Formerly | Dairy Crest plc |
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Company type | Limited Company |
Industry | Dairy Products |
Founded | 1981 |
Headquarters | Weybridge, Surrey, United Kingdom |
Key people | Tom Atherton (President And COO) |
Products | Cathedral City (cheese) Clover Petits Filous |
Revenue | £456.8 million (2018)[1] |
£71.4 million (2018)[1] | |
£149.5 million (2018)[1] | |
Owner | Saputo Inc. |
Number of employees | 1,097 (2018)[1] |
Website | uk |
Saputo Dairy UK, formerly Dairy Crest Limited, is a British dairy products company. It was created in 2019 when the Canadian company Saputo Inc bought Dairy Crest. Dairy Crest itself was created in 1981 as a spin-off of the Milk Marketing Board.[2][3] Its brands include Saputo Dairy UK, Cathedral City Cheddar Cheese, Country Life Butter, Utterly Butterly, Vitalite and Clover.
Dairy Crest processed and sold milk (wholesale and via doorstep deliveries) and owned the milkshake brand Frijj until the sale of that part of the business to Germany's Müller in 2015. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange as Dairy Crest plc, until it was acquired by Saputo in 2019.[4] Saputo rebranded the company under its own name later that year.