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It was announced in 2019 that Canadian dairy company Saputo Inc would be buying Dairy Crest. [13] The company was valued at £975 million, making each share worth 620p. [14] The transaction was completed on 15 April 2019. [15] At the time of the sale, Dairy Crest was the fourth largest dairy company in the UK based on turnover. [16]
By the late 1980s Dairy Crest Foods made a quarter of all the cheese eaten in the UK. [6] The site was bought by the Milk Marketing Board in 1979; in 1980 the processing division was divested as the new company Dairy Crest. In 1993 Dairy Crest decided to make Davidstow its main cheese manufacturing site, and invest £6m. [7]
Dairy Crest bought the brand from Mendip Foods Ltd in July 1995, [2] [3] moving production to Davidstow in Cornwall, which has neither city status nor a cathedral. [4] In 2019, Saputo bought Dairy Crest. [5] [6] As of February 2025, the cheese is manufactured at Davidstow Creamery and matured at the distribution centre at Nuneaton.
Saputo Dairy UK says it wants to move its operations from Kirkby Malzeard to the West Midlands. ... near Ripon, since the early 20th Century when a group of local farmers opened a dairy there ...
Saputo Inc. is a Canadian dairy company based in Montreal, Quebec, founded in 1954 by the Saputo family.It produces, markets, and distributes a wide array of dairy products, including cheese, fluid milk, extended shelf-life milk and cream products, cultured products and dairy ingredients and is one of the top ten dairy processors in the world.
Dairy Crest repeatedly broke the conditions of its wastewater permits at its Davidstow Creamery in north Cornwall between 2016 and January 2021. Dairy giant fined £1.5m for breaching pollution limits
Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited (also known as Devondale Murray Goulburn) was a dairy-processing co-operative corporation.In 2018, following financial difficulties and difficulties with suppliers over sustainable prices, the business assets were sold to Saputo Inc, a publicly-listed Canadian dairy company and later the trading name of the business was changed to AG Warehouse.
Davidstow Cheddar is a brand of Cheddar cheese manufactured by Dairy Crest, at the Davidstow Creamery in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, alongside Cathedral City Cheddar. [ 1 ] Production