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Leprino Foods

American food company

Field	Value
name	Leprino Foods Company
logo	Leprino Foods logo.svg
logo_size	250px
image	Leprino Foods Headquarters.jpg
image_size	250px
type	Private
foundation
location	Denver, Colorado, U.S.
key_people	Mike Leprino (founder)
Lance FitzSimmons (President & CEO)

num_employees	5,500+ (2025)
industry	Food manufacturing
products	Cheese, Dairy ingredients
homepage	[www.leprino.com](http://www.leprino.com/)

Lance FitzSimmons (President & CEO)

Leprino Foods is an American company with headquarters in Denver, Colorado that produces cheese, lactose, whey protein and sweet whey. It is the world's largest maker of mozzarella cheese.

Overview

Leprino Foods was founded by James Leprino's father Mike Leprino in 1950 as a family-owned market selling grocery items and handmade cheese in Denver. It was first sold under the Gina Marie brand. Leprino Foods has facilities in Waverly, New York; Remus, Michigan; Allendale, Michigan;Lubbock, Texas; Greeley, Colorado; Fort Morgan, Colorado; Roswell, New Mexico; Singapore; Tracy, California; and Lemoore, California. It operates plants in Brazil (PicNic brand), Northern Ireland and Wales. The company's cheeses include mozzarella, reduced-fat Monterey jack, provolone, reduced-fat cheddar and various cheese blends, mainly for pizzeria and foodservice operators, frozen food manufacturers and private label cheese packagers. Leprino supplies cheese to 85% of the pizza market, including Pizza Hut, Domino's, Little Caesars, Papa John's, Godfather's Pizza, Hungry Howie's, Tombstone, Tony's, Jack's, and Digiorno. Their cheese and products are also used by Hot Pockets, Stouffer's, Smart Ones, and other products used in Yoplait yogurt, Pillsbury Toaster Strudel, and baby formula. Leprino is the US's largest exporter of lactose. They sell one billion pounds of cheese per year for $3 billion.

In 2009, it was ranked by Forbes as the 165th largest private company in the United States.

References

[http://www.leprinofoods.com/about/ Official website, About Us]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20090413054828/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=839984 BusinessWeek profile]
Cathy Proctor, Patrick Sweeney, [http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2002/12/30/story1.html?page=all 'Denver's big cheese: Leprino cuts a huge slice of the mozzarella market'], in ''[[Denver Business Journal]]'', December 29, 2002
Sorvino, Chloe. (26 May 2017). "This Secretive Billionaire Makes The Cheese For Pizza Hut, Domino's And Papa John's".
[https://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/21/private-companies-10_Leprino-Foods_QMAQ.html Forbes company profile]

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