BelGioioso Cheese currently operates eight manufacturing facilities,[1] each plant making particular cheeses that are manufactured, aged, finished, packaged, and shipped from the facility.

The company was founded in 1979 by Errico Auricchio, whose great-grandfather was a cheese manufacturer in Italy.

Auricchio started the company in Denmark, Wisconsin, where he produced his first cheese, provolone, in a rented cheese plant in Wrightstown, Wisconsin.

[1][2] In 2021, Belgioioso Cheese entered into a purchase agreement with Groupe Lactalis to purchase Polly-O from the latter, as a requirement by the US Department of Justice's antitrust review of Lactalis's purchase from Kraft Heinz.

[3] Today, the company produces twenty-eight varieties of cheese,[2] including, for example, the brand Polly-O.