Born in a Denver family grocery store in 1950, Leprino Foods makes mozzarella cheese and dairy nutrition ingredients for food and nutrition brands worldwide. Still family-owned, the company now operates manufacturing facilities on three continents, employs more than 5,000 people and supplies products to more than 70 countries. Its Denver headquarters remains at the corner where Mike Leprino Sr. began making cheese by hand.
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Miceli Dairy Products CompanySince 1923, Miceli Dairy Products Company has made Italian cheeses in Cleveland, beginning with 15-year-old John Miceli selling ricotta and mozzarella from a Model-T pickup truck. Today the family-owned business remains guided by Miceli children and grandchildren, carrying generations-old recipes into a nationally recognized cheese company.CLEVELAND, OH
Royal A-wareFamily-run Royal A-ware makes cheese and other dairy foods, carrying more than 135 years of food experience from the Bouter family’s 1890 beginnings into a business with almost 5,000 colleagues. The company works across the dairy chain, from more than 1,700 own dairy farmers and over 3 billion litres of milk to customer-specific cheese and fresh dairy for markets in the Netherlands and around the world. Royal A-ware was formed in 2010 through the merger of Bouter Kaas and Anker Kaas and now operates 23 production locations, with cheese dairies in five countries.GARDEN CITY, NY
Unternehmensgruppe Theo MüllerSince Ludwig Müller founded a village dairy in 1896, Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller has remained 100 percent family-owned while growing into an international food manufacturer. Today, 35,000 employees work across 21 production sites, with the group exporting to more than 80 countries and covering much of its value chain from packaging through distribution.FORT WASHINGTON, PA
Great Lakes CheeseFounded in 1958 by Swiss immigrant Hans Epprecht as a neighborhood cheese-delivery business, Great Lakes Cheese now manufactures and packages natural and processed cheese for customers across the country. The privately owned Epprecht Family company operates nine plants across six states, with more than 4,700 employee-owners participating in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan established in 1998. Its award-winning products and sizable national network reflect a business built around long-term family ownership and shared responsibility.HIRAM, OH