Gossner Foods is one of the largest

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manufacturers in the

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, and is based in

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Overview

Gossner Foods specializes in producing varieties of

, but makes about 30 types of cheese all together. The company also produces UHT shelf stable milk for retail sale, and for the

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. Gossner Foods has a contract to supply UHT milk to American troops stationed around the world. The company is

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in Logan, and has a second plant in Heyburn,

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, and employs more than 600 people. Gossner buys milk from 300 farm families throughout Utah and Idaho. As of 2018, the

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is Kristan Jo Earl.

History

Edwin Gossner Sr. was born in 1909 in the eastern region of Edliswil-Waldkirch,

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. In 1930, he moved to

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, to work in his brother's cheese factory. After a three-year apprenticeship learning the techniques his brother acquired at the Swiss Cheesemaking School of Switzerland, Edwin took over the factory. The factory burned down in 1937, so Gossner moved to California, where he worked for the Rumiano Cheese Company. In 1941, Gossner opened a cheese factory in

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, Utah, a location he chose because the

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and

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resembled that of Switzerland, and because of the abundant supply of local milk. In 1946, his factory was the largest Swiss cheese factory in the world, producing 120

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of cheese each day. In 1966, Gossner founded the current company, Gossner Foods.

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