Our Company

Sargento Foods Inc.

One Persnickety Place

Plymouth, WI 53073

Directions to our Elkhart Lake, Kiel and Hilbert facilities

Sargento Foods Inc. is a family-owned company comprised of three business divisions: Consumer Products, Food Service and Food Ingredients. The company employs approximately 1,300 people at four Wisconsin facilities: Plymouth, Kiel, Hilbert and Elkhart Lake.

The Consumer Products Division is a leading national packager and marketer of shredded, snack and specialty cheeses sold under the Sargento brand, cheese and non-cheese snack food items and ethnic sauces.

The Food Service Division is a producer of custom cheese products that are tailor-made to the specifications of many national restaurant chains. These products include natural sliced and shredded cheeses and breaded appetizers.

The Food Ingredients Division provides custom cheese products to meet the needs of other food manufacturers. These products include sliced, shredded and diced cheeses, portion control packs, fillings and sauces.

Stakeholder Value

At Sargento, we believe in a concept of ownership that goes beyond our stockholders to include the other important contributors to our success. We include as stakeholders not only our stockholders, but also our employees, customers, community, and suppliers. Although clearly different from that of a stockholder they each have a meaningful stake in our company. Because of this, we recognize the importance of evaluating the impact of our decisions on each of our stakeholders.

Code of Business and Personal Ethics

We Will Be Legal: We recognize the authority of legal constraints and our obligation to be in conformance with both the spirit and the letter of the law.

We Will Be Moral: In our public and private lives, we will strive to give precedence to that which is right over that which is merely expedience or convenient.

We Will Be Honest: To warrant the trust of all with whom we come in contact, we must ourselves be unflinchingly honorable in whatever we think, do, or say.

We Will Be Respectful: Whatever our station in life may be, we will respect in others of all ranks those virtues and strengths of character which we collectively and individually endeavor to exemplify.

We Will Be Responsible: To each other and to those outside Sargento, we will strive to fulfill both the obvious and the unenforceable obligations we owe to all whom we serve and with whom we work.

We Will Be Fair: In regard to decision-making at all levels, we will strive for maximum objectivity and evenhandedness with all those whose lives we touch.