Schreiber Foods

Schreiber Foods
Private
Founded 1945
Headquarters Green Bay, Wisconsin
Key people
 Mike Haddad,
President & CEO
Products Dairy products
Number of employees
 7,000
Website www.SchreiberFoods.com

Schreiber Foods Inc., is a dairy company which produces and distributes natural cheese, process cheese, cream cheese and yogurt. It is an employee-owned customer brand dairy company headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin. With more than $5 billion in annual sales,[1] Forbes ranked Schreiber Foods as the 81sth largest private employer in 2016.[2]

Company history

Schreiber Foods Headquarters in downtown Green Bay, WI.

Schreiber Foods was founded in 1945 when L.D. Schreiber, in partnership with Merlin G. Bush and Daniel D. Nusbaum, started the L.D. Schreiber Cheese Company with its original plant in Green Bay, Wisconsin. In 1950, Schreiber Foods opened a second cheese plant in Carthage, Missouri. Schreiber added two more plants in the 1970s in Logan, Utah, and Monett, Missouri. In 2000, Schreiber purchased the Beatrice Foods plant in Waukesha, Wisconsin. It closed that plant employing 170 in 2002. Schreiber purchased Pinnacle Cheese in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2000. It closed the plant employing 100 in 2003. Schreiber purchased Raskas Foods in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2002. It closed the St Louis plant employing 220 in 2005, while maintaining plants in Texas and Pennsylvania.

By the end of 2000, six more were added to include additional operations in Missouri, Arizona and Wisconsin. Since then, they've expanded to include domestic plants in Pennsylvania, Texas, California and Utah, in addition to international operations in Austria, Brazil, Germany, India, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Slovakia.

In 1962, Schreiber sold the cheese operation to 13 employees, including Bush and Nusbaum. As the company began to expand into products other than cheese, the L.D. Schreiber Company changed its name to Schreiber Foods Inc. in 1980. Then in 1999, Schreiber created an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), turning ownership of the company over to all of its employees, or partners.

Cheese production

Schreiber produces customer brand process, natural and cream cheeses and yogurt for restaurants, grocery stores and food service distributors. Schreiber is the United States' second-largest producer of cream cheese and one of the largest yogurt producers. Schreiber produces cheese slices that are used on cheeseburgers by 17 of the top 20 hamburger chains.[3]

Employees

Schreiber employs more than 7,000 people worldwide. It is headed by President and CEO Mike Haddad, chairman Larry Ferguson, and CFO Matt Mueller. Jerry Smyth is the General Counsel. Ownership of the company was transferred to employees in the form of an ESOP (employee stock ownership plan) in 1999.[3]

Locations

The company is headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It has thirteen United States production facilities in seven states, five of which are also distribution centers. There are also twelve international production facilities in ten countries.[4]

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ "History at Official Website". schreiberfoods.com. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  2. ↑ "#81 Schreiber Foods". Forbes.com. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  3. 1 2 Business Enotes
  4. ↑ Locations at Official website
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