The Grana Padano PDO Protection Consortium approved the 2025 financial statements and confirmed a year of record performance for the world’s best-selling PDO cheese, underpinned by robust sales, export growth, and strategic promotional investments.
Summarizing the financial results, General Manager Stefano Berni described 2025 as a historic year. “Despite a slowdown in wholesale prices in the final part of the year, 2025 turned out to be the best year ever—unexpectedly even better than 2024, thanks to strong wholesale cheese prices,” he said. “The only downside was overproduction, with growth of around 8%, driven by exceptionally high cheese prices.”
Production across the Consortium’s 134 dairies rose to 6,053,690 wheels, prompting corrective measures adopted at the December 18 assembly. “These rigorous decisions will certainly lead to a slowdown in production in the second half of 2026,” Berni explained. “This is also because growth in the same period of 2025 was frankly ‘crazy,’ at +12%.”
SALES SURGE AND GLOBAL LEADERSHIP CONFIRMED
The strategy has already produced positive market effects. “The decline in prices—still at a good level—is driving very strong sales, with double-digit growth in the first quarter of 2026,” Berni noted. “Once again in 2025, Grana Padano proved to be the most profitable destination in the world for silage milk, a record confirmed in the first quarter of 2026.”
Exports also maintained a positive trajectory, rising by 3% with more than 2,757,000 wheels exported.
Looking ahead, the Consortium’s President Renato Zaghini expressed confidence in continued growth. “The scale of promotional and advertising investments in Italy and abroad approved last December will ensure that 2026 is also a strong year,” he said. “We are therefore convinced that in 2026 Grana Padano will further strengthen its leadership in terms of volume among all PDO products, both in Italy and globally.”
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