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Article: Leprino Foods Company
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- International Directory of Company Histories
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Leprino Foods Company
1830 West 38th Avenue
Denver, Colorado 80211
U.S.A.
(303) 480-2600
(800) LEPRINO; (800) 537-7466
Fax: (303) 480-2605
Private Company
Incorporated
:1946
Employees
:2,300
Sales
:$1.25 billion (1998 est.)
NAIC
:311513 Cheese Manufacturing; 311412 Frozen Specialty Food Manufacturing; 311999 All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing; 42241 General Line Grocery Wholesalers
Leprino Foods Company, owned by the Leprino family, is the largest producer of mozzarella cheese in the United States. The company holds more than 20 patents and makes more than 700 pounds of cheese each year in its seven cheesemaking plants, including a mozzarella plant in New Mexico that is the world
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