BelGioioso Cheese

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BelGioioso Cheese Inc.
Company type Private
Industry Food processing
Founded1979 (Denmark, Wisconsin), U.S.
Headquarters Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S.
ProductsCheese
Brands Polly-O
Number of employees
700+
Website www.belgioioso.com

BelGioioso Cheese Inc. is a cheese manufacturer in Wisconsin. The company currently operates eight manufacturing facilities, [1] each plant producing, aging, finishing, packaging, and shipping specific cheeses.

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History

BelGioioso was founded in 1979 by Errico Auricchio, whose great-grandfather had founded Auricchio in 1877, a prominent cheese manufacturer in Naples, Italy]]. Errico Auricchio started the company in Denmark, Wisconsin, producing provolone in a rented cheese plant in Wrightstown, Wisconsin. [1] [2]

In 2021, Belgioioso Cheese agreed to purchase Polly-O from Groupe Lactalis , as a requirement by the US Department of Justice's antitrust review of Lactalis's purchase from Kraft Heinz. [3]

Today, the company produces twenty-eight varieties of cheese, [2] including, for example, the brand Polly-O.

References

  1. 1 2 "BelGioioso Cheese president to speak at St. Norbert" . Retrieved April 13, 2018.
  2. 1 2 "BelGioioso Cheese sets the pace for specialty cheese diversity in Wisconsin". Wisconsin State Farmer. Archived from the original on October 24, 2015. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
  3. ↑ "BelGioioso to Acquire Polly-O Cheese Brand from Lactalis". Food Manufacturing. September 17, 2021. Retrieved May 12, 2022.
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