Schreiber Foods
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Schreiber Foods, Inc., is the world's second largest cheese producer. [1] It is an employee-owned customer brand cheese company headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin. With over $3 billion in annual sales[2], it is the largest privately held cheese company in the world (only Kraft Foods, a public company, is larger). Forbes ranked Schreiber Foods as 91 on its year 2005 list of privately held companies.
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[edit] Company history
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, Wisc. 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. 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, Georgia, Texas, Nebraska and Tennessee, in addition to overseas operations in Mexico, Brazil, Germany, India and China.
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 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.
In 2000, Schreiber purchased the Beatrice Foods plant in Waukesha, WI. It closed that plant employing 170 in 2002. Schreiber purchased Pinnacle Cheese in Pittsburgh, PA in 2000. It closed the plant employing 100 in 2003. Schreiber purchased Raskas Foods in St. Louis, MO in 2002. It closed the plant employing 220 in 2005.
[edit] Cheese production
Schreiber primarily produces customer brand process and natural cheeses for restaurants and grocery stores. Schreiber is the United States' second-largest producer of cream cheese and has recently expanded into yogurt production as well. Schreiber produces cheese slices that are used on cheeseburgers by 17 of the top 20 hamburger chains. [3]
The company's brands include Ready-Cut cheese products, Raskas cream cheese, and Clearfield processed and natural cheeses. [3]
[edit] Employees
Schreiber employs over 5,000 people. [2] It is headed by President and CEO David Pozniak, chairman Larry Ferguson, CFO Brian Liddy, and Treasurer Robert Pruess. Ownership of the company was transferred to employees in the form of an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) in 1999. [3]
[edit] Locations
The company is headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It has United States production facilities in Tempe, Arizona; Gainesville, Georgia; Carthage, Missouri; Clinton, Missouri; Monett, Missouri; Mt. Vernon, Missouri; Shippensburg, Pennsylvania; Stephenville, Texas; Logan, Utah; Smithfield, Utah; West Bend, Wisconsin; Ravenna, Nebraska; Nashville, Tennessee; and Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. There are production facilities in Curitiba, Brazil; Wangen, Germany; Baramati, India; and Leon, Mexico. There distribution facilities in Gainesville, Georgia; Carthage, Missouri; Logan, Utah; Stephenville, Texas; Shippensburg, Pennsylvania; and De Pere, Wisconsin. [4]
