Dairy Crest | 500 jobs at risk

Dairy Crest announced plans to shut a glass bottling dairy at Aintree, where 220 people work, and a site at Fenstanton in Cambridgeshire employing 250 people.

The company also said its contract to supply milk to Tesco would not be renewed when it comes to an end in July. Dairy Crest sells around 3% of its liquid milk to Tesco and insisted that the loss off the contract was not a factor in closing the dairies.

Instead, it said the closure of the Aintree plant reflected changing habits, as milk deliveries decline and people opt for plastic bottles and bags of milk over glass bottles.,,

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