Ohio-based Biery Cheese buys Kickapoo Valley Cheese in Wisconsin

LOUISVILLE, Ohio — Biery Cheese Company of Louisville, Ohio, has purchased the Kickapoo Valley Cheese Corporation, based in Sherry, Wis.

Kickapoo Valley Cheese is a cheese packaging company that provides a variety of specialty slicing and packaging services. Kickapoo works with standard commodity cheeses as well as with a variety of specialty, organic, kosher, and rBGH free cheeses.

Biery Cheese Co. was founded in 1929 by Norman F. Biery, who started out making Swiss cheese in Louisville, Ohio. The company has evolved from a manufacturing company to a packaging, processing, and distributing company providing chunks, shreds, slices, diced, cubes, and snacking cheeses to its customers.

For over 84 years, Biery Cheese has been servicing customers in all sectors of the cheese business: retail, foodservice, and ingredient.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.