(The plant and Original Babybel production was shown in a segment of the documentary series Food Factory USA).

At the time, Bel Brands projected that its 250 employees would produce 1.5 million Mini Babybel cheese wheels per day.

[4] In July 2018, Le Groupe Bel announced that the company had 12,700 employees in 30 subsidiaries around the world and that their first Canadian production facility would be in Quebec.

[5] The "Original", most popular,[6] Mini Babybel is an Edam-style cheese made from pasteurised milk, rennet, lactic ferments, and salt.

[7][8] Mini Babybel is known for its packaging, consisting of a netted bag in which each piece of cheese is encased in a blend of colored paraffin and microcrystalline wax,[9] inside of a cellophane wrapper made of wood pulp, cotton, or "other vegetation.