Associated Co-operative Creameries

Associated Co-operative Creameries (ACC), formerly CWS Milk Group, was a subsidiary and operating division of The Co-operative Group. It operated dairies throughout the United Kingdom and also doorstep-delivered milk to households.

Associated Co-operative Creameries Limited is an Industrial and Provident Society that was first registered in 1961,Cite web
url=http://mutuals.fsa.gov.uk/SocietyDetails.aspx?Number=15896&Suffix=R
publisher=Financial Services Authority
title=Mutuals Public Register, Associated Co-operative Creameries Limited, number 15896R
accessdate=2008-07-03] and became a subsidiary of the North Eastern Co-operative Society (NECS), a large regional consumer co-operative based in Gateshead. It became one of the largest milk processors and distributors in north east England.After NECS merged with the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS, now the Co-operative Group) in 1992, ACC absorbed CWS Milk Group, a milk processor and distributor based in Wales and north west England.Cite web
url=http://mutuals.fsa.gov.uk/SocietyDetails.aspx?Number=19337&Suffix=R
publisher=Financial Services Authority
title=Mutuals Public Register, North Eastern Co-operative Society Limited, number 19337R
accessdate=2008-07-03] The abbreviated trading name 'ACC' was adopted in 2001 when the milk and distribution operations were split.

By 2004, Associated Co-operative Creameries Limited, trading as ACC Milk, was the UK's fourth largest dairy business, when it was sold to yet another co-operative, Dairy Farmers of Britain of Nantwich, Cheshire, forming Britain's largest milk co-operative, and the UK's third largest milk processor. [Cite news
url=http://www.dairyfarmersofbritain.com/_Attachments/Resources/193_S4.pdf
title=PRESS RELEASE. £75 m acquisition of Associated Co-operative Creameries (“ACC”) from The Co-operative Group. Dairy Farmers of Britain (“DFB”) to become UK’s largest milk cooperative
date=
accessdate=2008-07-03
publisher=Dairy Farmers of Britain] [Cite web
url=http://www.oft.gov.uk/advice_and_resources/resource_base/Mergers_home/decisions/2004/dairy-farmers
title=Completed acquisition by Dairy Farmers of Britain Limited of Associated Co-operative Creameries Limited No. ME/1308/04
publisher=Office of Fair Trading
date=2004-12-03
accessdate=2008-07-03] ACC moved its registered address to Nantwich at that time.

ACC Distribution was the logistics division of The Co-operative Group and supplied not only stores belonging to The Co-operative Group itself but other co-operative societies. ACC Distribution is still owned by the Co-operative Group and is today known as Co-operative Retail Logistics.

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