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Saputo Dairy UK, the trading name of Dairy Crest Limited, is a British dairy products company. It was created in 2019 when the Canadian company Saputo Inc bought Dairy Crest. Dairy Crest itself was created in 1981 as a spin-off of the Milk Marketing Board .
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.
LONDON -- Dairy Crest Group (ISE: DCG.L) -- the company behind brands such as Clover, Country Life, FRijj, and Cathedral City -- edged up 0.3% this morning, on release of a trading update for the ...
Following a period of poor profitability, the business was acquired in March 2003 by Arla Foods, [6] who in turn sold it on to Dairy Crest in July 2006. [7] Dairy Crest sold its deliveries business to Creamline Dairies in July 2013, and its milk processing business to Germany's Müller in December 2015.
Cheddar cheese has been produced at Davidstow for over 70 years; the plant was set up there in 1951 by Cow & Gate.Milk is supplied by 300 farms in Cornwall and Devon, all within a 50-mile (80 km) radius.
Muller's Chadwell Heath milk production site (formerly Dairy Crest) In July 2013, the company announced the closure of its depots in Keith and Whitburn because of a significant reduction in the number of delivery runs from each site. In October 2013, Müller Dairies’ Droitwich dairy, one of the biggest in their portfolio, was damaged by a fire.
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