Lemnos now the big cheese

LEMNOS Foods was a small operation in Lang Lang before it became a leading food manufacturer based in Dandenong.
It was founded by two Greek immigrant brothers in 1969, employed only eight people at its peak and sold feta and haloumi cheese in Victoria.
Financial adviser Terry Paule bought Lemnos Food in the late ’90s and moved the operation to Dandenong South.
He, his brother and the company’s accountant formed a partnership and turned a small specialty cheese producer into a much larger food manufacturer.
In just a decade the business expanded its range to a variety of cheeses and other dairy products and it now distributes its products to Coles and Safeway supermarkets across the nation and supplies about 25 per cent of all the Feta sold in Australia each year.
Lemnos Foods now has 60 employees, exports to more than 30 countries and turns over more than $50 million a year.