Saputo Inc.

Saputo Inc.
Company typePublic
TSXSAP
IndustryFood - Major Diversified
FoundedSeptember 1954
FounderLino Saputo
Headquarters
Montreal, Quebec
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Canada
Area served
Canada, United States, Argentina, Australia, United Kingdom
Key people
  • Lino Saputo (founder)
  • Lino A. Saputo (chair and CEO)
RevenueIncrease C$17.843 billion (FY2023)
Increase C$1.553 billion (FY2023)
Number of employees
19,200 (2023)
Websitesaputo.com

Saputo Inc. is a Canadian dairy company based in Montreal, Quebec, founded in 1954 by the Saputo family. It produces, markets, and distributes a wide array of dairy products, including cheese, fluid milk, extended shelf-life milk and cream products, cultured products and dairy ingredients and is one of the top ten dairy processors in the world.[1][2]

The company has expanded predominantly through mergers and acquisitions. Its products are sold in over 60 countries worldwide.[3] It operated in Wales and Germany from 2006 to 2013.[4] It used to own the Canadian rights to Hostess Brands products.[5]

  1. ^ "Our Company". saputo.com. June 9, 2017. Archived from the original on June 6, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
  2. ^ "Top world dairy companies". dairyinfo.gc.ca. October 2, 2019. Archived from the original on April 20, 2021. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
  3. ^ "Shareholder Reports | Investors | Saputo". www.saputo.com|saputo.com. Archived from the original on November 26, 2021. Retrieved November 26, 2021.
  4. ^ "Saputo bailing out of European cheese market". February 25, 2013. Archived from the original on February 23, 2022. Retrieved February 23, 2022.
  5. ^ Popken, Ben (November 19, 2012). "Twinkie's last stand: It's up to a mediator". Lifeinc.today.com. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved November 15, 2013.