BelGioioso Cheese explained

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.

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: BelGioioso Cheese president to speak at St. Norbert. April 13, 2018.
2. Web site: BelGioioso Cheese sets the pace for specialty cheese diversity in Wisconsin. Wisconsin State Farmer. April 13, 2018.
3. Web site: BelGioioso to Acquire Polly-O Cheese Brand from Lactalis. Food Manufacturing. May 12, 2022.