Liquid products
Our liquid products business produces and markets a wide range of fresh milk and cream products.
Our activities
Dairy Crest is one of the largest purchasers of fresh milk in the UK. Across our business we seek to add value to milk by:
- Working closely with farmers and retailers to supply top quality milk and cream to the consumer
- Marketing and selling a number of brands, including St Ivel advance and Frijj, the UK's Number One flavoured milk brand.
- We also launched a range of Organic milks under our Country Life brand in August 2006.
We're committed to growing our market share by:
- Continually looking to innovate and develop our product portfolio
- Offering supermarkets and their customers a consistent supply of high quality milk and cream
- Implementing a continuous programme of category development
Developing our markets
Retailers
We sell milk and cream to key retailers including all the major supermarket chains.
Food service
We supply milk and cream to major restaurants and food service customers. We are continually looking to add value to their offering by developing new products.
Investing in our future
We have invested significantly in our production facilities to improve our quality and make the most efficient use of resources.
We have four dairies supplying fresh milk to supermarkets. These are based in Severnside, Chadwell Heath, Foston and Fenstanton. This gives us good geographical coverage of England and Wales. In addition we have a specialist cream manufacturing site at Chard in Somerset.
We now have two of the largest dairies in the UK, Severnside (Gloucestershire) and Chadwell Heath (Essex), which can process 500 million litres and 400 million litres of milk a year respectively.
Dairy Crest has a regional dairy in Fenstanton as well as a modern dairy in Foston in Derbyshire which opened in May 2002.
Dairy Crest has invested in developing a cream centre of excellence facility at Chard. This added value site will be focussed on developing and manufacturing innovative cultured, added value and fresh creams.
Dairy Crest also has three dairies situated in Hanworth, Nottingham and Liverpool, which primarily process fresh milk for doorstep distribution.
