Heartisan Foods
Investment Date:
May 2021
Exit Date:
Current
Headquarters:
Barron, WI
Footprint:
1 facility
Sector:
Specialty Cheese & Charcuterie
End Markets:
Retail, Foodservice, Direct to Consumer
Revenue:
>$40M
Seeking Add-Ons:
Yes (3 completed since inception)
Founded in 1991, Heartisan is an omni-channel market leader in smoked, flavored, and kosher all-natural cheese. With roots in both Wisconsin’s dairyland and New England, Heartisan brings time-honored cheesemaking traditions to each piece of cheese using decades of family experience. Heartisan utilizes a slow, meticulous, cold-smoking process with specially aged apple pulp and hardwood to create the perfect cheese.
Heartisan Foods includes Red Apple Cheese, a retailer of premium smoked and flavored cheeses, Barron County Cheese, a smoker and co-packer for the specialty chees industry, and Cheese Brothers, an innovative direct to consumer eCommerce specialty cheese business.
Add-Ons Completed
Red Apple Cheese
Red Apple Cheese is an industry leader in smoked and flavored gouda, gruyere, and cheddar cheese selling in over 10,000 retail locations across the United States. Generations of dairy farmers, cheesemakers, and retail partners have come together to help create Red Apple’s fine cheese.
Barron County Cheese
Barron County Cheese is in an industry leader in cheese packaging and conversion in the heart of Wisconsin’s dairyland, providing unmatched quality of service to customers through continuous improvement, teamwork, safety, versatility, and innovation
Cheese Brothers
Cheese Brothers is an innovative, direct to consumer eCommerce specialty cheese business with decades of family tradition in cheesemaking. Cheese brothers is proudly made in Wisconsin and was started by two guys from Wisconsin with an incredible passion for great cheese.
North Country Packaging
North Country Packaging specializes in small batch, hand crafted Wisconsin cheese including specialty cheese, cheese curds, and gourmet cheese spreads made with high quality ingredients.
https://www.northcountrypackaginginc.com/