Sodiaal has placed Entremont Alliance’s speciality and AOC cheese operations into a separate company, the main change in a new organisational structure in the wake of the French dairy group’s acquisition of the cheese maker.
Sodiaal’s takeover of Entremont took effect on 3 January and the revamp will be officially presented in the next couple of weeks.
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The new company has been named Jura Gruyère and until now has been part of Entremont’s mainstream cheese-making division led by its flagship product, emmental.
“Sodiaal reckoned that Entremont’s speciality and AOC cheeses merited greater visibility and independence,” a spokesman for Sodiaal told just-food today.
Headquarted in Poligny, in the Jura region of eastern France, Jura Gruyère processes 25,000 tonnes of product annually, generating a turnover of EUR165m.
It will be one of three divisions, within Entremont, the others being mainstream cheese-making and Euro Serums, a company making powdered products and whey. “There are no real changes to announce with these two division, the existing structures are being maintained,” the spokesman said.
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By GlobalDataHe added that that the three divisions combined represented an annual turnover of around EUR1.4bn.
