Within the previously all-powerful Swiss Cheese Marketing Union (USF), Emmental producers and dealers have formed a separate association.
The new union incorporates previously separate associations for milk producers, for cheesemakers themselves and for Emmental export organisations. The new association, whose members boast an annual output of some 50,000 tonnes, is believed to be planning to support investment in ultra-modern Emmental production plant and in advertising campaigns for the product in important export markets.