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Milk Link is planning to close its cheese packing plant at the Llandyrnog Creamery in Denbighshire with the loss of 93 jobs, in order to transfer the work to its site in Oswestry. 21-Sep-2009 Milk Link has won approval for revised plans to extend its cheese factory in Hampton, Cheshire, which will create about 19 jobs. 01-Sep-2009 Milk Link is planning to close its dairy production plant in Kirkcudbright, Dumfries & Galloway, by next January, with the loss of 121 jobs. 14-May-2009 Milk Link is to create 20 jobs at its Reece's creamery in Cheshire, following a £1m investment in new equipment. 06-Apr-2009 Milk Link is to sell its Staplemead Creamery in Frome to Andros of France, in order to focus on the production of skimmed milk powder and butter ingredients at the Westbury Dairies facility. 15-Sep-2008 Milk Link is planning to shed up to 40 of the 160 jobs at its milk processing plant in Crediton, Devon. 30-Apr-2008 First Milk and Milk Link are in merger discussions, in order to create a combined dairy co-operative that will be able to get better prices for their 4,250 dairy farmers. 08-Oct-2007 Robert Wiseman Dairies is to acquire the Newlands Farm fresh milk business, including dairies at Pensilva and Okehampton, from Milk Link for £5.5m. 07-Jun-2006 Milk Link is planning to shed about 40 jobs at its milk plant in Kirkcudbright, Dumfries. 12-Jan-2006 Milk Link is to close the former Tanners milk plant in Sible Hedingham, Essex, next year, with the loss of 70 jobs. 14-Jul-2005 Glanbia is selling its UK cheese operations to Cheese Company Holdings, a new joint venture company set up by Milk Link and Glanbia, for £80m. 24-Feb-2004 Milk Link has acquired Peninsula Milk, the Okehampton-based liquid milk processor with 75 staff, for undisclosed terms. 20-Jan-2004 Milk Link, the farmer-owned dairy co-operative, has acquired Newlands Farm, the Liskeard-based producer of the Cornish Dairy brand, for undisclosed terms. 24-Dec-2003 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 Milk Link, the dairy farmers co-operative, is planning to spend up to £150m on the acquisition of milk processing plants and the expansion of its distribution network. 13-Aug-2001
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