The cheese company excels at Natwich
The Cheese Company, the UK's second largest cheese producer, has confirmed its position as one of the UK's leading producers of high quality cheeses by scooping no less than 34 trophies and awards at the flagship Nantwich International Cheese Show 2004 - while also unveiling its new brand identity as part of the Milk Link Group.
Under the company's new logo, the impressive list of winnings included nine 1st prizes, seven 2nd prizes, and six 3rd prizes.
Taw Valley Creamery in North Tawton, Nr Okehampton, Devon achieved five 1st places, three 2nd places and three 3rd places. The majority of its wins were awarded to the creamery's range of excellent mature cheddars with recipes winning the first place in the Open Extra mature cheddar class; first place for its single Double Gloucester; first place for this round of the coveted Texel Trophy for single mature cheddar and first place for the single UK cheese, Mature Churnton.
Reece's Creamery in Malpas, Cheshire, also confirmed its position at the forefront of crumbly territorial cheeses, winning three 1st prizes, three 2nd prizes and three 3rd prizes. First prize went to its single Cheshire cheese, single crumbly Lancashire cheese and single Wensleydale cheese.
Newly appointed Managing Director, Neil Kennedy, commented on The Cheese Company's latest success; saying
"We were up against some very tough competition this year, and all our cheeses, not only from Taw Valley and Reece's creameries, but Lockerbie and Tuxford and Tebbutt too, all performed brilliantly. The Cheese Company is in an excellent position to improve even further on this success and we will continue to make high quality cheeses at our production facilities across the UK for everyone to enjoy. I for one am proud to have joined the company."
In addition, in the retail classes Iceland won 1st prize for its crumbly territorial cheese Wensleydale, and 3rd prize for its Cheshire cheese, which are both produced by Reece's; and 2nd prize for its Blue Stilton, produced by Tuxford and Tebbutt.
The Cheese Company manufactures over 20 varieties of cheddars, Blue Stiltons and British territorial cheeses for the retail, food service and ingredients sectors and employs over 1000 staff across four cheese and dairy processing facilities and its consumer packing facility and head office at Oswestry, Shropshire.
