Sonoma Cheese Company Gobbles Up Production Facility In Healdsburg

When Gerard and Susan Tuck decided to start a family business, they didn't do it the way most people might. The couple was living in Melbourne, Australia, with their three kids and Gerard was running the country's largest importer and distributor of artisan cheese. During his time with the company, the marinated goat cheese category became the biggest in the country and the Tucks saw an opportunity: If Australians loved this cheese so much, why wouldn't Americans?

At the same time, Gerard decided it was time to cross an item off his bucket list – to go to an American university – and was accepted into Stanford Business School.

"We just decided to come over here with the loose intention of, well, let’s see if it makes sense to come and make cheese here," Gerard said.

It turns out it did.

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