Mini Babybel is a brand of small snack cheese products that are individually packaged and available in various flavours. It is a product of, a company with roots in the Jura region of France, started by Jules Bel in 1865.[1] Half of the global production of Mini Babybel is made in Évron, a commune in the northwest of France.[2]
In the United States, Le Groupe Bel produces the Mini Babybel cheeses in Kentucky.[3] In March 2016, Bel Brands USA opened a new plant in Brookings, South Dakota. (The plant and Original Babybel production was shown in a segment of the documentary series Food Factory USA). At the time, Bel Brands projected that its 250 employees would produce 1.5 million Mini Babybel cheese wheels per day.[4] In July 2018, Le Groupe Bel announced that the company had 12,700 employees in 30 subsidiaries around the world and that their first Canadian production facility would be in Quebec