Wales’ Oldest Dairy Co-op Expands

The investment has been estimated to be worth £8.5 million pounds, and has been planned to nearly double production from 9,500 tonnes to 17,000 tonnes and create 10 new jobs.

Work will start in summer 2014 and end in summer 2015; current cheese production will not be affected.

Alan Wyn-Jones, managing director at South Caernarfon Creameries said, “As part of our strategic development, the Creamery initially announced plans for future investment at the site in autumn 2013. Since then, extensive due diligence has been carried out with the project gaining full board approval in June. The investment plans were communicated and discussed with our members in recent regional meetings and confirmed at our AGM on 16th July 2014.

“This is a very exciting period in the next development phase of our business and we are extremely grateful to our customers and members for their continued support. We are also grateful to the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Welsh Assembly Government for their support to this project.”