Schreiber Foods, Inc. - Introduction

Introduction

425 Pine Street
Green Bay, Wisconsin 54301
U.S.A.
Telephone: (920) 437-7601
Web site: http://www.sficorp.com

Private Company
Incorporated: 1945 as L.D. Schreiber Cheese Co.
Employees: 4,500
Sales: $2.2 billion (2004)
NAIC: 311513 Cheese Manufacturing

Schreiber Foods, Inc., is the largest privately held cheese company in the world. Schreiber manufactures primarily private-label cheeses. That is, it mostly does not sell its own brands, but produces cheese for others. Its products include natural cheeses, processed cheese products, and cream cheese. It is one of the leading suppliers of cheese to fast-food restaurant chains, supplying the cheese slices that go on cheeseburgers to 17 of the top 20 hamburger chains. Some 90 percent of cheeseburgers in the United States are made with Schreiber products. It is the second largest producer of cream cheese in the United States, behind giant industry leader Kraft. Schreiber also sells private-label cheese and dairy products to grocery stores, to club and warehouse stores, to the military, to school foodservice programs, and to drugstores and discount stores. The company's own brands include Raskas cream cheese, Clearfield processed and natural cheeses, and Ready-Cut cheese products. Schreiber maintains 22 production facilities spread across Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Utah, as well as in Germany, Mexico, and Brazil, and it runs four distribution centers in the United States. Schreiber also participates in joint ventures with companies in Brazil, France, Germany, India, and Mexico and operates overseas subsidiaries in Europe and the Middle East. The company started small and then expanded as it gained prominent nationwide customers such as McDonald's. The privately owned company was bought out by its employees in 1999.