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Dairy Farmers enters receivership | Dairy Farmers enters receivership |
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Dairy Farmers of Britain (DFOB), which employs 2,200 people and is responsible for 10% of UK milk production, has appointed receivers. | |
DFOB is an agricultural cooperative with 1,800 member farmers who supply over one billion litres of milk a year. | DFOB is an agricultural cooperative with 1,800 member farmers who supply over one billion litres of milk a year. |
Its workers are based in Blaydon, Nantwich, Lincoln, Llandyrnog, Bridgend and Lubborn. | |
The receivers are trying to sell the cheese and milk businesses as well as maintaining milk collections. | |
"What is most important now is that the supply chain is maintained through to our consumers, that jobs are saved, and that there is a home for our members' milk," said Lord Grantchester, chairman of DFOB. | "What is most important now is that the supply chain is maintained through to our consumers, that jobs are saved, and that there is a home for our members' milk," said Lord Grantchester, chairman of DFOB. |
The cooperative closed its Fole and Portsmouth dairies in November last year but it has struggled to pay its member farmers a competitive price for their milk and large numbers of them have been resigning. | The cooperative closed its Fole and Portsmouth dairies in November last year but it has struggled to pay its member farmers a competitive price for their milk and large numbers of them have been resigning. |
DFOB has lost the milk contract from Co-operative supermarkets, which has made the restructuring process so far inadequate. | DFOB has lost the milk contract from Co-operative supermarkets, which has made the restructuring process so far inadequate. |
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