Ornua Businesses Meadow Cheese and The Cheese Warehouse to Merge

28 Oct 2015 --- Ornua has announced that two of its UK-based businesses, Meadow Cheese and The Cheese Warehouse, are to merge from January 2016. The new business will be named Ornua Ingredients UK and will focus on being a leading supplier of cheese and dairy ingredient solutions to the food manufacturing and foodservice sectors.

The combining of the two businesses will create a business with the necessary scale and complementary capabilities to provide customers with a comprehensive range of quality products, category insight, greater NPD & innovation, and enhanced levels of customer service and support.

The new business will be headed by Chief Executive Dr Aidan Wilson, currently Managing Director of The Cheese Warehouse with Michael Harte, currently MD of Meadow Cheese, assuming the role of Managing Director.

Commenting on the merger Joe Collins, MD of Ornua’s Trading & Ingredients Division said, “Both Meadow Cheese and The Cheese Warehouse have strong reputations for developing and delivering a range of high quality products tailored to the needs of their food manufacturing and foodservice customers. By combining the respective strengths and capabilities of the two businesses, Ornua Ingredients UK will have a strong platform from which to expand its customer base and establish itself as one of the UK’s foremost suppliers of dairy ingredients.”

Ornua Ingredients UK will be headquartered in Ledbury and employ some 200 staff across two sites. It will supply customised dairy ingredients, grated natural cheese and processed cheese in a range of innovative formats to the food manufacturing and foodservice sectors.