It is a large cooperative made up many smaller ones, based on the Argentine "central milk basin" around the border between the provinces of Santa Fe and Córdoba.

After a long financial crisis, which forced the company to sell several plants and brands, and losing 3,200 employees, SanCor is now producing 10% of its 2015 output.

Its first industrial plant (a butter factory) was opened in 1940, in Sunchales, Santa Fe, where SanCor's administrative headquarters are located today.

In 1986, a daughter company, SanCor do Brasil Produtos Alimentícios Limitada, was founded in São Paulo, Brazil.

[7] [8] [9] [10] 2004.9, SanCor Cooperativas Unidas Limitada (SanCor) and Dairy Partners Americas Argentina S.A. (DPAA) created a joint venture (“Unión Transitoria de Empresas”) for the production, distribution and commercialization in Argentina of yogurt, fresh cheese (ricotta, petit suisse and cream cheese), fermented milk, custards, deserts and fluid and flavored milks.