Sargento

The story of Sargento is best told through our employees - the #SargentoFamily. Our heritage of innovation and passion for cheese was featured on ABC's 'World News Tonight with David Muir' as part of its 'Made In America' series. Our family-owned company spans 3 generations and has revolutionized the dairy case with the ingenuity and determination of America's Dairyland. We take great pride in our employees and our Wisconsin roots across 5 locations: Plymouth, Elkhart Lake, Kiel, Hilbert and St. Cloud. The nationally televised segment highlighting our employees, one of our patron farms and our CEO Louie Gentine beautifully captured our people, pride and progress as we celebrate 70 years and look ahead to our bright future. Check it out below! #SargentoFamily #CEO #Innovation #MadeInAmerica

Sargento has been a proud sponsor of Honor and Remember for over 10 years, most recently to benefit the Deprey family of Green Bay. The personalized hand stitched and embroidered flag serves as the public national symbol of remembrance to honor the sacrifices of our military fallen. Since its unveiling in 2008, the Honor and Remember flag has been presented to over 5,100 Gold Star families. Sargento retiree John Sablan who volunteers for the Honor and Remember organization presented the flag to the Deprey family at a family reunion attended by nearly 80 people. The flag itself was presented to Jim Deprey, brother of PFC, Donald J. Deprey who was killed on Luzon Island in the Philippines during World War II.  PFC Deprey served in General MacArthur's famous return to the Philippines. Jim Deprey is the youngest of 15 children and the last surviving sibling.  Although Jim was very young when his brother died, he said the family always remembered Donald and often shared memories of him.  Recalling his brother, Jim said his brother Donald, who was just 19 and barely out of high school, died on his mother's birthday. "I could see that even after 79 years since his passing the emotion still run deep in Jim," said John.  “I'm privileged to have met a lot of special families through Sargento sponsoring Honor and Remember.  It was an honor to pay tribute to PFC Donald Deprey and his family.  It's a blessing to have been a part of the Sargento family for 25 years and still carry-on our culture of always giving back to our community.” We thank John for continuing to live our value of Community Outreach during his retirement. #SargentoFamily #honorandremember #communityoutreach #culture

Recently the Sheboygan Press interviewed retiring executives Kristi Jankowski and Mike McEvoy who looked back on their careers and how innovation played a key role in their professional success and overall growth for our company. Ahead of their retirements in January 2025, Kristi and Mike offer words of advice and gratitude for the #SargentoFamily in a very personal profile that was picked up by Yahoo! Finance. Click to read: https://lnkd.in/gHvCmwEV #MondayMotivation #Innovation #ThoughtLeadership #csuite

One of the oldest rivalries in pro football plays out within the #SargentoFamily. CEO Louie Gentine is the ultimate Green Bay Packers fan, while COO Michael Pellegrino roots for the Chicago Bears. Since the #Packers Super Bowl title in 2011, out of the last 28 match ups between the two teams, the Green Bay Packers have won 25 times - which means Michael has owed Louie (and Louie's dad Lou) several $20s per the terms of their friendly wager.🤑🧀   Although these leaders may be a team of pro football rivals, we value different perspectives at Sargento - and a little Humor and Fun!   Sargento is the Official Cheese of the @Packers. For every Packers TD we donate $2,000 toward hunger relief in Wisconsin through our 'Touchdowns for Hunger' program. Since 2002, we’ve donated more than $1.85 million to fight hunger. So far this season, the Packers have scored 25 TDs bringing our donation to $50,000.   #SargentoFamily #GBvsCHI #TDforHunger #GoPackGo

Following more than 28 years of service with Sargento, Vice President of Total Rewards Sherri Samuels-Fuerst has announced her intent to retire in the Spring of 2025. We thank Sherri for the invaluable impact she has had on our company. She has served in a range of roles within the Human Resources department and as an Occupational Health Nurse. Combining her passion for employee wellness with her expertise in healthcare, Sherri spearheaded the creation of our on-site health and wellness centers.   Succeeding Sherri in this role is Steve Dunman, an accomplished HR professional with more than 20 years of Human Resources experience. With a passion for creating rewarding, innovative and supportive work environments, Steve was drawn to the Sargento legacy of investing in our employees in many ways including our Total Rewards program.   Congratulations, Sherri, and welcome Steve!   Learn morehttps://lnkd.in/gAizv5nX   #SargentoFamily #leadership #totalrewards #retirement

“Innovation leads to community impact” was the theme of EVP and Advisor of Innovation Kristi Jankowski’s remarks today at the Calumet County Connect event. Kristi, along with other C-Suite community leaders, spent the day at Round Lake Farms to share ideas on leadership, team-building, and other ways that help businesses grow. Former U.S. Representative Reid Ribble led the discussion around the importance of family and how family is the most influential community there is - where everything is learned and formed. We couldn’t agree more. #SargentoFamily Cc: Hilbert Plant Manager Steve Laehn, Hilbert Assistant Plant Manager Curt Velvikis, Kristi Jankowski, Director Corporate Public Relations Portia Young, Public Relations Co-Op Autumn Lentz #CalumetCounty | #leadership | #cheese

We're feeling good this Friday because Sargento is the leading cheese snack in C-Store *and* our new product innovation coming in 2025 - Sargento Shareables - was voted a 'Top 10 Cool New Product' at the NACS convention in Las Vegas last month! Our sales and marketing teams were among industry peers demonstrating our proven leadership in natural cheese and how our innovation grows the entire natural cheese category. In addition to our track record of successful innovation, we also stood out by wearing some of the cheesiest blazers around! 🧀 #SargentoFamily CC: Erin Price, Brian Ginn, MBA, Chris Regennitter, Elly Udovich, Daniel Clarfelt, Christopher Houser #innovation #cheese #snacking #NACS24 #feelgoodfriday

Today the #SargentoFamily brought Humor and Fun to our annual Halloween parade. Our CFO Jeremy Behler took us back to the future, acting as Doc. His teams from strategy, finance, accounting, IT, tax, treasury, project management, pricing, and demand planning gave it their all. The marketing team dressed up as various jargon terms and the HR team was Minions as well as characters from Inside Out. We can’t forget about our Legal (and Safety) Eagles! #SargentoFamily #halloween #workcostume

It’s our 71st anniversary! We’re so proud of our family-owned roots, quality promise, and our commitment to the best tasting, real, natural cheese since 1953. Thank you to our employees, the #SargentoFamily, for helping us live what we love every day. Swipe to see some of our favorite moments from over the years, including: 🧀 Our founder Leonard Gentine earning the dairy industry’s highest honor surrounded by his family 🧀 Introducing the vacuum seal 🧀 Our “Persnickety” campaign in the early 1980s 🧀 Introducing to the world resealable packaging for a perishable food product 🧀 Sargento employees winning a massive #Powerball jackpot (and still showing up to work the next day!) 🧀 Launching our breakthrough snack ‘Balanced Breaks’ 🧀 Becoming the first corporate sponsor of @habitatmke 🧀 Seeing our Sargento story featured this summer for the relaunch of ABC World News Tonight’s Made In America’ #SargentoFamily #anniversary #happybirthday #familyowned #cheese

Today kicked off our Fall Town Halls. This demonstration of Effective Communication allows for #SargentoFamily members on every shift at every location to hear the same company updates from our leaders Louie Gentine and Michael Pellegrino. They discussed current projects, shared upcoming innovation, and hosted a live Q&A. #SargentoFamily #effectivecommunication #innovation