Processing equipment company Gemak has been awarded the contract for Project Dragon to manufacture, install and commission a whey processing and concentration facility and a cheese C.I.P. plant for South Caernarfon Creameries (SCC) as part of its £15m...
Artisan cheese-maker Jackie Whittaker of Castell Gwyn Limited is expanding her North Wales manufacturing business with a £13,000 ($17,470) investment in her own micro-dairy.
Calon Wen, a Welsh farmers’ cooperative based in Pembrokeshire that produces milk, butter and cheese, has become the only European cheese certified as organic by the Japanese Government.
Red Boat Ice Cream, which has four ice-cream parlors across Anglesey and north Wales in the UK, has invested £400,000 ($544,000) in a new ice-cream production lab at its Llangefni hub on Anglesey.
KPMG has been appointed as joint administrators to GRH Food Company Limited, a Snowdonia-based cheese processing business that has laid of all but four of its staff after suffering cash flow issues.
Essentra, which makes beverage, dry foods and dairy packaging, has entered a consultation process to close a factory in Newport, Wales, affecting 150 jobs.
Welsh dairy company South Caernarfon Creameries has announced it has been awarded the contract to supply UK supermarket Sainsbury’s with its Basics Cheese range.
The Welsh dairy sector is “under siege”, with unprecedented numbers of farmers quitting the sector in recent years, in large part due to unfair contracts with processors.
The operators of the first dairy to be built in Wales for 75 years say they have earmarked the sales potential of added-value ingredients in addition to cow’s milk.
A Welsh minister has launched a £3.3m (€3.96m) five-pronged project to support the domestic dairy industry and improve supply chain efficiency and realise energy savings.
Irish dairy co-operative, Dairygold, has pledged to fight any court
action brought against it in Wales over the closure of its cheese
packing plant in the country.
One of the leading UK milk co-operatives, Dairy Farmers of Great
Britain, has announced it is to launch a new line of Cadog branded
Welsh cheddar cheese, supported by a line of bilingual packaging.
But will niche brand status alone...
An MP from North Wales has urged the government to take note of
angry Welsh dairy farmers who he says will take to the streets if
retailers do not offer them more money for milk production.
