BelGioioso Cheese

BelGioioso Cheese
Private
Industry Food processing
Founded 1979 (Denmark, Wisconsin), U.S.
Headquarters Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S.
Products Cheese
Number of employees
 700+
Website www.belgioioso.com

BelGioioso Cheese Inc. is a cheese manufacturer in Wisconsin. BelGioioso Cheese currently operates eight manufacturing facilities.[1] Each plant makes specific cheeses which are manufactured, aged, finished, packaged and shipped from the facilities.

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, and produced his cheese in rented cheese plant in Wrightstown, Wisconsin, and began making provolone cheese.[1][2]

Today, the company produces 28 different varieties of cheese.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/money/2014/10/30/belgioioso-cheese-president-speak-st-norbert/18205757/
  2. 1 2 http://www.wisfarmer.com/business/belgioioso-cheese-sets-the-pace-for-specialty-cheese-diversity-in-wisconsin-----jcpg-334870-222535621.html

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