Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Cheese manufacturers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 3,427 cheese manufacturers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 117,100 professional contacts across them, including 28,186 with verified work emails and 0 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers cheese manufacturers worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026. Country and city lists for cheese manufacturers follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest cheese manufacturers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12,746 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From family-owned company to dairy industry’s global leader Created in 1933 by André Besnier in Laval, Lactalis Group is a family-owned company settled in rural areas, which…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 6,431 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Saputo, one of the top ten dairy processors in the world, produces, markets, and distributes a wide array of dairy products of the utmost quality, including cheese, fluid milk…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 5,208 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Bel Group is a major player in the food industry through portions of dairy, fruit and plant-based products, and one of the world leaders in branded cheeses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 3,881 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Schreiber Foods strives to do good through food every day.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 3,115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 100 years, Shamrock Foods Company has worked to ensure people come first – our associates, our customers, and the families we serve across the nation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 2,449 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Para a Itambé, leite é tudo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 2,104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Leprino Foods Company’s history dates back over 70 years, when Jim Leprino first started making small batches of mozzarella for local markets and eateries in the Little Italy…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,505 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eurial, branche lait du groupe Agrial, est le 2ème groupe coopératif laitier en France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,235 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fundada há 46 anos, a Tirolez é uma das mais tradicionais marcas de laticínios do País.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,189 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With 2,500 employees and net sales of $1.7 billion, Sargento is a family-owned, privately-held company that has been an innovator in cheese for more than 70 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,157 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Great Lakes Cheese is an award-winning, premier manufacturer and packager of natural and processed bulk, shredded, and sliced cheeses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,062 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Drink Local With Prairie Farms Dairy Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,038 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “It all started on a hot summer day in 1907 when a group of local businessmen decided to open a creamery and make butter from excess cream brought in by area farmers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,011 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Darigold is known for delivering fresh, high quality, value-added dairy products to consumers and customer-driven solutions to organizations all around the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 877 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Much more than a milk and cheese factory.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 845 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Royal A-ware.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 836 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 784 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With around 6,800 employees at more than 20 locations in Germany, the Netherlands and other international hubs, Germany’s largest dairy cooperative processes milk into food…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 709 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Paras Dairy, doing the right thing has always come first.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 689 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos mais de meio século de tradição na produção de alimentos.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 684 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1909 as a farmer-owned cooperative, Tillamook County Creamery Association (TCCA) prides itself on its commitment to bringing to market the most consistent, best…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 657 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In today’s marketplace, a company stands alone when it can purposefully make the connection between centuries-old traditions and the modern table…and do it with undeniable passion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 617 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Polenghi é uma empresa que pertence ao Grupo Soparind Bongrain, líder mundial de especialidades queijeiras, presente em 116 países, nos 5 continentes, com mais de 17 mil…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 615 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Foremost Farms, we are proud to be one of the largest dairy cooperatives in the United States and a major food manufacturing business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 608 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dietz and Watson was founded in 1939 by Gottlieb Dietz, a talented young German sausage maker.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: cheese manufacturers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names cheese manufacturers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of cheese manufacturers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name cheese manufacturers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Cheese manufacturers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among cheese manufacturers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- 17 countries, largest first: the United States, Italy, France, Brazil, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Canada, Switzerland and 7 more. Country and city lists for cheese manufacturers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “cheese manufacturers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names cheese manufacturers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among cheese manufacturers, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 28,186 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Cheese manufacturers by location
17 lists · largest firstEvery Cheese manufacturers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Cheese manufacturers based in the United States591
- Cheese manufacturers based in Italy554
- Cheese manufacturers based in France413
- Cheese manufacturers based in Brazil304
- Cheese manufacturers based in the United Kingdom246
- Cheese manufacturers based in the Netherlands208
- Cheese manufacturers based in Spain200
- Cheese manufacturers based in Germany166
- Cheese manufacturers based in Canada139
- Cheese manufacturers based in Switzerland107
- Cheese manufacturers based in India99
- Cheese manufacturers based in Türkiye96
- Cheese manufacturers based in Australia93
- Cheese manufacturers based in Belgium72
- Cheese manufacturers based in Argentina56
- Cheese manufacturers based in Greece42
- Cheese manufacturers based in Portugal41
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names cheese manufacturers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many cheese manufacturers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 3,427 cheese manufacturers worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Lactalis Group, headquartered in Mayenne, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most cheese manufacturers?
The United States leads with 591 companies, followed by Italy (554) and France (413). Every cheese manufacturers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most cheese manufacturers?
London leads with 36 headquartered companies, followed by Sao Paulo (28) and Mumbai (15).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 28,186 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 3,427 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.