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Company type | Private |
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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 |
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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.
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.