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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. ... For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ... "Both the Wensleydale Creamery and our on ...
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
Some 200 Friendship Dairies workers are headed back to their jobs after agreeing to a new three-year contract with parent company Saputo Dairy.
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.
Its former processing division, Dairy Crest, remains in existence as a subsidiary of the Canadian firm Saputo Inc. [4] The Milk Marketing Board was finally dissolved in January 2002. The Scottish Milk Marketing Board was similarly dissolved in December 2003. Dairy UK is a current trade association representing the dairy industry in the United ...