SanCor
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| Cooperative | |
| Industry | milk, food |
| Founded | 17 September 1938 |
| Headquarters | Sunchales, Santa Fe, Argentina |
| Products | Dairy products |
| Website | www.sancor.com.ar |
SanCor is one of the leading dairy producers in Argentina (along with competitor La Serenísima). It holds one fifth of the total production in the country, and 90% of the Argentine exports of dairy products. It is a large cooperative made up many smaller ones, based on the Argentine "central milk basin" around the border between the provinces of Santa Fe and Córdoba.
SanCor produces milk, powdered milk, cream, cheeses, butter, yogurt, dulce de leche (milk caramel) and desserts, which are sold under various brand names: SanCor, San Regim, Las Tres Niñas, Tholem, Santa Brígida, Angelita, Granja Blanca and Chelita.
The cooperative was founded on 17 September 1938 as an association of many cooperative producers in the central area of the country, and grew as its success attracted more members. Its first industrial plant (a butter factory) was opened in 1940 in Sunchales, Santa Fe, where SanCor's administrative headquarters are located today. New plants, producing butter, cheese and dulce de leche, followed during the 1940s. In 1953, SanCor opened a branch office in New York City, United States, in order to boost its international trade operations; and in 1956, new branch offices were opened in Buenos Aires and other Argentine cities. In 1986 a daughter company, SanCor do Brasil Produtos Alimentícios Limitada, was founded in São Paulo, Brazil.
In 1994 SanCor became the first Argentine cooperative to issue its own negotiable instruments.
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