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The Milk and Fontina
Cooperative Producers was founded in 1957
with the aim to collect, mature and
market Aosta Valley's most important
agricultural product: the FONTINA
cheese.
The founders members were at the
very beginning 46 while today the
number reaches the amount of 300
among private firms, cooperative
dairies and mountain pastures.
In 1958, during the first year or
activity the number of cheeses
delivered by the members where less
than 40.000, while today the amount
reaches 350.000 cheeses.
The cooperative is UNI EN ISO
9001:2000 certified and has a
turnover of about 20.0000€. The most
important market is the national one
in particular the northern Italian
market which represents the 80% of
the total turnover, followed by the
central Italian market (8%) while
South Italy and the islands
represents 2% of the sales.
United States, Germany, Switzerland,
France, Belgium and Great Britain
represents the most important
foreign markets with approximately
10% of the turnover; a small
quantitative is also exported to
Australia, Russia and Japan. |
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