Our business models

Our business models

Glanbia's US Cheese & Global Nutritionals business model incorporates cheese and nutritional solutions. US Cheese is a business-to-business, large scale, low cost, world-class producer that we operate 24/7, 365 days of the year. US Cheese has a strong relationship with our 50:50 joint venture in New Mexico, Southwest Cheese.

Derived from cheese processing is a large captive whey pool which is a key raw material for Global Nutritionals. Through the use of innovation, a focus on growth sectors and markets and expansion in nutritional solutions, Global Nutritionals is building a global business.

Glanbia has three businesses based in Ireland aligned through their relationships with the Group's Irish farmer supply base. Agribusiness produces and sells a wide range of farm inputs, including animal feed, to the Group's farmer suppliers who produced 1.8 billion litres of milk in 2010. This is the key raw material for Glanbia's Dairy Ingredients and Consumer Products businesses. 83% of the milk supplied is processed by Dairy Ingredients primarily for export markets while 17% is processed by Consumer Products into fresh dairy products and liquid milk for the Irish market.