Marathon Cheese Corporation

PROFILE Which firm has a reason to say "cheese" and mean it? Marathon Cheese, one of the world's largest independent cheese packagers. The company packages cheese for such clients as Kraft Foods, Land O'Lakes, and Schreiber Foods. It offers sizes from shredded and cubed cheese for consumer convenience to 22-pound blocks. Marathon Cheese packages about five million pounds per week of cheddar, Swiss, and other varieties. Ray and Marie Goldbach started the company in their basement in 1952; the Goldbach family owns the majority of Marathon Cheese.  COMPETITION Dairy Farmers of America (dossier) Great Lakes Cheese Company, Inc. (dossier) Leprino Foods Company (dossier)		FINANCIAL OVERVIEW Fiscal Year-End: June 2000 Sales (mil.): 580.00 1-Yr. Sales Growth: 8.4% Employees: 1,400 Revenue per employee: $414,285.71  KEY PEOPLE • Donald Menzner     CEO • Norbert Schumacher     CFO  CONTACT INFO 304 East St. Marathon, WI 54448 US Phone: 715-443-2211 Fax: 715-443-3843 Online: Web Site

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