BelGioioso Cheese Inc.
TypePrivate
IndustryFood processing
Founded1979 (Denmark, Wisconsin), U.S.
HeadquartersGreen Bay, Wisconsin, U.S.
ProductsCheese
BrandsPolly-O
Number of employees
700+
Websitewww.belgioioso.com

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.

History

The 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

  1. 1 2 "BelGioioso Cheese president to speak at St. Norbert". Retrieved April 13, 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Wisconsin State Farmer". Wisconsin State Farmer. Retrieved April 13, 2018.
  3. ↑ "BelGioioso to Acquire Polly-O Cheese Brand from Lactalis". Food Manufacturing. Retrieved May 12, 2022.
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