BelGioioso Cheese facts for kids
Cheese Plant
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| Private | |
| Industry | Food processing |
| Founded | 1979 (Denmark, Wisconsin), U.S. |
| Headquarters | Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Products | Cheese |
| Brands | Polly-O |
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Number of employees
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700+ |
BelGioioso Cheese Inc. is a company in Wisconsin that makes cheese. They have eight different factories where they make, age, package, and ship their cheeses. Each factory specializes in making certain types of cheese.
How BelGioioso Cheese Started
The company was started in 1979 by a person named Errico Auricchio. His family had been making cheese in Italy for a long time.
Errico Auricchio began his company in Denmark, Wisconsin. He made his very first cheese, which was provolone, in a rented factory in Wrightstown, Wisconsin.
Growing the Cheese Business
In 2021, BelGioioso Cheese bought the cheese brand Polly-O from another company called Groupe Lactalis. This happened because the U.S. government wanted to make sure there was fair competition in the cheese market.
Today, BelGioioso Cheese makes twenty-eight different kinds of cheese. This includes popular brands like Polly-O.
