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Article: CHEESE ONLY, IF YOU PLEASE.(Food)(The heavy-hitting cheese maker goes to bat for a name that tens of thousands simply call "home")
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- January 12, 2004
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Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard
TILLAMOOK - Long before Wal-Mart ruled retail, before Rupert Murdoch bought broadcast media, 10 dairy farmers in the lush green pastures of the Tillamook Valley decided that bigger was better.
They threw in $25 per factory and in 1909 formed the Tillamook County Creamery Association, makers of the now world-famous Tillamook Cheese.
In the past decade, the company has gone from a well-known regional brand to a cheese behemoth, with lucrative contracts in Costco and Wal-Mart stores. In 2001, the company doubled in size by adding a factory in Eastern Oregon. Last year, the creamery boasted $270 million in ...