Who makes Kirkland Signature Cream Cheese (8 oz bricks, 6-count)?
As of August 10, 2026, evidence points to Schreiber Foods as the manufacturer of Kirkland Signature Cream Cheese (8 oz bricks, 6-count), but no tier 1–3 source names the link directly.
The common claim
What most answers say — and what the evidence supports
Top answers contradict each other. Content mills variously name Kraft Heinz, 'Lactalis American Group,' Schreiber Foods, or Franklin Foods, and the Lactalis version conflates Kraft Heinz's 2021 sale of its natural-cheese business to Lactalis - a deal that excluded the Philadelphia cream-cheese brand, which Kraft Heinz kept - so it does not even describe cream cheese. The Schreiber answer, long a bare guess, now has evidence behind it: as of August 2026, Costco's own product-listing data for the US 6-count item carries 'SCHREIBER FOODS INC' in its manufacturer field, so evidence points to Schreiber Foods - the second-largest U.S. cream-cheese producer and dominant private-label co-packer, whose Green Bay, Wisconsin base matches the label's Wisconsin-milk claim. No editorial or regulatory source yet corroborates the link, which is why the attribution is probable rather than confirmed.
Evidence & sources
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Tier 4
Costco's Business Delivery site serves the US item (#2001135810, 6 x 8 oz) and embeds catalog JSON whose manufacturer field names the finished-product maker: both item records with shortDescription 'Kirkland Signature Cream Cheese, 8 oz, 6 ct' carry mfName 'SCHREIBER FOODS INC', reproduced at two URL forms of the same PDP and verified present in the archived snapshot. This is the field that named diapers -> FIRST QUALITY and batteries -> DURACELL; costco.com itself blocks automated access, but costcobusinessdelivery.com serves the same catalog data. The value passes the sanity check: Schreiber Foods (Green Bay, WI) is the second-largest US cream-cheese producer and the dominant private-label co-packer, consistent with the label's Wisconsin-milk claim, and it absorbed cream-cheese specialist Franklin Foods' US business from Hochland at the end of 2025. Graded probable rather than confirmed because the internal catalog field is the sole route - no editorial, regulatory, or on-label source independently names the link, and the field can reflect a vendor of record rather than the plant. Prior sweeps (documented 2026-07-06): zero FDA recalls of Kirkland cream cheese ever; no CourtListener/RECAP filing names a co-packer; Schreiber's own June 2024 cream-cheese-spread recall (F-1289 through F-1296-2024) covered Dunkin and Essential Everyday but not Kirkland.
Frequently asked
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