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Milk made to last, in several thousand local dialects.

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Bel Group

A 159-year-old cheese business didn’t scale with disruption—it scaled with Swiss processing, a cartoon cow, and a UK subsidiary in 1929.
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Lactalis

Lactalis didn’t build a dairy empire — it bought one, piece by piece, while its factories kept poisoning babies.

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