The Green Bay, Wisconsin-based company owns and operates nine manufacturing plants, including the former Cappiello's plant in Schenectady. A company spokesman was not immediately available for comment. It is unclear if the new plant would produce under the BelGioioso brand or also the Cappiello brand as well. The Cappiello brand is well-known in the Capital Region and other parts of upstate, and its mozzarella cheese sells at places like Price Chopper side-by-side with BelGioioso brand cheese. The Cappiello family still owns an Italian specialty food shop on Broadway that is in front of the cheese plant. Cappiello Dairy on Van Guysling Avenue in Schenectady in 2011 and continues to make Cappiello cheese there. In a statement, Auriccho said the Glenville plant will make mozzarella and other cheese and will require the hiring of 50 additional local workers.īelGioioso bought the F. The company was founded in 1979 by Errico Auricchio. BelGioioso already operates the former Cappiello's plant in Schenectady and would add 46 new jobs and retain 31 existing local jobs as part of the expansion into the new plant under a deal brokered by New York state that would give the company up to $850,000 in state tax credits.īelGioioso already owns nine cheese plants, including the one in Schenectady, and makes 30 different cheeses.
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