Errico Auricchio built a company using Italian artisan methods, passed down generation-to-generation, to create specialty cheeses that have been sold in 45 countries
In a board meeting room dominated by a framed oil painting of his great grandfather, Errico Auricchio tells the story about his audacious entrepreneurial dream. In 1979, he left Italy with his wife and young children to craft specialty cheeses with the same artisan methods his family had used for 100 years.
“The idea was to start a cheese company in America, find a good manager and go back to Italy,” Auricchio explained.