Bunker Hill Cheese Co. Inc. – Family Business Looks to Expand to New Market

During Governor Bob Taft’s trade mission, May 13-21, 2003, Mark Garner, Lee Anne Dauwalder-Martin and Lisa Troyer of Bunker Hill Cheese Co., Inc., will visit Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey to develop business relationships with distributors and representatives of retail, institutional, food service and hospitality markets to sell their product line in Mexico. 

Company background. The family-owned and -operated manufacturing facilities and corporate offices of Bunker Hill Cheese Co., Inc. are located in Millersburg, one of Ohio’s largest dairy farming regions, where cheese-making is tradition. Bunker Hill Cheese Co., Inc. manufactures 35 varieties of high-quality, value-added, specialty cheeses. The company’s products are all natural and free of artificial growth-hormones. 

Current Markets. Bunker Hill Cheese currently sells to retail channels including supermarkets, natural food stores, gourmet/specialty markets throughout the United States, and directly to consumers via the Internet. A percent of business is also facilitated via institutional channels for value-added restaurant venues. The company currently markets products in the United States and Canada and expects to enter the Mexico market in 2003. 

Bunker Hill Cheese Company’s consumer-level products include both random weight and net weight prepackaged cheese in deli cuts, chunks, and slices.