Since 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.
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
Pecoraro Cheese, IncPecoraro Cheese brings five generations of Campanian cheesemaking to Williamsburg, where the family has handcrafted Italian cheeses since 1976. Still family-owned and operated, the Brooklyn producer combines traditional hand-pulling methods with Italian machinery and makes its cheese to order for freshness. Fifth-generation cheesemaker Tito Pecoraro also oversees buffalo-milk sourcing from the Naples area, including the company’s mozzarella di bufala.BROOKLYN, NY
Lamagna CheeseFamily cheesemaking is Lamagna Cheese’s defining tradition: Giovanni Lamagna brought his Italian recipes to America in 1928, and successive generations have carried them forward. The company is known for fresh, all-natural ricotta made daily with traditional methods, while also serving foodservice customers with larger-format cheese products.VERONA, PA
Leprino Foods CompanyBorn 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.SAYRE, PA