of britain type agricultural marketing cooperative founded 2002 2002 headquarters nantwich cheshire united kingdom area served united kingdom products milk cheese website dfob.co.uk dairy farmers of britain dfob was a uk co operative milk processor that bought milk directly from farmers and had several factories producing milk and cheese products for sale in various regions throughout the uk . the company was formed as a raw milk trading business milk broker in 2002 with the merger of the milk group and zenith milk . 1 dairy farmers of britain was the uk s leading dairy farmers co operative marketing almost 1.4 billion litres of milk per year from more than 2 000 member farms . in 2004 dfob became the third largest milk processor in the uk processing over 1.35 billion litres of milk each year into 600 different dairy products by purchasing tyneside based associated co operative creameries for 75 million from the co operative group . 2 key products included a branded range of fresh milk award winning cheeses in the cadog range and many other products such as butter cream and milk powder . in april 2007 it announced the intention to cease production at its creamery in whitby north yorkshire . the following year it was also announced that production was going to end at two more of its creamery sites fole near uttoxeter in staffordshire and portsmouth putting over 600 people out of work . dairy farmers of britain went into receivership on 3 june 2009 . 3 its farmer members lost significant sums of money but a number have at least managed to find alternative customers for their milk . 4 references edit milk group and zenith merge . the grocer . via ecnext goliath . 2002 06 22 . retrieved 2008 07 30 . dairy farmers buy 75m milk firm . bbc.co.uk . bbc news . 10 aug 2004 . retrieved 2008 07 30 . dairy farmers enters receivership . bbc.co.uk . bbc news . 3 jun 2009 . retrieved 2010 06 05 . crisis deepens for dairy farmers . bbc.co.uk . bbc news . 16 jun 2009 . retrieved 2010 06 05 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title dairy farmers of britain & oldid 714038861 categories agricultural marketing cooperativesformer co operatives of the united kingdomdairy products companies of the united kingdomcompanies based in cheshire2002 establishments in the united kingdom2009 disestablishments in the united kingdomfood and drink companies established in 2002food and drink companies disestablished in 2009dairy organizations navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 7 april 2016 at 07 50 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view