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.
 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
editBelGioioso 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
edit- 1 2 "BelGioioso Cheese president to speak at St. Norbert". Retrieved April 13, 2018.
- 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.
- ↑ "BelGioioso to Acquire Polly-O Cheese Brand from Lactalis". Food Manufacturing. September 17, 2021. Retrieved May 12, 2022.