BelGioioso Cheese

BelGioioso Cheese Inc. is a cheese manufacturer in Wisconsin. The company currently operates eight manufacturing facilities, each plant producing, aging, finishing, packaging, and shipping specific cheeses.

History

BelGioioso was founded in 1979 by Errico Auricchio, whose great-grandfather had founded Auricchio in 1877, a prominent cheese manufacturer in Naples, Italy. Errico Auricchio started the company in Denmark, Wisconsin, producing provolone in a rented cheese plant in Wrightstown, Wisconsin.
In 2021, Belgioioso Cheese agreed to purchase Polly-O from Groupe Lactalis, as a requirement by the US Department of Justice's antitrust review of Lactalis's purchase from Kraft Heinz.
Today, the company produces twenty-eight varieties of cheese, including, for example, the brand Polly-O.