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Top 25 Cheese manufacturers based in France
RevenueBase identified 413 cheese manufacturers headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 26,437 professional contacts across them, including 3,902 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers cheese manufacturers headquartered in France, 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.
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 based in France
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 | 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. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 573 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Entremont appartient au groupe coopératif Sodiaal, 1ère coopérative laitière française, qui rassemble une communauté de 15 éleveurs et de 9 collaborateurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 383 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bienvenue chez Triballat!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 326 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Créée le 1er avril 1986 après plus de 25 années de restructuration de plusieurs coopératives, notre structure est spécialisée dans la collecte, la transformation et la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 164 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alsace Lait est une laiterie coopérative à dimension humaine, qui possède une forte notoriété sur l’Est de la France grâce à la qualité de ses produits.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tecnal is a Worldwide contractor, and integrator for dairy and cheese industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Fermière est une PME familiale française dynamique qui fait figure d’exception sur le marché laitier.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PME toujours indépendante depuis 1921, la Fromagerie Milleret est reconnue pour ses marques L'Ortolan et Roucoulons.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sodiaal Professionnel, qui appartient à la coopérative laitière française Sodiaal, est un acteur incontournable du marché de la consommation hors domicile et l'interlocuteur…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Petit Basque est l’héritier frais et gourmand des transhumances de brebis pratiquées par les bergers basques dans les années 50, qui contre résidence dans des châteaux…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Peu d’entreprises peuvent se prévaloir d’avoir un siècle d’expérience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GM Développement est le résultat d’une histoire centenaire faite de passion et de transmission.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Monts et Terroirs offre un savoir-faire présent des éleveurs aux consommateurs; de la collecte du lait, la fabrication, l’affinage, au conditionnement et à la vente de nos…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A specialist in plastics processing applied to cheese technology, SERVI DORYL designs, produces and markets throughout the world, cheesemoulds, blockmoulds, coagulation basins…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Maison Bordier est une entreprise à taille humaine, à l’esprit familial et artisanal, proposant des produits de grande qualité.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Située au coeur de la Bourgogne, à Gilly-lès-Cîteaux, la Fromagerie Delin est une entreprise familiale crée par Jacques et Jacqueline Delin en 1969 et reprise par Philippe Delin…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis 1948, la Laiterie Gilbert produit et distribue des produits de crèmerie (yaourts, fromages blancs, crème fraîche, lait frais) dans la région de Grenoble.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a major partner for the export of French cheese.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nous sommes Jay & Joy, la 1ère crèmerie végétale de France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis 2004, nous mettons notre expertise au service de la sélection et de la vente en gros de fromages.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bastidarra est une laiterie artisanale du Pays Basque qui propose une large gamme de produits laitiers artisanaux et desserts au lait de brebis, de vache et de chèvre.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Premier transformateur de lait de chèvre bio français, producteur de fromages bio (chèvre, brebis, vache) à pâte molle.” 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 based in France at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 413 companies.
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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France 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. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 3,902 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.
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 based in France?
RevenueBase identified 413 cheese manufacturers headquartered in France 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 city has the most cheese manufacturers?
Paris leads with 13 headquartered companies, followed by Rungis (8) and Toulouse (5).
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 3,902 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 413 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.