Yeo Valley Organic

Yeo Valley Organic

Yeo Valley Organic is part of a family-owned farming and dairy company based in the village of Blagdon, in the Yeo Valley, Somerset, England, and in Cannington, near Bridgwater.

History

Yeo Valley founders, Roger and Mary Mead began making yoghurt, using milk from their dairy herd, in 1974, selling them from the gate of their farm and to local shops.

Production of organic yoghurt was started in 1993, as local farmers who were producing organic milk had difficulty finding a consistent demand for it. This first organic product was an instant success.

Yeo Valley encouraged more farmers to become organic, so that an increasing supply of organic milk would become available to cope with growing demand.

Today Yeo Valley Organic is a well-known organic dairy company, with many awards for product quality and innovation, and a Queen's Award for Enterprise presented in 2001 for the revolutionary way it worked with its farming suppliers, encouraging them to turn organic and giving them long-term ‘fair trade’ contracts. The firm won another Queen's Award for Enterprise, for sustainable development, in 2006 for its "Approach to management with continuing support for sustainable UK organic farming thereby minimising environmental impact". [cite web | title= The Queen's Awards for Enterprise: Sustainable Development 2006 | accessdate= 2007-06-12 | url= http://www.queensawards.org.uk/business/Winners/2006.html#sustainabledevelopment | work= The Queen's Awards for Enterprise ]

Products

The company is known most for its range of organic yoghurt, including fat-free, children's and fruit-flavoured varieties. It also sells liquid milk, cream, butter, cheese (including Cheddar, Double Gloucester and Red Leicester) and ice cream. As well as this, the company has diversified into making sweaters from wool from their sheep.

References

External links

* [http://www.yeovalleyorganic.co.uk Yeo Valley Organic website]
* [http://www.yeovalleyorganicwool.co.uk/ Yeo Valley Organic wool]
* [http://www.foodanddrinkeurope.com/news/ng.asp?id=17208-new-look-for New Look for Yeo Valley Organic]


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