Another DFoB Dairy Closes
Dairy Farmers of Britain receivers PriceWaterhouseCoopers have announced the closure of the company's plant at Blaydon on Tyneside, which employed around 290 people, after last-ditch attempts to find a buyer over the weekend failed.
The news comes hot on the heels of the announcement of the closure Bridgend dairy with the loss of 279 jobs on Friday, that facility was the last remaining major milk bottling plant in Wales.
Earlier last week the company's Lincoln creamery became the first casualty with 127 jobs lost there.
Dairy cooperative OMSCo has brought forward an existing agreement to take on DFoB's organic farmers from 1st July, and Milk Link has bought the failed company's Llandyrnog plant for an undisclosed sum.
The news comes hot on the heels of the announcement of the closure Bridgend dairy with the loss of 279 jobs on Friday, that facility was the last remaining major milk bottling plant in Wales.
Earlier last week the company's Lincoln creamery became the first casualty with 127 jobs lost there.
Dairy cooperative OMSCo has brought forward an existing agreement to take on DFoB's organic farmers from 1st July, and Milk Link has bought the failed company's Llandyrnog plant for an undisclosed sum.
