ZDENKA D.D.

Zdenka is a company with a long tradition in the cheese production. It was founded in 1897, in Veliki Zdenci – an agricultural and stockbreeding area with expressed milk production. Rich pastures were ideal conditions for milk production. The Dairy plant changed its name into Zdenka, after the ex owners’ daughter Zdenka. In 1945, after the World War II the company was nationalized and became the state property, as all other private factories in the country. An extremely intensive development began in 1970 when new buildings for a production of processed cheese and whey powder have been built. The factory was state-owned until 2008. Nowadays, 112 years after its establishment, Zdenka is privately owned and a respectable, specialized dairy plant for production of dairy products. It is a market leader and a synonym of processed cheese, with more than 70 % share in the segment of processed cheese at the Croatian market. Cheese is branded with the quality of Croatia.