At home all over the World

In 1931 the first cheese factory of the Hochland group was opened in Heimenkirch in the Allgäu. At this site, our employees manufacture processed cheese and process and package hard and semi-hard cheese.

Heimenkirch, about 20 kilometres from Lake Constance, is today the headquarters of Hochland SE, Hochland Deutschland GmbH and Hochland Natec GmbH.

Hochland SE is the parent company of the Hochland Group, steering the international subsidiaries.

Hochland Deutschland GmbH is responsible within the group for the German brand business. Hochland is represented in all major cheese segments with the well-known cheese brands Hochland, Almette, Grünländer, Patros, Valbrie and Gervais. The portfolio includes processed cheese, cream cheese, hard and semi-hard cheese, soft cheese, feta cheese, cottage cheese and quark with herbs.

Bonifaz Kohler GmbH is the company within the Hochland Grupo which specialises in marketing self-service cheese products for the retail trade’s own brands. This sales and marketing company works with virtually all the well-known European retail companies.

Hochland Natec GmbH supports food manufacturers worldwide with innovative technology. It designs, builds and delivers complete plants for the production, processing and packaging of food. The engineering company exists since 1974.

Schongau is situated in the Alpine foreland of Upper Bavaria, very near the famous royal castles of Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau.

The Hochland plant, built in 1997, is one of the most important production sites for cream cheese and white cheese in Europe. Here we produce, among other products, the delicious alpine cheese for the Almette brand. Since 2017, all cheeses from the Schongau plant are non-GMO products.

Oberreute is located in the Western Allgäu region, near the touristic route “German Alpine Road”.

Under the Simply V brand, E.V.A. GmbH develops, produces and sells plant-based cheese alternatives and is now the market leader in this segment. The portfolio includes alternatives to semi-hard cheese, grated cheese, cream cheese and curd.

The municipality of Hergatz is located in the border triangle of Germany - Austria - Switzerland. It is only 15 kilometres to Lindau on Lake Constance.

Since July 2020, vegan cheese alternatives have been produced at the second E.V.A. GmbH location in Hergatz.

The Fromagerie Henri Hutin is situated among the hills of Lorraine near Verdun. Founded in 1922, the cheese plant became a member of the Hochland Group in 1978.

Creamy soft cheese specialities, some of them under the popular Valbrie brand, and spicy cream cheese are manufactured here according to traditional recipes. Fromagerie Henri Hutin is the first major cheese manufacturer in France to have a non-GMO production.

Hochland Española mainly manufacturers processed cheese slices and grated cheese for pizza and pasta. The plant is situated in Viladecans near Barcelona.

The Spanish subsidiary was founded in 1981 together with the Spanish sales partner Grupo TGT.

Hochland began doing business in Central and Eastern Europe early on – and was instantly successful. Poland was the starting point. Hochland cheese is available on the Polish market since the 1990s. Today, Hochland operates two production sites in Poland and is market leader in cheese.

In Kaźmierz near Poznan, Hochland Polska operates a production facility for processed cheese.

Im Jahr 2002 übernahm die Hochland-Gruppe ein Werk in Węgrów. Die Käserei in der Nähe von Warschau stellt Frischkäse sowie Hart- und Schnittkäse her, unter anderem als Rohware für das Werk Kaźmierz. Wegrow hat 2017 die „Ohne Gentechnik“-Zertifizierung erhalten.

Since March 2021, the company headquarters of Hochland Polska Sp. z o.o. has been located in Poznań. The new offices are very modern and attractively designed. The company's tradition and successful brands play a significant role in the design concept. Naturally, great importance was also assigned to ergonomics.

In Romania, Hochland is the No. 1 processed cheese and cream cheese manufacturer. Since 1998 the company has been producing processed cheese for the Romanian market in Sighişoara in Transylvania. The factory is located in the middle of a traditional dairy area. Sighişoara is also the headquarters of Hochland România. The old town of Sighişoara has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999.

1999 übernahm Hochland in Rumänien ein zweites Werk. Es liegt in Sovata, rund 80 Kilometer nordöstlich von Sighişoara. Hier entstehen rumänische Spezialitäten wie Cascaval sowie Käserohware für die Produktion in Sighişoara.

Our main customers and partners of Hochland România are located in Bucharest. That's why the management of Hochland România as well as the marketing and sales division moved to the capital.

Hochland has produced processed cheese in Russia since 2000. In November 2003 Hochland put their own newly constructed plant into operation in Raos near Moscow.

In July 2011, Hochland took over a factory in Prokhorovka, near the Ukrainian border. Since mid-2012 it is a production site for cream cheese.

The production site in Belinsky, about 500 km southeast of Moscow, has been part of the company since November 2017. It is planned that it will produce branded retail products after reconstruction and will supply cheese as raw material for the processed cheese plant in Raos.