Sargento Foods Inc.
Premium natural cheese products crafted with real, simple ingredients.
Sargento Foods is a family-owned leader in natural cheese manufacturing, producing sliced, shredded, snack, and recipe-blend cheese products for retail and foodservice markets. Operating manufacturing facilities in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Mississippi, Sargento processes more than 500 million pounds of natural cheese per year under the Sargento brand and as a co-manufacturer for private-label retail programs. The company is credited with introducing pre-sliced and pre-shredded natural cheese to supermarkets and pioneered resealable packaging for refrigerated cheese.
- Type
- Manufacturer
- Location
- Plymouth, WI, United States
- Founded
- 1953
- Website
- sargento.com
- Categories
- Specialty & Gourmet Food, Pantry & Dry Goods, Frozen & Chilled Food
- Markets
- United States, Canada, Mexico
Verified facts
- market-access-cr (green), checked 2026-08-22 SENASA Costa Rica, establecimientos habilitados para exportar a Costa Rica
- sanctions-clear (green), checked 2026-08-12 OpenSanctions
- debarment-clear (green), checked 2026-08-12 OpenSanctions
- domain-registered (green), checked 2026-08-12 Domain registry record
- lei-active (green), checked 2026-08-23 GLEIF global LEI register (golden copy)
- facility-registered (green), checked 2026-08-19 BPOM (Indonesian Food and Drug Authority), public register of manufacturing facilities behind product registrations (Sarana)
Claimed certifications
- FSSC 22000, Food Safety System IAF CertSearch
- HACCP
- Kosher Certified
Import rules for these goods
- EU imports of food of animal origin and many other food categories must be pre-notified in TRACES and enter through border control posts. European Commission (TRACES)
- US imports require the foreign facility to be FDA-registered and the importer to run a Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP). US FDA