Our Advantage
Quality Relationships, Quality Products
At Leprino Nutrition, the quality of our relationships is as important as the quality of our products and services. With years of experience, we wake up every day ready to apply our expertise, knowledge, and industry insights to solve our customers’ unique challenges and deliver top-quality nutrition ingredients that drive their success.
We believe that every customer is a partner, and every challenge is an opportunity.
Humble Beginnings
Our story began in 1950 when Mike Leprino opened a small, family-owned Italian grocery store in Denver’s Highlands neighborhood, where our global headquarters still stand today. Starting with ricotta, Mike soon began making mozzarella to meet the demands of the growing pizza industry. Over the next several decades, Leprino Foods expanded its mozzarella production, introduced new nutrition products, streamlined operations, and entered the international market.
Today, we are the world’s largest manufacturer of mozzarella cheese and lactose, with a vast global footprint and a loyal base of cheese and nutrition customers. As we look to the future, we will continue to move our 75-year legacy forward with passion and purpose.
The Leprino Family’s Journey
The Leprino family’s journey from Potenza, Italy, to becoming the world’s largest mozzarella and lactose manufacturer involved overcoming challenges and seizing new opportunities. This journey laid the foundation for what Leprino Nutrition is today.
Watch this short documentary to learn more about the unique and heartwarming story of the Leprino family business.
Words We Live by Every Day
“At Leprino Foods, we strive daily to be the world’s best dairy food and ingredient company, brought to fruition through our core values of quality, service, competitive price, and ethics—all things we know our customer partners appreciate and value.”
– JIM LEPRINO
Our Vision
We Are the Trusted Global Nutrition Solution – Purposefully Driven by Our People, Planet and Products to Inspire an Active and Healthy Lifestyle.
Our Mission
We Partner to Enrich the Global Nutrition Community by Empowering Brands with Exceptional Products and Service and Building Brands that Win.
What sets us apart
Trusted Products
We offer quality our customers can trust because of our high level of quality control at every step of the process. So, our partners can trust that our products deliver the nutritional benefits they rely on, day in and day out.
Global Scale
The right place and right time are essential parts of the nutrition supply chain, and our customers count on us to deliver quality ingredients at the volumes and competitive prices they need, anywhere around the globe.
Thoughtful Innovation
To us, innovation is more than research and development or keeping at the forefront of technology. To us, innovation is about the constant pursuit of what’s next and inventive product improvements. Here is where we apply our decades of experience to problem-solving for our customers.
Passionate Service
We love what we do, and it shows each day through our focus and attention to our customers which is our true point of differentiation in the industry. We are passionate about partnering with our customers to solve their unique challenges or to adapt our process to work with theirs.
Quality & Food Safety
As a leader in the dairy and nutrition ingredients industry, quality and food safety are a top priority. We invest millions of dollars each year in best-in-class food safety systems and designs and maintain an unwavering commitment to the highest safety standards and process control.
Our Global Footprint
- Our products are found in 79 countries across six of the seven continents, making our supply chain available for our partners all around the globe.
- We employ over 5,500 skilled, diverse, and passionate employees worldwide to help and support our partners whenever it’s needed.
- Our locations include our Denver-based corporate offices, 14 U.S. manufacturing facilities, four international manufacturing facilities, and sales offices in Asia. We are available across the globe to support our partners whenever they need it.
