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Express Dairies Express Dairies is to close its Express Chilled dairy distribution depot in Swindon with the loss of 100 jobs, following its merger with Arla Foods. 22-Jan-2004 Express Dairies has secured a seven-year licence from Postcomm to deliver up to 46m business postal items a year, which could lead to new investment in its distribution network. 25-Apr-2003 Express Dairies has agreed terms for a merger with the UK division of Arla Foods, which could lead to annual cost savings of more than £20m. 28-Mar-2003 Express Dairies is to close its milk depot in Ellesmere Port depot and transfer some workers to its Blacon and Neston sites. 14-Mar-2003 Express Dairies has won a 12-month licence from Postcomm to use its milk floats to deliver up to 4.6m packages to households. 24-Jul-2002 Express Dairies has sold its UHT milk and Frome Creamery operations to Milk Link for £33m, and has also proposed a strategic alliance with the farmers' co-operative to supply chilled dairy products. 02-Jul-2002 Express Dairies is seeking a licence to deliver letters and parcels to households along with the milk, and has held discussions with Dutch post office TPG about possible sorting arrangements. 27-May-2002 Express Dairies has received a takeover approach from Arla Foods, which is owned by a Swedish farmers' co-operative. 29-Jan-2002 Express Dairies is to close its Linthorpe dairy in Middlesbrough in March, with the loss of 118 jobs. 17-Dec-2001 Express Dairies has sold its central Scotland dairy business to Graham's Dairies of Bridge of Alan for £0.5m. 21-Nov-2001 Express Dairies is to close a dairy in Durham with the loss of 109 jobs, while its Durham-based liquid milk business has been sold to Associated Co-operative Creameries for £5m. 06-Nov-2001 Golden Vale and Express Dairies are to sell their Dale Farm milk business in Northern Ireland to Dromona Quality Foods for £18m, with Express receiving 80% of the proceeds. 09-Oct-2001 Express Dairies is to form a liquid milk joint venture with Golden Vale to reduce excess capacity in Northern Ireland, which will involve the closure of Golden Vale's Lurgan plant and the transfer of production to Express's Ballymena plant. 13-Nov-2000 Express Dairies has announced plans to use its network of delivery centres and milk floats to deliver goods ordered over the internet, in a £4m venture called M-box. 11-Jul-2000 Express Dairies is in discussions with a number of e-commerce companies about plans to use milk floats to deliver goods bought via the internet. 02-May-2000 Express Dairies has sold Kirkwall Creamery to a local consortium, in order to secure 100 jobs and the future of Orkney Island Cheddar. 06-Apr-2000 Express Dairies is to close a dairy and depot in Birmingham and a distribution facility in Salisbury, with the loss of 370 jobs. 26-Jan-2000 Express Dairies is closing dairies in Birmingham, Hyde and Salisbury with the loss of 800 jobs, and has also announced plans to trial doorstep deliveries of bulky household goods. 11-Nov-1999 Express Dairies is to close its Salisbury dairy with the loss of 190 jobs, and production will be transferred to Ruislip. 22-Sep-1999 Express Dairies is seeking permission to introduce in-house bottling at its Sheffield Park dairy in Uckfield in partnership with Tetrapak, and the £11m project would create 50 jobs. 16-Aug-1999 Express Dairies is to acquire Glanbia's UK milk operations for £100m, which will give it an extra five plants and 2,000 employees. 02-Jun-1999 Express Dairies has acquired Star Dairies for £2.7m, in order to expand its business in the London area. 06-Mar-1999 Express Dairies is to invest £1m in the expansion of the Claymore Creamery in Nairn, which will create an unspecified number of new jobs and help the company with its plans to increase its share of the Scottish market from 8% to up to 25%. 11-Jan-1999 Express Dairies hopes to agree a merger with one of its competitors over the next year, in order to prepare for the expected consolidation in the dairy sector. 10-Jun-1998 The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. Click here for further details Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2009