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Dairy Crest Group plc is a leading British dairy products company. Its brands include Cathedral City Cheddar cheese, Country Life butter and milk, Utterly Butterly, Vitalite, Clover and Frijj. The company delivers milk to around 715,000 households via their milk&more doorstep delivery business. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. ==History== Dairy Crest was established in 1981 as the processing arm of the Milk Marketing Board.〔(Dairly Crest History )〕 In 1983 the company launched ''Clover'', its dairy spread.〔 In 1991, the company established a joint venture with French dairy company Yoplait called ''Yoplait Dairy Crest'' (often abbreviated to YDC) which is 51% owned by Yoplait and 49% by Dairy Crest and which distributes Yoplait brand products in the UK.〔 In 1995 it bought the ''Cathedral City'' brand of cheese from Mendip Foods Ltd.〔 The business was privatised in August 1996 and Dairy Crest was listed on the London Stock Exchange.〔 In July 2000 it acquired the dairy and cheese products division of Unigate in London〔 and in November 2002 it acquired the St Ivel spreads company which had been based in Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire.〔 In September 2004 it went on to acquire the ''Country Life'' butter brand from the English Butter Marketing Company.〔 In July 2006 it acquired Express Dairies from Arla Foods for £33m. In October 2006, it sold the majority of its own label cheese business to First Milk, its Scottish equivalent, along with the creameries and factory that produce most of the products concerned.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC NEWS - Business - Dairy Crest sells cheese business )〕 In January 2007, Dairy Crest bought St Hubert for £248 million securing the ''Cholegram'', ''Le Fleurier'' and ''Omega 3'' brands, which are among the top selling spreads in France, and the ''Vallé'' brand which is the market leader in Italy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dairy Crest buys St Hubert from Uniq )〕 In July 2013 Dairy Crest sold its doorstep delivery operations in the Northwest of England to Creamline Dairies who will operate the milk rounds from the Warrington, Flixton, Stockport and Macclesfield depots and whose subsidiary Mortons will operate all those in the Wirral, Chester and Liverpool.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Creamline FAQs - General FAQs - Help and Support )〕 On 6 November 2014, Dairy Crest announced a big slump in profits and the sale of its milk business, which processes and distributes milk, to Germany's Müller for £80 million. It came as profits at the UK's largest dairy food company fell 95% to £900,000 in the six months to September. Dairy Crest's milk business will be combined with Müller's UK subsidiary Müller Wiseman Dairies. The sale was approved by the Competition and Markets Authority on 19 October 2015, and is due to be completed on 26 December 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dairy Crest」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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