The private Bongrain group and cooperative Sodiaal aim to join forces in a cheese marketing organisation that will create synergies in all the major European markets.

EU anti-trust authorities still have to comment on the arrangement that features Sodiaal’s Les Fromageries Riches Monts cheese division (Les Rustique Camembert, Reverend Brie) and Bongrain’s cheese subsidiary La Compagne des Fromages (Coeur de Lion Brie and Camembert, ch