Saputo buys California cheese company

Saputo continues to expand. The Montreal, Canada cheese company is acquiring F & A Dairy of California. Saputo says it will continue to operate the Newman, California plant which employs 113 people and made about 60 million pounds of mostly Mozzarella cheese last year. The cash deal is expected to close on or about July 20th.

It was just over a year ago that Saputo acquired Alto Dairy Cooperative in Wisconsin and two years ago they bought Land O’ Lakes West Coast Industrial Cheese Business. Suputo employs more than 5,500 people in the U.S., Canada, Argentina and Europe with annual revenue of $3.6 billion.