It was founded in 1953 in Plymouth, Wisconsin by Leonard Gentine and Joseph Sartori. The company name is a combination of Sartori and Gentine, with an "o" added to make the name sound Italian, as the company specialized in Italian-style cheeses.

Our headquarters in Plymouth is located in the heart of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. In Plymouth, we have our corporate offices, manufacturing as well as our trucking operations. Plymouth is where it all began, starting with the Plymouth Cheese Counter in the 1940s which became Sargento in 1953.

Sargento® Creamery Shreds & Slices are a line of real, natural cheese that delivers an amazing melt thanks to the simple addition of real cream. They are the perfect choice for those cozy, indulgent, at-home meals.

Lou Gentine Lou Gentine is Chairman of the Board and a second-generation family owner of Sargento Foods Inc., a leading national marketer of cheeses and cheese-based solutions headquartered in Plymouth, Wisconsin.

Sargento has established a reputation as an innovator of products, packaging and merchandising, being the first to market shredded natural cheese, sliced natural cheese & natural cheese blends. We'll leave you with a fun fact: the Sargento name is a combination of the two founders' names: Joseph Sartori and Leonard A.

1953 Sargento Foods has been a leader in cheese since 1953. We created the world's first successful prepackaged sliced and shredded natural cheeses. Today, we manufacture and market amazing shredded, sliced and snack natural cheese products, as well as ingredients.

Sargento® cheeses are natural cheeses made with the traditional cheese making methods (directly from milk usually by curdling the milk with enzymes and pressing the curd). “Natural cheese” is an established term within the cheese industry to distinguish these cheeses from “process cheese”.

• American. American is a creamy, smooth cheese made from blending natural cheeses.
• Asiago. Asiago, a nutty-flavored cheese, comes in two forms: fresh and mature.
• Blue Cheese.
• Bocconcini.
• Brie.
• Burrata.
• Camembert.
• Cheddar.

Inherited from Old Spanish sargente, from Middle French sergent, from Old French sergeant, sergent, serjant, sergient, sergant (“sergeant, servant”), from Medieval Latin servientem (“servant, vassal, soldier, apparitor”), from Latin serviēns (“serving”), present participle of serviō (“to serve or to be a slave to”), ...

Dutch: nickname from been 'leg' probably denoting a cripple. Dutch: occupational name for a butcher either metonymic from been 'bone' or shortened from beenhouwer 'butcher'.

Sargento cheese Slogans: Sargento. We're real cheese people. Taste the real difference.

Fresh cheeses, such as cream cheese or queso fresco, are made by direct acidification. Most types of cheese, such as cheddar or Swiss, use rennet (an enzyme) in addition to the starter cultures to coagulate the milk. The term “natural cheese” is an industry term referring to cheese that is made directly from milk.