Milk Link is the UK’s largest cheese manufacturer, producing over 20 varieties of award winning cheddars, Blue Stiltons and British regional cheeses for the retail, food service and ingredients sectors. We employ over 1,200 staff across five cheese and dairy processing facilities and our consumer packing facility at Oswestry, Shropshire.
Our Creameries
Taw Valley Creamery (North Tawton, Devon)
The Creamery produces a full range of award-winning Cheddar, Red Leicester and Double Gloucester. At the 2008 Royal Welsh Show it was awarded Best Regional Cheese for its Red Leicester as well as winning 13 awards at the Nantwich International Cheese Show. Taw Valley is also the home of Tickler, a fabulous extra mature cheddar named Supreme Champion at the 2008 Royal Welsh Show, and produces organic cheese under the Yeo Valley Organic brand. For further information please visit www.tawvalleycheese.co.uk.
Tuxford and Tebbutt Creamery (Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire)
The Creamery is one of only six in the world making Stilton (for which in 2008 it was named Best Blue Cheese at the Great Yorkshire Show) supplying national customers including Sainsbury's and M&S. It also produces Blue Shropshire and Leicester Gold. For further information please visit www.tuxfordandtebbutt.co.uk.
Reece’s Creamery (Malpas, Cheshire)
Reece’s Creamery produces a wide variety of delicious, quality territorial cheeses including award winning Cheshire, Caerphilly, Lancashire and Wensleydale. The cheeses are handmade by experienced cheese makers using traditional methods and family values. Some automation is used to reduce manual handling and to ensure quality and consistency. 43 staff are employed on the site. For further information please visit www.reecescheese.co.uk.
Lockerbie Creamery (Scotland)
Lockerbie produces Cheddars, Red Leicester, butter and a half-fat cheese. 2009 saw the Creamery win the title of Supreme Champion for its Lockerbie Butter at the Royal Highland Show. For further information, please visit www.lockerbiecreamery.co.uk.
Llandyrnog Creamery (North Wales)
Llandyrnog is best known for its award winning Cadog brand of Welsh Cheddar and butter. Cheddar has been made on the site since the 1920s and is still made to jealously guarded traditional Welsh recipes. As well as Cheddars, Llandyrnog produces Red Leicester and Double Gloucester cheeses. For further information about Cadog, please visit www.cadog.co.uk.
Oswestry Packing Facility
Milk Link also operates a leading cheese processing and packaging business, and can supply cheese in a wide variety of formats, shapes and sizes.
The purpose-built cheese cutting operation runs around the clock packing 800 tonnes every week of the nation’s favourite cheeses into a range of consumer-friendly formats. The site, which employs around 350 staff, also serves as the central distribution hub for Milk Link's cheese business and handles in excess of 8 million cases of cheese per year. Oswestry takes great pride in delivering service levels in excess of 99.5% to the UK and worldwide markets.
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