Saputo beefs up non-dairy cheese and value-added ingredients with 2 acquisitions Saputo, which ranks among the top three cheese producers in the United States, said market factors south of the border negatively impacted the company’s earnings in the quarter ended March 31.One of the issues was the foodservice industry’s slow recovery in the U.S., which “did not come back in full strength,” said Carl Colizza, president and chief operating officer of North America for Saputo.“There are a significant amount — if not over 10 per cent — of the restaurant businesses that did not reopen,” he said during the call. “That’s a fact that we’re going have to deal with moving forward.”Saputo’s U.S.