Benefits & Rewards

Ours is a people business. We provide individuals with the independence and responsibility they need to deliver results and make a visible difference.

As the UK's leading dairy foods company we want all of our staff to benefit from our success. To help us realise this we have extended our bonus schemes to a greater number of staff and we aim to include everyone in the future. In 2009 we also invited all UK staff to participate in our three-year sharesave scheme.

Being valued and recognised at work is important to us. To improve in this area we launched a brand new reward and recognition scheme in January 2009, which gives staff the opportunity to nominate colleagues for an award.  In the first year of its introduction 392 staff received a bronze award and 13 staff received a silver award. The three gold award winners were chosen from these 13 silver ward winners. As well as celebrating individual achievements we also introduced a team of the year award.  Senior management chose the short list and a staff committee made up of volunteers selected the final winners.