Up until that time, most fans were round. The design caught on and provided a strong base for the business. The company now manufactures more than 100 different ventilation products and has expanded about 20 times since the Greenhecks built their first building on the site of an old horse barn. Marathon Cheese Corp. Despite being the biggest independent cheese processing company in the world, Marathon Cheese is not primarily a cheese-making company. It specializes in preparing cheese made by some of the biggest names in dairy products, such as Kraft and Land O'Lakes.
Cheese is brought in from all over the country to be sliced, diced, shredded, chunked and wrapped.
It is then shipped to all 50 states and several foreign countries. The company was founded in 1952 by Ray Goldbach who noticed a need for more conveniently packaged cheese while he was delivering large blocks of cheese to stores for another company. Today, the company packages more than 1 million pounds of cheese a day. It would take the 62,000 cows in Marathon County, Wisconsin's leading milk producing county, four days to produce the amount of milk used to produce the product packaged by Marathon Cheese each day. Today it employs 1,119 in Wausau and produces more than 1,000 products including scissors, paper edgers, rotary cutters, school and craft supplies, cutlery, lawn and garden tools and sporting goods.