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Dairy Crest Dairy Crest is to roll out its Milk&More doorstep delivery service to 120 depots nationwide in April, allowing customers to order groceries online for delivery by their local milkman. 04-Feb-2009 Dairy Crest is creating 70 jobs at a new cheese packing facility at Bermuda Park in Nuneaton. 02-Oct-2008 Dairy Crest is planning to close its dairy and bottling plant in Nottingham with the loss of up to 215 jobs. 01-Oct-2008 East of England Co-operative Society is to close its dairy processing plant in Ipswich in March, with the loss of up to 58 jobs, but negotiations are taking place to transfer a further 300 jobs at other sites to Dairy Crest. 09-Jan-2008 Dairy Crest is planning to close its dairy in Totnes, Devon, with the loss of up to 164 jobs, in order to transfer production to Gloucestershire and East London. 15-May-2007 Dairy Crest is looking to shed up to 38 of the 600 jobs at its dairy products factory in Stroud. 14-Nov-2006 Dairy Crest is to acquire St Hubert, the French spreads supplier with 178 staff, from Uniq for £248m. 10-Nov-2006 Dairy Crest is to sell most of its own-brand cheese business to First Milk for £62m, including 750 staff at creameries in Wrexham, Haverfordwest and Aspatria in Cumbria. 28-Sep-2006 Dairy Crest is to acquire Express Dairies, including two dairies in Liverpool and Nottingham and 77 small distribution depots, from Arla Foods for £33m. 28-Jul-2006 Dairy Crest is to acquire the London Food Service business of Arla Foods, which includes food distribution sites in Ruislip, Bloomsbury and Nine Elms, for £4m. 17-Oct-2005 Dairy Crest is to shed up to 29 of the 210 jobs at its dairy in Totnes this summer. 21-Jul-2005 Dairy Crest is planning to acquire the country's largest regional dairy business from the Midlands Co-operative Society, which could lead to the closure of Dairy Crest's milk processing plant in Birmingham with the loss of 330 jobs. 04-May-2005 Dairy Crest is to close the Yoplait Dairy Crest own-label dairy desserts factory in Yeovil in June, with the loss of 260 jobs. 14-Jan-2005 Dairy Crest has acquired Coombe Farm Dairies of Sussex, and the milk bottling and processing plant will close with distribution moved to Dairy Crest sites in Eastbourne, Brighton and Worthing. 24-Nov-2004 Dairy Crest has announced a £4m deal to buy out its partners in the English Butter Marketing Company. 23-Sep-2004 Dairy Crest has lost a £60m-a-year contract to supply milk to Tesco, raising fears about possible dairy closures. 30-Aug-2004 Dairy Crest is to close its yogurts and cheeses factory in Enfield next year, with the loss of 320 jobs. 19-Jul-2004 Dairy Crest is to close its milk and juice processing facility at Newport on the Isle of Wight, with the loss of 37 jobs. 21-Jun-2004 Dairy Crest has sold its Kidlington-based chilled juice business to Princes for about £11m. 29-Sep-2003 Dairy Crest is to close the commodity dairy ingredients operation at its factory in Chard in July, with the loss of about 80 jobs. 29-May-2003 Uniq is to sell its St Ivel Spreads business, which includes a factory in Knowsley, to Dairy Crest for £86m. 01-Oct-2002 Dairy Crest has awarded a contract to Nampak to expand its polybottle manufacturing plant at Chadwell Heath and to build a new bottling plant at its Severnside site. 12-Aug-2002 Dairy Crest is to invest £49m at the Davidstow creamery in Cornwall, in order to expand production of its Cathedral City cheese brand. 14-Jun-2002 Dairy Crest and First Milk have announced a joint venture to boost milk supplies for cheese and whey production at the Haverfordwest Cheese site in Wales. 04-Jan-2002 Dairy Crest is to close a dairy in Basildon and a distribution centre in Dereham with the loss of about 230 jobs, in order to focus production on sites in Enfield and Yeovil. 17-Sep-2001 Dairy Crest is planning to spend up to £150m on acquisitions in the UK dairy sector over the next few years. 07-Jun-2001 Dairy Crest has acquired Somerset & Wiltshire Dairy, the organic milk group, for £2.5m. 20-Mar-2001 Dairy Crest has confirmed plans to invest £39m at its Severnside dairy in Gloucestershire with the creation of 320 jobs, but five other sites will be closed with the loss of 600 jobs. 01-Feb-2001 Dairy Crest has won planning permission to expand its Severnside Creamery near Stroud, which will involve a new blow moulding facility to produce plastic bottles and the creation of 12 jobs. 02-Jan-2001 Dairy Crest is to build a new dairy in the west of England and invest £15m upgrading its Chadwell Heath plant in east London, but other sites in west London and Northern Ireland will be closed. 17-Nov-2000 Dairy Crest has acquired Millway Foods, the speciality cheese company, for £2.5m. 03-Apr-1999 Dairy Crest has bought Longs Dairies for £4m, in order to strengthen its position as the leading supplier to doorstep customers in East Anglia. 14-Jan-1999 Dairy Crest is to set up a £33m national cheese maturation and distribution centre in Nuneaton by April 2000. 07-Dec-1998 Dairy Crest has completed a £5m expansion at its Maelor Creamery in Marchwiel, creating 100 jobs. 10-Sep-1998 Dairy Crest, through its joint venture with Sodiaal of France, is acquiring Raines Dairy Foods Operating Companies, the supplier of dairy products to supermarkets, for £66m. 06-Feb-1998 Dairy Crest has bought Anglia Dairies from Anglia Regional Co-operative Society for £4.6m. 05-Aug-1997 Dairy Crest has accused the Milk Marque sellers co-operative of being anti-competitive for trying to process its surplus milk into butter and skimmed milk powder, and says it should instead reduce prices to clear the surplus. 04-Jun-1997 Dairy Crest has reported that over 90% of the 29,000 farmers who indirectly own the company have decided to take shares rather than cash in the flotation. 23-Aug-1996 Dairy Crest, the milk processor, is to raise £90m in a syndicated loan in order to refinance borrowings and fund capital expenditure after its flotation. 07-Jun-1996 Up to 75% of Dairy Crest's shares will be offered to the 28,000 dairy farmers who indirectly own the company when it floats in the summer, with the remaining 25% going to institutions. 30-May-1996 Dairy Crest may be floated in June, and has acquired the remaining 55% of Mendip Foods, the cheddar packager. 08-Dec-1995 The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. 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