (c) received or rejected by the addressee, if sent by
certified mail, return receipt requested, in each case to the following addresses and facsimile numbers and marked to the attention of the person designated below (or to such other address, facsimile number or person as a party may designate by
notice to the other Parties: 
 (b) If to Dean Foods, to: 

Dean Foods Company 
 2711 North Haskell Ave., Suite 3400 
 Dallas, TX 75204 

Attn: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and 
          Executive Vice President, General Counsel 
 (c) If to WhiteWave, to: 
 The WhiteWave Foods Company 

2711 North Haskell Ave., Suite 3400 
 Dallas, TX 75204 
 Attn: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and 

         Executive Vice President, General Counsel 

Section 13.8. Governing Law; Jurisdiction. This Agreement and the legal relations between the parties hereto shall be
governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to the conflict of laws rules thereof to the extent such rules would require the application of the law of another jurisdiction. The state or federal
courts located within Dallas, Texas shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any and all disputes between the parties hereto, whether in law or equity, arising out of or relating to this agreement and the agreements, instruments and documents
contemplated hereby and the parties consent to and agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of such courts. Each of the Parties hereby waives and agrees not to assert in any such dispute, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any
claim that (i) such Party is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of such courts, (ii) such party and such Party’s property is immune from any legal process issued by such courts or (iii) any litigation or other proceeding
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 Section 13.9. Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH PARTY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY
WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT, ANY OTHER RELATED DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY.

 Section 13.10. Specific Performance. The parties hereto agree that irreparable damage would occur in the event
any provision of this Agreement was not performed in accordance with the terms hereof and that, after the Distribution, the parties shall be entitled to specific performance of the terms hereof to the extent such terms impose obligations that are to
be performed after the Distribution, in addition to any other remedy at law or in equity. 
 Section 13.11. No
Assignment; No Amendment; Counterparts. This Agreement may not be assigned by either Party (except by operation of law) without the written consent of the other, and shall bind and inure to the benefit of the Parties hereto and their respective
successors and permitted assignees. This Agreement may not be amended or supplemented except by an agreement in writing signed by Dean Foods and WhiteWave. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original and
all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. 
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Party has caused its duly authorized officer to execute this
Agreement, as of the date first written above. 
  

			
	DEAN FOODS COMPANY
	
	 /s/ Timothy A.
Smith            

	By:	 	Timothy A. Smith
	Its:	 	Treasurer
	
	THE WHITEWAVE FOODS COMPANY
	
	 /s/ Kelly J.
Haecker            

	By:	 	Kelly J. Haecker
	Its:	 	Senior Vice President, Finance,and Chief Financial Officer
	
	WWF OPERATING COMPANY
	
	 /s/ Kelly J.
Haecker            

	By:	 	Kelly J. Haecker
	Its:	 	Senior Vice President, Finance, and Chief Financial Officer

 Employee Matters Agreement 

 Schedule A 
 Transferred Employees 
  

	1.	Gregg Engles 

  

	2.	Thomas Zanetich 

  

	3.	Edward Fugger 

  

	4.	Frank Caliri 

  

	5.	Dave Oldani 

  

	6.	Shan Luton 

  

	7.	April Burke 

  

	8.	Such other employees as may be agreed to by the parties in writing.Exhibit 10.5

 Exhibit 10.5 
 REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT 
 This REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT (this
“Agreement”), is made and entered into as of October 25, 2012, between Dean Foods Company, a Delaware corporation (“Dean Foods”), and The WhiteWave Foods Company, a Delaware corporation (the
“Company”). 
 WHEREAS, the Company is offering and selling to the public (the “IPO”) by means
of a Registration Statement (File No. 333-183112) initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on Form S-1 on August 7, 2012 (the “Registration Statement”) shares of Class A
common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company (the “Class A Common Stock,” and together with the Class B Common Stock, the “Common Stock”); 

WHEREAS, in connection with the IPO, Dean Foods and the Company have entered into a Separation and Distribution Agreement of even date
herewith (the “Separation and Distribution Agreement”) and certain other ancillary agreements; 
 WHEREAS, Dean
Foods currently owns all of the issued and outstanding shares of the Class B common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company (the “Class B Common Stock”); 

WHEREAS, each share of Class B Common Stock is convertible into one share of Class A Common Stock, on the terms and subject to the
conditions set forth in the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation; 
 WHEREAS, Dean Foods intends to
preserve its ability to evaluate strategic options with respect to its remaining ownership interest in the Company after the IPO consistent with its rights and obligations under the Separation and Distribution Agreement, including pursuant to
Section 4.6 thereunder after the Distribution Date (as defined in the Separation and Distribution Agreement); and 

WHEREAS, Dean Foods and the Company desire to make certain arrangements to provide Dean Foods with registration rights with respect to
the shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon conversion of Class B Common Stock that it holds; 
 NOW THEREFORE, in
consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties hereby agree as
follows: 
 Section 1. Effectiveness of Agreement 

1.1 Effective Time. This Agreement shall become effective upon the IPO Settlement (as defined in the Separation and Distribution
Agreement) (the “Effective Time”). 

  
 Registration
Rights Agreement 

 1.2 Shares Covered. This Agreement covers all shares of Class A Common Stock
issuable upon conversion of all shares of Class B Common Stock that are beneficially owned by Dean Foods as of the Effective Time (the “Shares”). The Shares shall include any securities issued or issuable with respect to the Shares
by way of a stock dividend or a stock split or in connection with a combination of shares, recapitalization, merger, consolidation or other reorganization. 
 Dean Foods and any Permitted Transferees (as defined in Section 2.5) are each referred to herein as a “Holder” and collectively as the “Holders” and the Holders of
Shares proposed to be included in any registration under this Agreement are each referred to herein as a “Selling Holder” and collectively as the “Selling Holders.” 

Section 2. Demand Registration. 
 2.1 Notice. Upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, upon written notice of any Holder requesting that the Company effect the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the “Securities Act”), of any or all of the Shares held by it, which notice shall specify the intended method or methods of disposition of such Shares (which methods may include, without limitation, a Shelf Registration (as
such term is defined in Section 2.6)), the Company will, within five days of receipt of such notice from any Holder, give written notice of the proposed registration to all other Holders, if any, and will use its commercially reasonable
efforts to effect (at the earliest reasonable date) the registration under the Securities Act of such Shares (and the Shares of any other Holders joining in such request as are specified in a written notice received by the Company within 15 days
after receipt of the Company’s written notice of the proposed registration) for disposition in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition stated in such request (each registration request pursuant to this
Section 2.1 is sometimes referred to herein as a “Demand Registration”); provided, however, that: 
 (a) the Company shall not be obligated to effect registration with respect to Shares pursuant to this Section 2 (i) in violation of Section 4(h) of the underwriting agreement entered into
in connection with the IPO or (ii) within 90 days after the effective date of a previous registration, other than a Shelf Registration, effected with respect to Shares pursuant to this Section 2; 

(b) if at the time a Demand Registration is requested pursuant to this Section 2, the Company determines in the good faith judgment
of the general counsel of the Company, to be confirmed within 15 days by the Company’s board of directors (the “Board”), that such registration would (because of the existence of, or in anticipation of, any acquisition,
divestiture, or financing activity, or the unavailability for reasons beyond the Company’s reasonable control of any required financial statements, or any other event or condition of similar significance to the Company) be significantly
disadvantageous (a “Disadvantageous Condition”) to the Company for such registration to be filed and become effective, and setting forth the general reasons for such determination, the Company may postpone the filing or
effectiveness (but not the preparation) of such registration until the earlier of (i) 15 business days after the date on which the Disadvantageous Condition no longer exists, or (ii) 75 days after the Company makes such determination;
provided, however, that the Company may delay a Demand Registration pursuant to this Section 2.1(b) no more than once during the 12 months following the Distribution Date and no more than once during any six-month period
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 (c) the number of the Shares originally requested to be registered pursuant to any
registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 shall cover Shares with an aggregate Fair Market Value as of the date of the notice delivered to the Company pursuant to Section 2.1 of at least $75 million (for purposes of this
Agreement, “Fair Market Value” shall mean, as of any date, the closing price per share of the Class A Common Stock on The New York Stock Exchange on the trading day immediately preceding such date); and 

(d) if the intended method of disposition is a Demand Registration and is an underwritten offering and the managing underwriters advise
the Company in writing that in their opinion the number of Shares requested to be included in such offering exceeds the number of Shares which can be sold in an orderly manner in such offering within a price range acceptable to the Holders of a
majority of the Shares initially requesting such registration or without materially adversely affecting the market for the Common Stock, the Company shall include in such registration the number of Shares requested by Holders of a majority of the
Shares to be included therein which, in the opinion of such Holders based upon advice of the managing underwriters, can be sold in an orderly manner within the price range of such offering and without materially adversely affecting the market for
the Class A Common Stock, pro rata among the respective Holders thereof on the basis of the amount of Shares owned by each Holder requesting inclusion of Shares in such registration. 

2.2 Registration Expenses. All Registration Expenses (as defined in Section 8) for any registration requested pursuant to
this Section 2 (including any registration that is delayed or withdrawn) shall be paid by the Company; provided, however that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Selling Holders shall pay the filing fees incident to securing any
required review by The New York Stock Exchange and any other securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then traded or listed of the terms of the sale of the Shares to be disposed of and the trading or listing of all such Shares on each such
exchange in connection with any registration requested pursuant to this Section 2 (including any registration that is delayed or withdrawn); provided further, however, that all expenses of a Demand Registration made in connection
with a Distribution (as defined in the Separation and Distribution Agreement) shall be borne by the Holder or Holders. 
 2.3
Selection of Professionals. The Holders of a majority of the Shares included in any Demand Registration shall have the right to select the investment banker(s) and manager(s) to underwrite or otherwise administer the offering, provided
that, such investment banker(s) and managers(s) are of national standing and reputation (the “Investment Bankers”). The Holders of a majority of the Shares included in any Demand Registration shall have the right to select the
financial printer and counsel for the Selling Holders. The Company shall select its own outside counsel and independent auditors. 
 2.4 Third Person Shares. The Company shall have the right to cause the registration of securities for sale for the account of any Person (as defined in Section 6(e)) (including the
Company) other than the Selling Holders (the “Third Person Shares”) in any registration of the Shares requested pursuant to this Section 2 so long as the Third Person Shares are disposed of in accordance with the
intended method or methods of disposition requested pursuant to this Section 2. 

  
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 If a Demand Registration in which the Company proposes to include Third Person Shares is an
underwritten offering and the managing underwriters advise the Company in writing that in their opinion the number of Shares and Third Person Shares requested to be included in such offering exceeds the number of Shares and Third Person Shares which
can be sold in an orderly manner in such offering within a price range acceptable to the Holders of a majority of the Shares initially requesting such registration or without materially adversely affecting the market for the Common Stock (the
“Maximum Number”), the Company shall not include in such registration any Third Person Shares unless all of the Shares initially requested to be included therein are so included, and then only to the extent of the Maximum Number.

 2.5 Permitted Transferees. As used in this Agreement, “Permitted Transferees” shall mean any
transferee, whether direct or indirect, of Shares that (i) (x) as of the time of transfer of the Shares to such transferee is, and as of immediately prior to the sale of Shares pursuant to the Demand Registration or Piggyback Registration,
as the case may be, will be, a Dean Foods Group Member (as defined in the Separation and Distribution Agreement) or (y) is a third-party lender participating in an Equity for Debt Exchange (as defined in the Separation and Distribution
Agreement) (or an Affiliate of such third-party lender) and (ii) is designated by Dean Foods (or a subsequent Holder) in a written notice to the Company as provided for in Section 9.3. Any Permitted Transferees of the Shares shall
be subject to and bound by all of the terms and conditions herein applicable to Holders. The notice required by this Section 2.5 shall be signed by both the transferring Holder and the Permitted Transferees so designated and shall
include an undertaking by the Permitted Transferees to comply with the terms and conditions of this Agreement applicable to Holders. 
 2.6 Shelf Registration; Distribution. With respect to any Demand Registration, the requesting Holders may, but shall not be required to, request the Company to effect a registration of the Shares
(a) under a registration statement pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act (or any successor rule) (a “Shelf Registration”); or (b) in the form of a Distribution as defined in the Separation and Distribution
Agreement. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to comply with any such request. 
 2.7 SEC Form;
Information. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause Demand Registrations to be registered on Form S-3 (or any successor form), and if the Company is not then eligible under the Securities Act to use Form S-3, such
Demand Registrations shall be registered on Form S-1 (or any successor form). The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to become eligible to use Form S-3 and, after becoming eligible to use Form S-3, shall use its commercially
reasonable efforts to remain so eligible. All such Demand Registrations shall comply with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the SEC’s rules and regulations thereunder, and, together with each prospectus included, filed or
otherwise furnished by the Company in connection therewith, shall not contain any untrue statement of material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. The
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reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K (or any successor forms), and all material required to be filed, pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange
Act”), to the extent that such filing shall be a condition to the initial filing or continued use or effectiveness of any Demand Registration or to the extent required to enable any Holder to sell Shares without registration under the
Securities Act within the limitation of the exemptions provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act (or any similar rule or regulation hereafter promulgated by the SEC). From and after the date hereof through the earlier of the expiration or
termination of this Agreement or the date upon which the Dean Foods Group (as defined in the Separation and Distribution Agreement) ceases to own any Shares, the Company shall forthwith upon written request furnish any Holder (i) a written
statement by the Company as to whether it has complied with such requirements and, if not, the specifics thereof, (ii) a copy of the most recent annual or quarterly report of the Company, and (iii) such other reports and documents filed by
the Company with the SEC as such Holder may reasonably request in availing itself of an exemption for the sale of Shares without registration under the Securities Act. 
 2.8 Other Registration Rights. The Company shall not grant to any Persons the right to request the Company to register any equity securities of the Company, or any securities convertible or
exchangeable into or exercisable for such securities, whether pursuant to “demand,” “piggyback” or other rights, unless such rights are subject and subordinate to the rights of the Holders under this Agreement until at least the
date that is 18 months after the Distribution Date. 
 2.9 Withdrawal. The Holders may withdraw a Demand Registration at
any time and under any circumstances. 
 Section 3. Piggyback Registrations. 

3.1 Notice and Registration. If the Company proposes to register any of its securities for public sale under the Securities Act
(whether proposed to be offered for sale by the Company or any other Person), on a form and in a manner that would permit registration of the Shares for sale to the public under the Securities Act (a “Piggyback Registration”), it
will give at least 20 days’ advance written notice to the Holders of its intention to do so, and upon the written request of any or all of the Holders delivered to the Company within 15 days after the giving of any such notice (which request
shall specify the Shares intended to be disposed of by such Holders), the Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect, in connection with the registration of such other securities, the registration under the Securities Act of all
of the Shares which the Company has been so requested to register by such Holders (which shall then become Selling Holders), to the extent required to permit the disposition (in accordance with the same method of disposition as the Company proposes
to use to dispose of the other securities) of the Shares to be so registered; provided, however, that: 
 (a) if,
at any time after giving such written notice of its intention to register any of its other securities and prior to the effective date of the registration statement filed in connection with such registration, the Company shall determine for any
reason not to register such other securities, the Company may, at its election, give written notice of such determination to the Selling Holders (or, if prior to delivery of the Holders’ written request described above in this

  
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Section 3.1, the Holders) and thereupon the Company shall be relieved of its obligation to register such Shares in connection with the registration of such other securities (but not
from its obligation to pay Registration Expenses to the extent incurred in connection therewith as provided in Section 3.3), without prejudice, however, to the rights (if any) of any Selling Holders immediately to request (subject to the
terms and conditions of Section 2) that such registration be effected as a registration under Section 2 or to include such Shares in any subsequent Piggyback Registration pursuant to this Section 3; 

(b) the Company shall not be required to effect any registration of the Shares under this Section 3 incidental to the
registration of any of its securities (i) on Form S-4 or S-8 or any successor or similar forms, (ii) relating to equity securities issuable upon exercise of employee stock or similar options or in connection with any employee benefit or
similar plan of the Company, or (iii) in connection with an acquisition of, or an investment in, another entity by the Company; 
 (c) if a Piggyback Registration is an underwritten registration on behalf of the Company (whether or not selling security holders are included therein) and the managing underwriters advise the Company in
writing that in their opinion the number of securities requested to be included in such registration exceeds the number that can be sold in such offering without materially adversely affecting the marketability of the offering or the market for the
Common Stock (the “Piggyback Maximum Number”), the Company shall include the following securities in such registration up to the Piggyback Maximum Number and in accordance with the following priorities: (i) until the date that
is 18 months after the Distribution Date, (x) first, the securities the Company proposes to sell, (y) second, up to the number of Shares requested to be included in such registration, pro rata among the Selling Holders of such Shares on
the basis of the number of Shares owned by each such Selling Holder, and (z) third, up to the number of any other securities requested to be included in such registration and (ii) after the date that is 18 months after the Distribution
Date, (x) first, the securities the Company proposes to sell, and (y) second, up to the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock requested to be included in such registration by the Selling Holders and other Persons holding shares of
Common Stock entitled to request that such shares be included in such registration (each a “Requesting Party”), pro rata among the Selling Holders and the Requesting Parties on the basis of the number of shares of Common Stock owned
by each such Selling Holder or Requesting Party; 
 (d) no registration of the Shares effected under this Section 3
shall relieve the Company of its obligation to effect a registration of Shares pursuant to Section 2; and 
 (e) any
Selling Holder may withdraw any or all of its Shares from a Piggyback Registration at any time under any circumstances. 
 3.2
Selection of Professionals. If any Piggyback Registration is an underwritten offering, the Company shall select the Investment Bankers to administer any such underwritten offering. The Holders of a majority of the Shares included in any such
Piggyback Registration shall have the right to select counsel for the Selling Holders. The Company shall select its own outside counsel and independent auditors. 

  
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 3.3 Registration Expenses. The Company will pay all of the Registration Expenses in
connection with any registration pursuant to this Section 3. 
 Section 4. Registration Procedures. 

4.1 Registration and Qualification. If and whenever the Company is required to use its commercially reasonable efforts to effect
the registration of any of the Shares under the Securities Act as provided in Sections 2 and 3, including an underwritten offering pursuant to a Shelf Registration, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to: 

(a) as promptly as practicable (and, in any event within 30 days (in the case of a registration statement on Form S-3) or 90 days (in the
case of all other registration statements)) after the date of any demand under Section 2, prepare and file with the SEC a registration statement with respect to such Shares and cause such registration statement to become effective as soon as
practicable after the initial filing thereof (provided that, before filing a registration statement or prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, the Company shall furnish to the Selling Holders and the underwriters or dealer managers, if
any, copies of all such documents proposed to be filed (which documents shall be subject to the review and comment of such counsel) and the Company shall not file with the SEC any registration statement or prospectus or amendments or supplements
thereto to which the Selling Holders or the underwriters or dealer managers, if any, shall reasonably object); 
 (b) except in
the case of a Shelf Registration effected on Form S-3, prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and supplements to such registration statement and the prospectus used in connection therewith as may be necessary to keep such registration
statement effective and to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act with respect to the disposition of all of the Shares until the earlier of (i) such time as all of such Shares have been disposed of in accordance with the intended
methods of disposition set forth in such registration statement or (ii) the expiration of 60 days after such registration statement becomes effective, plus the number of days that any filing or effectiveness has been delayed under
Section 2.1(b); 
 (c) in the case of a Shelf Registration effected on Form S-3, prepare and file with the SEC such
amendments and supplements to such registration statement and the prospectus used in connection therewith as may be necessary to keep such registration statement effective and to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act with respect to the
disposition of all Shares subject thereto for a period ending on the earlier of (i) 36 months after the effective date of such registration statement plus the number of days that any filing or effectiveness has been delayed under
Section 2.1(b) and/or suspended under Section 4.3(a), and (ii) the date on which all the Shares subject thereto have been sold pursuant to such registration statement (the “Shelf Effective Period”);

 (d) furnish to the Selling Holders and to any underwriter(s) such number of conformed copies of such registration statement
and of each such amendment and supplement thereto (in each case including all exhibits), such number of copies of the prospectus included in such registration statement (including each preliminary prospectus and any summary prospectus), in
conformity with the requirements of the Securities Act, such documents incorporated by reference in such registration statement or prospectus and such other documents as the Selling Holders or such underwriter(s) may reasonably request; 

  
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 (e) register or qualify all of the Shares covered by such registration statement under such
other securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as the Selling Holders or any underwriter of such Shares shall reasonably request, and do any and all other acts and things which may be necessary or advisable to enable the Selling Holders or
any underwriter to consummate the disposition in such jurisdictions of the Shares covered by such registration statement, except that the Company shall not for any such purpose be required to qualify generally to do business as a foreign corporation
in any jurisdiction where it is not so qualified, or to subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction, or to consent to general service of process in any such jurisdiction; 

(f) (i) furnish to the Selling Holders, addressed to them, an opinion of counsel for the Company and (ii) furnish to the Selling
Holders, addressed to them, a “cold comfort” letter signed by the independent public accountants who have certified the Company’s financial statements included in such registration statement, covering substantially the same matters
with respect to such registration statement (and the prospectus included therein) and, in the case of such accountants’ letter, with respect to events subsequent to the date of such financial statements, as are customarily covered in opinions
of issuer’s counsel and in accountants’ letters delivered to underwriters in underwritten public offerings of securities and such other matters as the Selling Holders may reasonably request, in each case, in form and substance and as of
the dates reasonably satisfactory to the Selling Holders; 
 (g) notify the Selling Holders and the managing underwriter(s), if
any, and (if requested) confirm such advice in writing and provide copies of the relevant documents, as soon as reasonably practicable after notice thereof is received by the Company (A) when the applicable registration statement or any
amendment thereto has been filed or becomes effective, when the applicable prospectus or any amendment or supplement to such prospectus has been filed, (B) of any comments (written or oral) by the SEC or any request by the SEC or any other
federal or state governmental authority (written or oral) for amendments or supplements to such registration statement or such prospectus or for additional information, (C) of the issuance by the SEC of any stop order suspending the
effectiveness of such registration statement or any order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary or final prospectus or the initiation or threatening of any proceedings for such purposes, (D) if, at any time, the representations
and warranties of the Company in any applicable underwriting agreement or dealer manager agreement cease to be true and correct and in all material respects, and (E) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the
suspension of the qualification of the Shares for offering or sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose; 
 (h) immediately notify the Selling Holders and the managing underwriter(s), if any, at any time when a prospectus relating to a registration pursuant to Section 2 or 3 is required to be
delivered under the Securities Act, of the happening of any event as a result of which the prospectus included in such registration statement, as then in effect, includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact
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make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and at the request of the Selling Holders or the underwriter(s) prepare and file with the
SEC (and furnish to the Selling Holders and the underwriter(s) or dealer manager(s) a reasonable number of copies of) a supplement to or an amendment of such prospectus as may be necessary so that, as thereafter delivered to the purchasers of such
Shares, such prospectus shall not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not
misleading; 
 (i) permit any Selling Holder(s) comprising holders of a majority of the Shares to be included in such
registration, in their sole and exclusive judgment, to participate in the preparation of such registration or comparable statement (including but not limited to having prompt access to any SEC comment letters or other communications in connection
with such registration and the Company’s responses thereto) and to require the insertion therein of material, furnished to the Company in writing, which in the reasonable judgment of such Selling Holder(s) and their counsel should be included;

 (j) in the event of the issuance of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of a registration statement, or of any order
suspending or preventing the use of any related prospectus or suspending the qualification of any securities included in such registration statement for sale in any jurisdiction, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts promptly to obtain
the withdrawal of such order; 
 (k) in the case of a Demand Registration relating to an underwritten offering, cause the senior
executive officers of the Company, as selected by mutual agreement of the Company and the Selling Holders to facilitate, cooperate with, and participate in each proposed offering contemplated herein and customary selling efforts related thereto,
including participation of such officers in road show presentations, except to the extent that such participation materially interferes with the management of the Company’s business; provided that the effectiveness period for any Demand
Registration shall be increased on a day-for-day basis by the period of time that management cannot participate; and 
 (l)
cause the Shares covered by such registration statement to be registered with or approved by such other government agencies or authorities as may be necessary to enable the sellers thereof to consummate the disposition of such Shares. 

The Company may require the Selling Holders to furnish the Company with such information regarding the Selling Holders and the
distribution of such Shares as the Company may from time to time reasonably request in writing and as shall be required by law, the SEC or any securities exchange on which any shares of Common Stock are then listed for trading in connection with any
registration. 
 Each Selling Holder will as promptly as reasonably practicable notify the Company at any time when a prospectus
relating thereto is required to be delivered (or deemed delivered) under the Securities Act, of the occurrence of an event, of which such Selling Holder has knowledge, relating to such Selling Holder or its disposition of Shares thereunder requiring
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preparation of a supplement or amendment to such prospectus so that, as thereafter delivered (or deemed delivered) to the purchasers of such Shares, such prospectus will not contain an untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading. 

Dean Foods agrees, and any other Selling Holder agrees by acquisition of such Shares, that, upon receipt of any written notice from the
Company of the occurrence of any event of the kind described in Section 4.1(h), such Selling Holder will forthwith discontinue disposition of Shares pursuant to such registration statement until such Selling Holder’s receipt of the
copies of the supplemented or amended prospectus contemplated by Section 4.1(h), or until such Selling Holder is advised in writing by the Company that the use of the prospectus may be resumed, and if so directed by the Company, such
Selling Holder will deliver to the Company (at the Company’s expense) all copies, of the prospectus covering such Shares current at the time of receipt of such notice. In the event the Company shall give any such notice, the period during which
the applicable registration statement is required to be maintained effective shall be extended by the number of days during the period from and including the date of the giving of such notice to and including the date when each seller of Shares
covered by such registration statement either receives the copies of the supplemented or amended prospectus contemplated by Section 4.1(h) or is advised in writing by the Company that the use of the prospectus may be resumed. 

No Selling Holder may participate in any underwritten offering or registered exchange offer hereunder unless such Selling Holder
(i) agrees to sell such Selling Holder’s securities on the basis provided in any underwriting arrangements or dealer manager agreements approved by the Company or other Persons entitled to approve such arrangements and (ii) completes
and executes all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting agreements, dealer manager agreements, and other documents reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements or this Agreement. 

4.2 Underwriting. If requested by the underwriters for any underwritten offering in connection with a registration requested
hereunder (including any registration under Section 3 which involves, in whole or in part, an underwritten offering), the Company will enter into an underwriting agreement with such underwriters for such offering, such agreement to
contain such representations and warranties by the Company and such other terms and provisions as are customarily contained in underwriting agreements with respect to that offering, including, without limitation, indemnities, contribution and the
provision of opinions of counsel and accountants’ letters to the effect and to the extent provided in Section 4.1(f). The Company may require that the Shares requested to be registered pursuant to Section 3 be included
in such underwriting on the same terms and conditions as shall be applicable to the other securities being sold through underwriters under such registration; provided, however, that no Selling Holder shall be required to make any
representations or warranties to the Company or the underwriters (other than representations and warranties regarding such Holder and such Holder’s intended method of distribution) or to undertake any indemnification obligations to the Company
or the underwriters with respect thereto, except as otherwise provided in Section 6 hereof. The Selling Holders shall be parties to any such underwriting agreement, and the representations and warranties by, and the other agreements on
the part of, the Company to and for the benefit of such underwriters shall also be made to and for the benefit of such Selling Holders. 

  
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 4.3 Blackout Periods for Shelf Registrations. 

(a) At any time when a Shelf Registration effected pursuant to Section 2 relating to the Shares is effective, upon written
notice from the Company to the Selling Holders that the Company has determined in the good faith judgment of the general counsel of the Company, to be confirmed within 15 days by the Board, that (i) the Selling Holders’ sale of the Shares
pursuant to the Shelf Registration would require the disclosure of material information that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as confidential and the disclosure of which would have a material adverse effect on the Company
or (ii) the Company is unable to comply with SEC requirements for continued use or effectiveness of the Shelf Registration (in the case of either clause (i) or (ii), for convenience, referred to as an “Information
Blackout”), the Selling Holders shall suspend sales of the Shares pursuant to such Shelf Registration until the earlier of (A) the date upon which such material information is disclosed to the public or ceases to be material (or the
Company otherwise complies with applicable SEC requirements), (B) 90 days after the general counsel of the Company made such good faith determination (as subsequently confirmed by the Board) unless resuming use of the Shelf Registration is then
prohibited by applicable SEC rules or published interpretations, or (C) such time as the Company notifies the Selling Holders that sales pursuant to such Shelf Registration may be resumed (the number of days from such suspension of sales of the
Selling Holders until the day when such sales may be resumed hereunder is hereinafter called a “Sales Blackout Period”). 
 (b) If there is an Information Blackout and the Selling Holders do not notify the Company in writing of their desire to cancel such Shelf Registration, the period set forth in
Section 4.1(c)(i) shall be extended for a number of days equal to the number of days in the Sales Blackout Period. The fact that a Sales Blackout Period is required under this Section 4.3 or SEC rules shall not relieve the
contractual duty of the Company as set forth in Section 2.7 to file timely reports and otherwise file material required to be filed under the Exchange Act. 
 4.4 Listing and Other Requirements. In connection with the registration of any offering of the Shares pursuant to this Agreement, the Company agrees to use its commercially reasonable efforts to
effect the listing of such Shares on any securities exchange on which any shares of the Common Stock are then listed and otherwise facilitate the public trading of such Shares. The Company will take all other lawful actions reasonably necessary and
customary under the circumstances to expedite and facilitate the disposition by the Selling Holders of Shares registered pursuant to this Agreement as described in the prospectus relating thereto, including without limitation timely preparation and
delivery of stock certificates in appropriate denominations and furnishing any required instructions or legal opinions to the Company’s transfer agent in connection with Shares sold or otherwise distributed pursuant to an effective registration
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 4.5 Holdback Agreements. 

(a) The Company shall not effect any public sale or distribution of its equity securities, or any securities convertible into or
exchangeable or exercisable for such securities, during the seven days prior to, and during the 90-day period beginning on, the effective date of any registration statement in connection with a Demand Registration (other than a Shelf Registration)
or a Piggyback Registration, except pursuant to registrations on Form S-8 or S-4 or any successor form or unless the underwriters managing any such public offering otherwise agree. 

(b) If the Holders of Shares notify the Company in writing that they intend to effect an underwritten sale of Shares registered pursuant
to a Shelf Registration pursuant to Section 2 hereof, the Company shall not effect any public sale or distribution of its equity securities, or any securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for its equity securities, during the
seven days prior to, and during the 90-day period beginning on, the date specified in such notice for such proposed sale, except pursuant to registrations on Form S-8 or any successor form or unless the underwriters managing any such public offering
otherwise agree. 
 (c) If the Company completes an underwritten registration with respect to any of its securities (whether
offered for sale by the Company or any other Person) on a form and in a manner that would have permitted registration of the Shares, if no Holder requested the inclusion of any Shares in such registration, and if the Company gives each Holder at
least 20 days prior written notice of the approximate date on which such offering is expected to be commenced, the Holders shall not effect any public sales or distributions of equity securities of the Company, or any securities convertible into or
exchangeable or exercisable for such securities, until the termination of the holdback period required from the Company by any underwriters in connection with such previous registration, provided that the holdback period applicable to the Holders
shall (i) in no event be longer than a period of seven days prior to, and during the 90-day period beginning on the effective date of such registration statement, (ii) not apply to any Distribution under the Separation and Distribution
Agreement, (iii) not apply to any Holder owning less than 10% of the Company’s outstanding voting securities, and (iv) not apply unless all directors and officers of the Company and holders of 10% or more of the Company’s
outstanding voting securities are bound by the same holdback restrictions as are intended to apply to the Holders; provided, that for the purposes of clause (iii), all Dean Foods Group Members shall be treated as a single Selling Holder.

 Section 5. Preparation; Reasonable Investigation. In connection with the preparation and filing of each
registration statement registering the Shares under the Securities Act and each sale of the Shares thereunder, the Company will give each Selling Holder and the underwriters, if any, and their respective counsel and accountants representing such
Selling Holders and underwriters, access to its financial and other records, pertinent corporate documents and properties of the Company and such opportunities to discuss the business of the Company with its officers and the independent public
accountants who have certified its financial statements as shall be necessary, in the opinion of the Selling Holders and such underwriters or such counsel, to conduct a reasonable investigation within the meaning of the Securities Act;
provided, that for purposes of this Section 5, all Dean Foods Group Members shall be treated as a single Selling Holder. 

  
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 Section 6. Indemnification and Contribution. 

(a) In the event of any registration of any of the Shares hereunder, the Company will enter into customary indemnification arrangements
to indemnify and hold harmless each of the Selling Holders, each of their respective directors and officers, each Person who participates as an underwriter in the offering or sale of such securities, each officer and director of each underwriter,
and each Person, if any, who controls each such Selling Holder or any such underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act (collectively, the “Covered Persons”) against any losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses,
joint or several, to which such Person may be subject under the Securities Act or otherwise insofar as such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses (or actions or proceedings in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon (i) any
untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of any material fact contained in any related registration statement filed under the Securities Act, any preliminary prospectus or final prospectus included therein, or any amendment or supplement
thereto, or any document incorporated by reference therein, or (ii) any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and the Company will
reimburse each such Covered Person, as incurred, for any legal or any other expenses reasonably incurred by such Covered Person in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, liability, action or proceeding; provided,
however, that the Company shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage, liability (or action or proceeding in respect thereof) or expense arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged
untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in such registration statement, any such preliminary prospectus or final prospectus, amendment or supplement in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company
by such Selling Holder or such underwriter specifically for use in the preparation thereof. Such indemnity shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any such Covered Person and shall survive the
transfer of such securities by the Selling Holders. In order to provide for just and equitable contribution to joint liability under the Securities Act in any case in which either (a) any Holder exercising rights under this Agreement, or any
controlling person of any such Holder, makes a claim for indemnification pursuant to this Section 6, but it is judicially determined (by the entry of a final judgment or decree by a court of competent jurisdiction and the expiration of
time to appeal or the denial of the last right of appeal) that such indemnification may not be enforced in such case notwithstanding the fact that this Section 6 provides for indemnification in such case, or (b) contribution under
the Securities Act may be required on the part of any such Selling Holder or any such controlling person in circumstances for which indemnification is provided under this Section 6; then, and in each such case, the Company and such
Holder will contribute to the aggregate losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which they may be subject (after contribution from others) in such proportion so that such Holder is responsible for the portion represented by the percentage that the
public offering price of its Shares offered by and sold under the registration statement bears to the public offering price of all securities offered by and sold under such registration statement, and the Company and other Selling Holders are
responsible for the remaining portion; provided, however, that, in any such case: (i) no such Holder will be required to contribute any amount in excess of the net amount of proceeds of all such Shares offered and sold by such
Holder pursuant to such registration statement; and (ii) no person or entity guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) will be entitled to contribution from any person or entity who
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 (b) Each of the Selling Holders, by virtue of exercising its respective registration rights
hereunder, agrees and undertakes to enter into customary indemnification arrangements to indemnify and hold harmless (in the same manner and to the same extent as set forth in clause (a) of this Section 6) the Company, its directors
and officers, each Person who participates as an underwriter in the offering or sale of such securities, each officer and director of each underwriter, and each Person, if any, who controls the Company or any such underwriter within the meaning of
the Securities Act, with respect to any statement in or omission from such registration statement, any preliminary prospectus or final prospectus included therein, or any amendment or supplement thereto, if such statement or omission is contained in
written information furnished by such Selling Holder to the Company specifically for inclusion in such registration statement or prospectus; provided, however, that the obligation for each Selling Holder to indemnify shall be several
and not joint, and shall be limited to the net amount of proceeds received by such Selling Holder from the sale of Shares pursuant to such registration statement. Such indemnity shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation
made by or on behalf of the Company or any such director, officer or Person and shall survive the transfer of the registered securities by the Selling Holders. 
 (c) Any Person entitled to indemnification hereunder shall (i) give prompt written notice to the indemnifying party of any claim with respect to which it seeks indemnification (provided,
however, that the failure to give prompt notice shall not impair any Person’s rights to indemnification hereunder to the extent such failure has not prejudiced the indemnifying party) and (ii) unless in such indemnified party’s
reasonable judgment a conflict of interest between such indemnified and indemnifying parties may exist with respect to such claim, permit such indemnifying party to assume the defense of such claim with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the
indemnified party. If such defense is assumed, the indemnifying party shall not be subject to any liability for any settlement made by the indemnified party without the indemnifying party’s consent (but such consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld). An indemnifying party who is not entitled to (as a result of a conflict of interest, as determined in the indemnified party’s reasonable judgment), or who elects not to, assume the defense of a claim shall not be obligated to pay the
fees and expenses of more than one counsel for all parties indemnified by such indemnifying party with respect to such claim, unless in the reasonable judgment of any indemnified party a conflict of interest may exist between such indemnified party
and any other of such indemnified parties with respect to such claim. 
 (d) “Person” means an individual, a
partnership, a corporation, a limited liability company, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, a joint venture, an unincorporated organization and a governmental entity, or any department, agency or political subdivision thereof.

 (e) The rights and obligations of the Company and the Selling Holders under this Section 6 shall survive the termination
of this Agreement. 

  
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 Section 7. Benefits and Termination of Registration Rights. The Holders may
exercise the registration rights granted hereunder in such manner and proportions as they shall agree among themselves. The registration rights hereunder shall cease to apply to any particular Shares and such securities shall cease to be Shares
when: (a) a registration statement with respect to the sale of such Shares shall have become effective under the Securities Act and such Shares shall have been disposed of in accordance with such registration statement; (b) such Shares
shall have been sold to the public pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act (or any successor provision); (c) such Shares shall have been otherwise transferred, new certificates for them not bearing a legend restricting further transfer
shall have been delivered by the Company and subsequent public distribution of them shall not require registration or qualification of them under the Securities Act or any similar state law then in force; (d) such Shares shall have ceased to be
outstanding; (e) in the case of Shares held by a Permitted Transferee, when such Shares become eligible for sale pursuant to Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act (or any successor provision); or (f) the third anniversary of the
Distribution Date occurs. 
 Section 8. Registration Expenses. As used in this Agreement, the term
“Registration Expenses” means all expenses incident to the Company’s performance of or compliance with the registration requirements set forth in this Agreement including, without limitation, the following: (a) the fees,
disbursements and expenses of the Company’s counsel and accountants in connection with the registration of the Shares to be disposed of under the Securities Act; (b) all expenses in connection with the preparation, printing and filing of
the registration statement, any preliminary prospectus or final prospectus, any other offering document and amendments and supplements thereto and the mailing and delivering of copies thereof to the underwriters; (c) the cost of printing and
producing any agreements among underwriters, underwriting agreements, and blue sky or legal investment memoranda, any selling agreements and any amendments thereto or other documents in connection with the offering, sale or delivery of the Shares to
be disposed of; (d) all expenses in connection with the qualification of the Shares to be disposed of for offering and sale under state securities laws, including the fees and disbursements of counsel for the underwriters in connection with
such qualification and in connection with any blue sky and legal investment surveys; (e) the filing fees incident to securing any required review by The New York Stock Exchange and any other securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then
traded or listed of the terms of the sale of the Shares to be disposed of and the trading or listing of all such Shares on each such exchange; (f) the costs of preparing stock certificates; (g) the costs and charges of the Company’s
transfer agent and registrar; and (h) the fees and disbursements of any custodians or agents. Registration Expenses shall not include (i) underwriting discounts and underwriters’ commissions attributable to the Shares being registered
for sale on behalf of the Selling Holders, which shall be paid by the Selling Holders and (ii) the fees, disbursements and expenses of the Selling Holders’ counsel and accountants in connection with the registration of the Shares to be
disposed of under the Securities Act. 
 Section 9. Miscellaneous. 

9.1 Entire Agreement. This Agreement, the Separation and Distribution Agreement, all the other Ancillary Documents (as defined in
the Separation and Distribution Agreement) and all other Exhibits and Schedules attached hereto and thereto constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersede all prior written and
oral and all contemporaneous oral agreements and understandings with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof. 

  
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 9.2 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of the State of Delaware regardless of the laws that might otherwise govern under principles of conflicts of laws applicable thereto. 
 9.3 Notices. All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given when delivered in person, by telecopy with answer back, by express or
overnight mail delivered by a nationally recognized air courier (delivery charges prepaid), or by registered or certified mail (postage prepaid, return receipt requested) to the respective parties as follows: 

if to Dean Foods: 
 Dean Foods Company 
 2711 N. Haskell Avenue 

Suite 3400 

Dallas, Texas 75201 
 Fax: (214) 303-3853 
 Attention: General Counsel 

if to the Company: 
 The WhiteWave Foods Company 
 12002 Airport Way 

Broomfield, CO 80021 
 Fax: 303-635-5107 
 Attention: General Counsel 

or to such other address as the party to whom notice is given may have previously furnished to the others in writing in the manner set forth above. Any
notice or communication delivered in person shall be deemed effective on delivery. Any notice or communication sent by telecopy shall be deemed effective on the day at the place such notice or communication is received if confirmed by return
facsimile. Any notice or communication sent by air courier shall be deemed effective on the day at the place at which such notice or communication is received if delivery is confirmed by the air courier. Any notice or communication sent by
registered or certified mail shall be deemed effective on the fifth Business Day (as defined below) at the place from which such notice or communication was mailed following the day on which such notice or communication was mailed. “Business
Day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, or a day on which banking institutions located in Dallas, Texas or New York, New York, are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close. 

9.4 Parties in Interest. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure solely to the benefit of each party hereto and its legal
representatives and successors, and each affiliate of such party hereto, and nothing in this Agreement, express or implied, is intended to confer upon any other Person, other than any Permitted Transferee, any rights or remedies of any nature
whatsoever under or by reason of this Agreement. 

  
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 9.5 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall
be deemed to be an original, but all of which shall constitute one and the same agreement. 
 9.6 Assignment. This
Agreement may not be assigned by any party hereto other than by Dean Foods to a Permitted Transferee as provided for in Section 2.5; provided, further, that Dean Foods may assign this Agreement in connection with a merger
transaction in which Dean Foods is not the surviving entity, or the sale of all or substantially all of its assets. 
 9.7
Jurisdiction. If any dispute, controversy or claim arises out of or in connection with this Agreement, the parties irrevocably (a) consent and submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, New
Castle County, or, if that court does not have jurisdiction, a federal court sitting in Wilmington, Delaware, (b) waive any objection to that choice of forum based on venue or to the effect that the forum is not convenient, and (c) WAIVE
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL OR ADJUDICATION BY JURY. Any party hereto may make service on another party by sending or delivering a copy of the process to the party to be served at the address and in the manner provided
for the giving of notices in Section 9.3. Nothing in this Section 9.7, however, shall affect the right to serve legal process in any other manner permitted by law. 

9.8 Severability. If any term or other provision of this Agreement is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced by any rule
of law or public policy, all other conditions and provisions of this Agreement shall nevertheless remain in full force and effect so long as the economic or legal substance of the transactions contemplated hereby is not affected in any manner
materially adverse to any party. Upon such determination that any term or other provision is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced, the parties hereto shall negotiate in good faith to modify this Agreement so as to effect the original
intent of the parties as closely as possible in an acceptable manner to the end that transactions contemplated hereby are fulfilled to the fullest extent possible. 
 9.9 Failure or Indulgence Not Waiver; Remedies Cumulative. No failure or delay on the part of any party hereto in the exercise of any right hereunder shall impair such right or be construed to be a
waiver of, or acquiescence in, any breach of any representation, warranty or agreement herein, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right preclude other or further exercise thereof or of any other right. All rights and remedies
existing under this Agreement are cumulative to, and not exclusive of, any rights or remedies otherwise available. 
 9.10
Amendment. No change, amendment or waiver will be made to this Agreement, except by an instrument in writing signed on behalf of each of the parties hereto. 
 9.11 Authority. Each of the parties hereto represents to the other that (a) it has the corporate or other requisite power and authority to execute, deliver and perform this Agreement,
(b) the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by it have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other action, (c) it has duly and validly executed and delivered this

  
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Agreement, and (d) this Agreement is a legal, valid and binding obligation, enforce-able against it in accordance with its terms subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium or other similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and general equity principles. 
 9.12
Interpretation. The headings contained in this Agreement are for reference purposes only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement. When a reference is made in this Agreement to an Article or a Section,
such reference shall be to an Article or Section of this Agreement unless otherwise indicated. All references made herein to the Company as a party which operate as of a time following the Effective Time shall be deemed to refer to the Company and
its subsidiaries as a single party. 
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and
delivered as of the date and year first written above. 
  

			
	DEAN FOODS COMPANY
	
	/s/ Timothy A. Smith
		
	By:	 	Timothy A. Smith
	Its:	 	Treasurer
	
	THE WHITEWAVE FOODS COMPANY
	
	/s/ Kelly J. Haecker
		
	By:	 	Kelly J. Haecker
	Its:	 	Senior Vice President, Finance, and Chief Financial Officer

  
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Rights Agreement

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