Azul, Buenos Aires province, Argentina

Luz Azul

A dairy house that has been making cheese in the same town for more than fifty years, and now sells it through its own shops.

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  • Over 50 years
  • 70+ franchise stores
  • Made in Azul

What you can ask us for

Three ways people work with us. None of them are bought on this page — send the form and we will call you back to go through it.

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A shop of your own

Our franchise format: a dairy counter stocked from our plant, with the fit-out, the range and the training laid out before you sign anything.

  • Store format and fit-out guidance
  • Product range set by the plant
  • Staff training on cutting and storage
  • Ongoing supply from Azul
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Wholesale and foodservice supply

Regular deliveries of our cheeses and dairy lines to shops, kitchens and distributors.

  • Standing weekly orders
  • Whole wheels or portioned
  • Cold-chain delivery
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Buying at the counter

Our cheeses are sold over the counter in our franchise stores, cut in front of you rather than pre-wrapped on a shelf.

  • Soft, semi-hard and hard cheeses
  • Cut to the weight you ask for
  • Everyday dairy lines alongside
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Prices depend on the range, the volume and the season, so we quote them on the call rather than here.

Fifty years in one town

Luz Azul has been a dairy business in Azul, in the province of Buenos Aires, for more than fifty years. That is long enough for the work to have been handed between generations of the same plant: the same water, the same milk from the same part of the province, and a lot of people who learned the job from whoever stood at the vat before them.

In 2012 a new team took over the direction of the company, brought in from the cheesemaking industry rather than from outside it, and the business changed shape. What had been a regional dairy started planning like a national one — first by fixing what it made, then by deciding how it would reach the people who eat it.

The answer was not a supermarket shelf. It was our own counters, staffed by people who know what they are cutting, stocked from a plant that knows exactly where each wheel came from. There are now more than seventy of those stores around the country, and every one of them is supplied from Azul.

How the work is actually done

Milk from the province

The raw material comes from the dairy region around Azul, so it reaches the plant the same day rather than after a long haul.

Cut at the counter, not pre-packed

In our stores cheese is portioned in front of the customer, to the weight they ask for. It is a slower way to sell and a better piece of cheese.

One plant, every store

There is no second source. Every franchise counter in the network is stocked from the same production hall in Azul.

A plant rebuilt, not patched

Two years of work turned the old facility into a modern line, with the maturing and cold-chain capacity the store network needs.

Franchisees we keep talking to

Partners get the format, the training and the supply plan up front, and a direct line to the plant afterwards.

The rebuild, and what it was for

Over the last two years the dairy plant in Azul was taken apart and put back together. The work was presented with the people who run it and the people who work in it standing in the same room, which is roughly how the decisions were made in the first place.

The point was not modernity for its own sake. A store network of this size only holds together if the plant behind it can produce consistently, mature properly and dispatch on time, week after week, to counters that are hundreds of kilometres apart. So the investment went into the production line, the maturing capacity and the cold chain — the unglamorous half of a cheese business.

Alongside it the franchise model was reworked as well: a clearer format for a new store, a defined range, and training that starts before the doors open rather than after. If you are thinking about opening one, that conversation begins with the form below.

Tell us what you are after

Franchise, wholesale supply or a question about the range — leave your details and we will call you back.

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Where we are

Address

Azul, Buenos Aires province, Argentina

Hours

The plant is in the city of Azul, in the centre of Buenos Aires province. Our products are sold through the franchise stores around the country rather than from the plant gate — if you are looking for the nearest counter, ask us through the form and we will point you at it.