Fromagerie Bel Portugal

Bel Portugal is the cheese market leader in Portugal due our semi-hard cheese business and also have a strong expertise on Edam, Gouda and Cheddar type cheese. We produce the two biggest cheese brands in Portugal, Limiano and Terra Nostra and are a dairy Company producing besides cheese, butter and UHT milk.

We have 3 production units that all together produce more than 16.000tons of cheese (of which 4000tons of Private label), 2.000ton of butter and 33million Liters of UHT milk and we still have avalilable capacity for more brands, including more than 7.000tons of cheese.

Our factories are modern and highly automatized and because we take very seriously Quality , Food Safety and Environmental areas, we are certified in OHSAS 18001, ISO 14001 and ISO 22000. We are also certified in ISO 10002.

Our operation in Azores includes two plants where we can produce cheese, butter and UHT milk.

We are sure that the best dairy must be made with the purest cow raw milk and we believe that the purest cow raw milk comes from our Azorean milk producers.

Azores are a nature jewell  in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, where there are no pollution, the life pace is according to nature cycles, the land has a vulcanic origin, the climate is mild and it rains every day that keeps Azores beutifully green.

The diary atlantic rain with the rich vulcanic soil allows the growing up a rich green pasture, ideal to our cows to live and grow free, happier and healthier producing a more natural milk that we transform in superior cheese, butter and UHT milk. 

Bel Portugal has a partnership program with its producers in order to guarantee that ALL our RAW MILK comes from cows that have 365days of free grazing and are grass fed based.

For us a sustainable dairy business means respect. Respect for nature, ecological equilibrium, for animal welfare and respect for consumers expectations on having more natural and sustainable products.

365 days FREE GRAZING method is not the easiest. We are very proud to ensure it by having an internal expert team that works together with our producers to guarantee it and to be able to communicate it to the consumer on our products, through a specific logotype.