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Dairy Crest is the UK's premier chilled dairy foods company focused on building leading positions in branded and added-value markets across the dairy sector.

Dairy Crest Group plc was floated on the London Stock Exchange in August 1996.

The company operates in two divisions. The Foods division consists of spreads, cheese and fresh dairy products (via Yoplait Dairy Crest), while the Dairies division incorporates liquid products, household and ingredients.

Dairy Crest has over 7500 employees across 21 sites throughout the UK and Ireland, including the company's joint venture, Yoplait Dairy Crest.

Key brands

  • Spreads Clover, Utterly Butterly, St Ivel Gold, Country Life, Vitalite and WillowCheese Cathedral City, Davidstow, Wexford, Blue Cheeses from Hartington and Over the Moon
  • Liquid products St Ivel advance, Frijj, Rachel's
  • Fresh dairy products Petits Filous, Frubes, Yop, Weightwatchers

Dairy Crest sites

Cheese

  • Aspatria, Cumbria
  • Davidstow, Cornwall
  • Frome, Somerset
  • Hartington, Derbyshire
  • Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
  • Maelor, Clwyd, North Wales
  • Wexford, County Wexford, Ireland

Spreads

  • Crudgington, Shropshire
  • Kirkby, Liverpool

Liquid products

  • Chard, Somerset
  • Dairy Crest London, Chadwell Heath, Essex
  • Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire
  • Hanworth, Middlesex
  • Severnside, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire
  • Totnes, Devon

Fresh dairy products (Yoplait Dairy Crest)

  • Enfield, Middlesex
  • Yeovil, Somerset

Household

  • Aldershot, Hampshire

Ingredients

  • Philpot Dairy Products, Rayleigh, Essex

Distribution

  • Nuneaton, Warwickshire

Dairy Crest Group Head Office

  • Claygate House, Esher, Surrey

 

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