The world champion 2006, von Muhlenen, receives 13 awards at the World Cheese Award

Business Wire, June 17, 2006

LONDON -- pressetext: Earlier this year in April, the Von Muhlenen AG won with the Emmentaler and Gruyere Premier Cru three gold medals at the World Championships in Wisconsin USA, and with its Emmental Premier Cru they won the overall title of "Worlds Best Cheese" out of 1700 different cheeses.

At the world cheese award in England, Von Muhlenen participated with 13 cheeses with every cheese winning an award:

Gold certificates have received:

--Le Gruyere Premier Cru from the Struss dairy

--Le Gruyere Premier Cru from the Niedermuhren dairy

--Le Gruyere Classic from the Struss dairy

--Emmentaler Premier Cru, Classic from the Mutten dairy

--Alpine Bell

--White-Mountain

Silver certificate receives:

--Alpine-Aster Nature

Bronze certificates have received:

--Le Gruyere Premier Cru from the Lanthen dairy

--Emmentaler Premier Cru from the Mutten dairy

--Beech-tree-Mountain

--Alpine-Aster with herbs

--Le Gotteron

--Alpine-Rose

The success at the World Cheese Awards, underlines the excellent quality of all cheeses produced by von Muhlenen which enabled them to win in total 8 different World-Champion titles.

Emmental Premier Cru (4 times World Champion)

--World-Champion of all Categories in Madison, Wisconsin 2006

--World-Champion of the Swiss Style Category in Madison, Wisconsin 2006, 2004, 1998

Le Gruyere Premier Cru (4 times World Champion)

--World-Champion of "all Categories" at the World Cheese Awards in London 2005, 2002, 1992

--World-Champion of the Smear Ripened Category cheese in Madison, Wisconsin 2006

The Von Muhlenen family created its company and ripening cellars in 1861, and has ever since, been an important player in Swiss cheese making history. Von Muhlenen has through the decades remained a family operation, with modern facilities centrally located near Fribourg in Dudingen, a region famous for its Le Gruyere Fribourg, Emmental Switzerland and Raclette Fribourg. http://www.vonmuhlenen.ch

Cheeses by Von Muhlenen are produced exclusively with pure raw milk, using traditional ripening methods dating back some 140 years. Primary production is completed by a group of more than 50 dairies, in selected locations throughout Switzerland. http://www.photopress.ch/image/von%20Muehlenen