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Top 25 Processed cheese manufacturers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,353 processed cheese manufacturers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 66,020 professional contacts across them, including 17,596 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers processed 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 30, 2026. Country and city lists for processed 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 processed cheese manufacturers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6,431 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 3,881 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Schreiber Foods strives to do good through food every day.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 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 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 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 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,062 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Drink Local With Prairie Farms Dairy Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 877 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Much more than a milk and cheese factory.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 836 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hilmar Cheese Company, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 796 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “This page is managed by Sigma in the USA.* Bar-S Foods is part of Sigma, a leading multinational food company that produces, markets and distributes quality branded foods…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 784 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 689 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos mais de meio século de tradição na produção de alimentos.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 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 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 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 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 444 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Who are we?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 382 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Elsa Group est l’un des principaux groupes industriels de l’économie laitière suisse et fait partie du groupe Migros (Migros Industrie).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 380 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sartori Company is an industry pioneer in premium specialty cheese.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 330 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Milcobel, dat is in de eerste plaats de passie en het vakmanschap van onze leden-melkveehouders die de krachten bundelen in een zuivelcoöperatie met een rijke traditie, en met de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 294 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Masters Gallery Foods, we offer more than the highest quality cheese products, more than timely order delivery and more than exceptional responsiveness to our customers’ needs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 284 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A UltraCheese foi criada a partir de um sonho: queremos ser a melhor e mais completa plataforma de cremes e queijos do país!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 278 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wie zijn wij DOC Kaas is een Nederlandse kaasproducent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 268 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1945 with a goal of bringing the best Italian cheeses to the American market, today Schuman Cheese offers a host of expanded capabilities to complement its original…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 262 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1996, Lancewood produces a range of cheese and dairy products that have rightly earned an excellent reputation for superior quality and flavour.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 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: processed 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 processed cheese manufacturers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of processed cheese manufacturers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name processed 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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Processed cheese manufacturers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 30, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
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 processed 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
- Every country. Country and city lists for processed cheese manufacturers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “processed 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 processed 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 processed 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, 17,596 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 30, 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.
Processed cheese manufacturers by location
12 lists · largest firstEvery Processed cheese manufacturers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Processed cheese manufacturers based in the United States214
- Processed cheese manufacturers based in Italy145
- Processed cheese manufacturers based in Brazil115
- Processed cheese manufacturers based in the Netherlands83
- Processed cheese manufacturers based in the United Kingdom61
- Processed cheese manufacturers based in France60
- Processed cheese manufacturers based in Germany59
- Processed cheese manufacturers based in Spain59
- Processed cheese manufacturers based in Canada49
- Processed cheese manufacturers based in Switzerland30
- Processed cheese manufacturers based in Belgium29
- Processed cheese manufacturers based in Türkiye29
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 processed 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 processed cheese manufacturers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,353 processed 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?
Saputo INC, headquartered in Montreal, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most processed cheese manufacturers?
The United States leads with 214 companies, followed by Italy (145) and Brazil (115). Every processed cheese manufacturers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most processed cheese manufacturers?
Sao Paulo leads with 14 headquartered companies, followed by Istanbul (8) and Bodegraven (7).
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 17,596 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,353 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 30, 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.