Mmmm...Sausage. Sheboygan is certainly a sausage-lovers paradise. The local area is home to a great number of residents who trace their roots back to Germany. This highly concentrated German population has helped make Sheboygan the bratwurst capital! One of the best know exports of this area is Johnsonville Sausage Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

The company’s motto is “Sausage is All We Do.” The Johnsonville Sausage headquarters are proudly based in Wisconsin, and the company remains privately owned.

The Johnsonville sausage plant makes bratwurst, Italian sausages, fresh breakfast sausage links and smoked-cooked links. Johnsonville Sausages is the top sausage brand across the United States. The company employs about 1,300 people.

The company was founded in 1945 by Ralph F. and Alice Stayer. The company was named after President Andrew Johnson. The company grew into what it is today from a humble butcher shop. Johnsonville Sausage says the recipe actually comes from an old Austrian family tradition handed down over the years.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the company expanded its offerings into grocery meat markets.

Today the company offers many sausage products beyond the traditional Austrian recipe. It makes breakfast patties, Mexican chorizo, beer brats, cheddar brats and Polish sausage – just to name a few.