First Milk (company)
[9] First Milk has two cheese creameries within Great Britain, one located at Haverfordwest in Wales and one in Aspatria, within the Lake District in Cumbria.In 1997 Scottish Milk Ltd acquired the Isle of Bute, Campbeltown and Arran Creameries and the Mauchline cheese packing plant.In 2002 First Milk acquired a 20% stake in its current Haverfordwest Creamery in Wales, a part of a joint venture with Dairy Crest.[17] In 2006 First Milk Cheese Company purchased the Haverfordwest[18] and Lake District sites, as well as a packaging and ingredients plant at Maelor.[21] 2011 saw First Milk purchase Kingdom Cheese Dairy Companies,[22] as well as enter a joint venture with Fonterra to produce whey protein concentrate at its Lake District Creamery.[24] In 2014 First Milk agreed a strategic and long-term partnership with Adams Foods (now Ornua) to provide hard cheese for sale in retail within the UK.In 2021, as part of the company’s renewed focus on sustainability and environmental improvement, First Milk invested in Agricarbon; an organisation which measures the carbon content of soil.