Who Is Lactalis? the French Dairy Giant Who Was Born in a Local Cheese Factory and Today Processes Argentine Milk Production Twice

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In order to understand Lactalis we have to go back to 1933, to a small shed in Laval, in the French west, where a young producer named André Besnier began to make Camembert cheese in an artisan way. It was a family venture, of those that began with a pair of milk tachos, restless hands and the obsession with making a cheese better than that of the neighbor. Nothing in that scene allowed us to imagine that, less than a century later, that rural c…