BelGioioso Cheese Inc. is a cheese manufacturer in Wisconsin. BelGioioso Cheese currently operates eight manufacturing facilities,[1] each plant making particular cheeses that are manufactured, aged, finished, packaged, and shipped from the facility.
 Cheese Plant | |
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Food processing |
| Founded | 1979 (Denmark, Wisconsin), U.S. |
| Headquarters | Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Products | Cheese |
| Brands | Polly-O |
Number of employees | 700+ |
| Website | www |
History
editThe company was founded in 1979 by Errico Auricchio, whose great-grandfather was a cheese manufacturer in Italy. Auricchio started the company in Denmark, Wisconsin, where he produced his first cheese, provolone, in a rented cheese plant in Wrightstown, Wisconsin.[1][2]
In 2021, Belgioioso Cheese entered into a purchase agreement with Groupe Lactalis to purchase Polly-O from the latter, 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
edit- ^ a b "BelGioioso Cheese president to speak at St. Norbert". Retrieved April 13, 2018.
- ^ a b "BelGioioso Cheese sets the pace for specialty cheese diversity in Wisconsin". Wisconsin State Farmer. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
- ^ "BelGioioso to Acquire Polly-O Cheese Brand from Lactalis". Food Manufacturing. Retrieved May 12, 2022.