Mark Davis

DIRECTOR

Mark Davis is the CEO of Davisco Foods International, Inc., headquarted in Le Sueur, Minnesota. Davis represents the second generation of the Davis family in the business and has worked his entire 40-year dairy career in the family’s third generation food processing business. He is a graduate of Minnesota State University in Mankato.

Davis says the Minnesota Agri-Growth Council represents the diversity of the state’s food and agriculture industry. Agri-Growth membership provides the company with valuable industry connections, networking opportunities and access to important decision makers.

Davisco Foods International is a 65-year-old company founded by Mark’s father, Stanley Davis.  What began as a small creamery, making butter from farm separated cream, is now a five-factory cheese manufacturer and food ingredient processor with manufacturing facilities in Minnesota (three), South Dakota (one) and Idaho (one). Davisco also has sales offices in Eden Prairie, Minn.; Mexico City; Geneva, Switzerland; and Shanghai, China.

Besides manufacturing cheese daily, Davisco produces and distributes dairy ingredients, derived from the by-products of its cheese production factories, worldwide; to the food, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and cosmetic industry.  The company also does toll processing for various food companies, large and small.