Global Responsibility

Great cheese. Good business.

We’re committed to doing things the right way—from the way we carefully craft our cheese to our best-in-class food safety programs.

Our global responsibility focus areas include:

Product responsibility – Our commitment to deliver high-quality, nutritious and responsibly produced products. Our approach to quality management focuses on prevention, continuous improvement and best practices. Our integrated food safety and quality systems enable our teams to adhere to regulatory requirements and customer and third-party standards, meet our internal requirements, and exceed customer expectations.

Supply chain responsibility – Our commitment to promote and ensure responsible practices is evident throughout our supply chain. We prioritize responsible sourcing and procurement by considering strategic significance, spend and associated risks. Our milk supply is our highest priority. We focus on these key areas: Supplier Assessment and Evaluation and Integrating Global Responsibility

Our people – Our commitment to ensure employee health and safety, while we promote an energized, empowered and engaged workforce. Safety Vision: To be the world’s safest food manufacturing company, driven by the world’s safest employees. Safety Mission: We will create a world-class safety culture through leadership, personal commitment and accountability. Together, we are all responsible to care for each other’s health and safety and are dedicated to preventing all injuries before they happen.

Environmental responsibility – Our commitment to compliance and the responsible use of natural resources runs deep. Our environmental management system (EMS) emphasizes compliance, conservation and continual improvement driven by employee engagement and ongoing integration of best practices and new technologies. The EMS includes companywide and location-specific policies, standard procedures, performance measurement and audit processes. Our team approach also includes third-party expert energy assessments to help identify ways we can save energy, resources and costs and to inform the development of plant-specific project portfolios.

Our communities – Our commitment to strengthen relationships and benefit communities close to home and beyond. One of our five Global Responsibility categories is to connect with and strengthen our communities. Our approach combines companywide efforts with employee-driven initiatives. 

In the end, everything we do connects back to our commitment to doing what’s right and delivering the most trusted and highest-quality products to our customers.