Grande Cheese Company
Large -- eight Wisconsin production facilities; a national foodservice cheese supplier, especially for independent pizzerias and Italian restaurants.
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (home office/tech center in Lomira, WI); eight production facilities across Wisconsin (Brownsville, Chilton, Fond du Lac, Friendship, Juda, Lomira, Rubicon, Wyocena), USA
Quality assessment
An industrial-scale foodservice cheese manufacturer across eight Wisconsin plants. The founding-family heritage (Filippo Candela, 1941) is real and a Candela name persists in current leadership, but no third-party certification or farm-level milk traceability was located -- same shape as other large family-founded processors in this corpus (Creekstone): genuine history does not by itself clear commodity scale without a distinguishing program.
- Scale
- Large -- eight Wisconsin production facilities; a national foodservice cheese supplier, especially for independent pizzerias and Italian restaurants.
Products
mozzarellaprovolonericottaother Italian cheeses
Practices
Sources milk from Wisconsin dairy producersParticipates in the US Dairy Stewardship CommitmentPublishes annual sustainability reports
Served at
Sources
What the quality assessment above is built on.
- grande.com ↗
1941 founding by Filippo Candela, Wisconsin production facilities, sustainability program participation