Lactogal is a Portuguese

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 food products company focused on dairy product

Dairy product

Dairy products are generally defined as foods produced from cow's or domestic buffalo's milk. They are usually high-energy-yielding food products. A production plant for such processing is called a dairy or a dairy factory. Raw milk for processing comes mainly from cows, and, to a lesser extent,...

s, milk

Milk

Milk is a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals before they are able to digest other types of food. Early-lactation milk contains colostrum, which carries the mother's antibodies to the baby and can reduce the risk of many...

, fruit juice and mineral water

Mineral water

Mineral water is water containing minerals or other dissolved substances that alter its taste or give it therapeutic value, generally obtained from a naturally occurring mineral spring or source. Dissolved substances in the water may include various salts and sulfur compounds...

. It is headquartered in Porto

Porto

Porto , also known as Oporto in English, is the second largest city in Portugal and one of the major urban areas in the Iberian Peninsula. Its administrative limits include a population of 237,559 inhabitants distributed within 15 civil parishes...

 and is placed among the twenty largest agro-food Europe

Europe

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an companies. It has major factories in Oliveira de Azeméis

Oliveira de Azeméis

Oliveira de Azeméis Municipality is located in Oporto Metropolitan Area in Portugal. It has a total area of 163.5 km² and a total population of about 70,000 inhabitants. The city itself has a population of more than 15,000. Oliveira de Azeméis is part of Oporto Metropolitan Area and it is located...

 and Vila do Conde.

History

It was founded in 1996 by the fusion between the three largest Portuguese companies in the sector: AGROS - União das Cooperativas de Produtores de Leite Entre Douro e o Minho e Trás-os-Montes, UCRL (headquartered in Vila do Conde; founded in 1949); LACTICOOP - União das Cooperativas de Produtores de Leite entre Douro e Mondego, UCRL (headquartered in Aveiro; founded in 1962); and PROLEITE/MIMOSA S.A. (headquartered in Oliveira de Azeméis

Oliveira de Azeméis

Oliveira de Azeméis Municipality is located in Oporto Metropolitan Area in Portugal. It has a total area of 163.5 km² and a total population of about 70,000 inhabitants. The city itself has a population of more than 15,000. Oliveira de Azeméis is part of Oporto Metropolitan Area and it is located...

; founded in 1973). The company acquired the Spanish company Leche Celta in 2006, and in 2007, Lactogal was planning to complete before 2010 a new factory in Oliveira de Azeméis.

Factories in Portugal

• Tocha – milk
  Milk
  Milk is a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals before they are able to digest other types of food. Early-lactation milk contains colostrum, which carries the mother's antibodies to the baby and can reduce the risk of many...
  
   collecting and juice
• Oliveira de Azeméis
  Oliveira de Azeméis
  Oliveira de Azeméis Municipality is located in Oporto Metropolitan Area in Portugal. It has a total area of 163.5 km² and a total population of about 70,000 inhabitants. The city itself has a population of more than 15,000. Oliveira de Azeméis is part of Oporto Metropolitan Area and it is located...
  
   – yogurt, UHT milk, cream
• Vila do Conde – UHT milk, butter, cream and yogurt
• Sanfins
  Sanfins
  -Portugual:* Sanfins -Portugual:* Sanfins -Portugual:* Sanfins (Chaves, a civil parish in the municipality of Chaves;* Sanfins, a civil parish in the municipality of Santa Maria da Feira;* Sanfins (Valença), a civil parish in the municipality of Valença;...
  
  (Sever do Vouga
  Sever do Vouga
  Sever do Vouga is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 129.6 km² and a total population of 12,977 inhabitants, and 11,354 electors...
  
  ) – cheese
• Aviz – cheese, butter
• Leça
  Leča
  Leča is a village situated in Novi Pazar municipality in Serbia....
  
   – pasteurized milk
• Lousado – milk collecting that is stored in order to be sent to Vila do Conde's factory
• Macedo de Cavaleiros
  Macedo de Cavaleiros
  Macedo de Cavaleiros is a municipality in northeastern Portugal, in Bragança District.-History:During antiquity, the region was occupied by the Celts, then Romans and finally the Arab forces of the Umayyad Caliphate, who dominated the region until the Christian Reconquista...
  
   – UHT milk
• Azores
  Azores
  The Archipelago of the Azores is composed of nine volcanic islands situated in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, and is located about west from Lisbon and about east from the east coast of North America. The islands, and their economic exclusion zone, form the Autonomous Region of the...
  
  – cheese

Source: Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação

Brands

• Mimosa (diverse dairy food)
• Agros (diverse dairy food)
• Gresso (diverse dairy food)
• Vigor (diverse dairy food)
• Pleno (milk)
• Matinal (diverse dairy food)
• Adágio (yogurt)
• Fresky (fruit juices)
• Águas Serra da Penha (mineral water)
• Primor (butter)
• Castelões (cheese)
• Serra Dourada (milk)
• Milhafre (milk and butter)
• Leche Celta (diverse dairy food)