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The CartoCan is 100% recyclable, reduces plastic waste and offers a convenient alternative to its 500ml glass bottle format.

Ideal for channels including convenience stores, wholesale, travel, food service, and hospitality establishments such as grocery stores, museums, public houses, colleges, air travel, trains. 

The Cartocan also provides a safer and more practical alternative option for stadium events and child-focused locations.

235ml is the perfect size for lunch boxes, vending machines and meal deals. It is also school-compliant with less than 5% sugar and has no artificial sweeteners, flavourings, colours or preservatives.

According to Circana data the UK’s flavoured milk category in the UK is worth estimated £628 million annually*, and Delamere is a big contributor to this, selling upwards of 20,000,000 units per year, which until now has only been available in 500ml and 240ml glass bottles.

Sales in convenience grew by 13% in the 52 weeks to October 2023, contributing 44% of total category sales.

The CartoCan can be stored at ambient temperatures and is best enjoyed chilled. It offers all the goodness and nutrients of normal milk and is a great source of protein, calcium and vitamin D and is available in its two best-selling flavours – Strawberry and Chocolate with Banana to follow in 2025.

Steven O’Connor, Senior Business Growth Manager at Delamere, commented, “Wehave long-since wanted to offer a different packaging option to our customers, and the CartoCan is perfect for reducing plastic waste and opens up new channels for distribution with an alternative to glass featuring our best-selling flavours. It will appeal to all ages and specifically children with its quality taste and high nutritional values.

“It is lightweight, has a slim, contemporary design to maximise shelf space, convenient, and fully recyclable with no compromise on the taste and quality that our loyal customer base has come to expect. The 235ml CartoCan delivers the same great flavour that has driven Delamere Flavoured Milk to the forefront of the flavoured milk sector.”

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The ICDAs took place on 30 June and with over 4,500 competing entries, Delamere collected 10 gold awards for its whole and semi-skimmed goats’ milks, strawberry goats’ yogurt, spreadable goats’ butter, its chocolate flavoured cows’ milk as well as a range of its multi award-winning goats’ cheeses. 

Delamere won six silver awards including two for its newly reformulated spreadable goats’ cheese in the ‘Best UK Soft Vegetarian Cheese’ and ‘Best Goats’ Cheese’ (other than hard pressed and mould ripened) categories.  

Completing the awards haul were six bronze awards for Delamere’s goat’s cheeses, yogurts and strawberry flavoured cows’ milk.  

Ed Salt, MD at Delamere Dairy commented, “It goes without saying that we are thrilled to receive such wide recognition for our range of goats’ dairy and flavoured cows’ milk products. The fact that our goats’ products came out on top against more mainstream dairy entries is a testament to the quality and flavour that goats’ products can deliver.” 

Delamere’s range of award-winning products are available in supermarkets and independent shops across the UK. With its latest listing, Delamere’s spreadable goats’ cheese will be available in Booths supermarkets from 11 July. 

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Taking place on 21 October and beating off competition from over 4000 entries, as well as recognition for its goats’ yogurt Delamere picked up gold prizes for its goats’ milk, cheddar style cheese and its newly reformulated spreadable goats’ cheese.

New for 2021, was the George B Lawrence MBE Trophy for the ICDA Supreme Champion Dairy Product and Delamere was delighted to win the accolade in its first year.

Ed Salt, MD at Delamere Dairy commented, “It goes without saying that we were thrilled to receive the Supreme Champion Dairy for our Goats’ Yogurt. The fact that our goats’ yogurt came out on top against more mainstream dairy entries is a testament to the quality and flavour that goats’ products can deliver. It was a great day for goats with the Supreme Champion cheese also being goat.”

Delamere Dairy’s plain goats’ yogurt won the Clawson Salver for the Best Yogurt in Show as well as the Supreme Champion Dairy Product. Keeping it company were the strawberry and honey flavoured goats’ yogurts which won silver and bronze awards respectively.

Newly reformulated in October 2021 and launched for the awards, Delamere’s spreadable goats’ cheese collected The Orchard Valley Dairy Supplies Trophy for the Best Soft Cheese in Show and The Cheese Company Trophy for the Champion Modern British/ Irish cheese. The cheese is fresh and creamy with a natural acidity and soft, spreadable texture. Judges commented on its excellent aroma, clean, fresh flavour and superb texture. Made at a family dairy in Wiltshire, the cheese is delicious straight from the pot on crackers, and is also extremely versatile for use in baking and cooking.

Finally, the key to success of all Delamere products, its whole goats’ milk collected a gold award and the ICDA award for Champion Milk in Show, beating competition from fresh and long life, raw and pasteurised, plain and flavoured milk from cows, sheep and goats. A real testament to the quality and mild flavour of Delamere’s goats’ milk.

Delamere’s range also collected gold, silver and bronze awards for its mild and medium cheddar style goats’ cheese, its semi-skimmed goats’ milk and its Greek goats’ cheese.

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The independent charity, a corporate foundation, has received an initial deposit from the Delamere Dairy business of £250,000 to create the initial pot, from which, charitable groups and organisations will be able to apply for grants ranging from £250 to £5000.

Projects that will be considered in the first phase include the advancement of agriculture and of environmental protection, the advancement in life of young people by developing their capabilities so that they may mature as contributory members of society, the relief of financial hardship, helping people to advance their education and the relief of sickness.

Ed Salt, managing director, Delamere Dairy and a Trustee of the Foundation comments: “Our business was born out of a desire to farm and today we continue to support our contracted farms through collaborative partnerships. As custodians of Delamere Dairy, our business activity should be geared towards stewarding the company for the future, with all stakeholders, including agriculture and the natural environment, benefiting.”

“The Foundation will be a great vehicle for helping others mobilise their efforts for those in need and to realise a number of worthwhile projects. Our overwhelming belief to do the right thing is founded in strong values and principals. The Delamere Dairy Foundation will sit at the heart of our business and be a catalyst for change.”

Grants will be awarded to a wide range of causes in England, Scotland and Wales and applications will be welcomed from charities and organisations whose purpose fits with the objects of the Foundation.

Christine Buckley, appointed to run the Foundation, said: “I am delighted to be supporting Ed and the Trustees to bring to their vision to fruition. Life can be a lottery and not everybody is given the same chances. I’m looking forward to facilitating the process, learning about the organisations and individuals that will thrive with its support and in turn, create an enduring legacy for the Delamere Dairy Foundation.”

The first grant panel will meet in the autumn for the first round of funding awards from applications received over the summer.

Groups wishing to apply for grants should visit www.delameredairyfoundation.org.uk to download an application pack. The deadline for the first wave of applications is midnight on 31 July 2021. The first wave of grants will be awarded by the end of 2021.

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The site has been launched with a competition for visitors to win a year’s supply of Delamere Flavoured milk by signing up to the monthly newsletter which is also being promoted across social channels.

The products quickly gained a large social media following with high levels of engagement across its channels which feature Delamere’s cow mascot Mabel and her antics.

Visitors to the site will also find product news, recipes using the milk and postcards from Mabel’s regular travels.

The five 500ml flavours (RRP £1) include Banana, Strawberry, Vanilla and Chocolate and Iced Coffee, and are widely sold across multiple and independent retailers across the UK.

Steve O’Connor, national account manager for Delamere Dairy said: “We know that the range has really enthusiastic and engaged customers, which has been evident across the social activity. They love getting involved and we have sent out thousands of Mabel cows since we launched them.

“It seems only right that the range has a standalone website so consumers can keep up to date with news and join in the fun on another platform.”

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Delamere has recently acquired financial stakes in both Cabrito Goat Meat, an ethical goat meat supplier, and Billy Tannery, which produces handcrafted leather goods from goat hides, to work towards reducing unnecessary wastage in the dairy industry.

Delamere will feature the details of its partnership with Cabrito on all of its goats’ milk cartons from May this year in a move to highlight to consumers the ethical reasons to choose its milk.

Details of the partnership appear on the new 1L packaging sold in Asda, Co-op, Nisa, Ocado and independent health food stores, with an RRP of £1.60-£1.80.

Cabrito was founded in 2012 by British chef James Whetlor who used his contacts in the industry to source goat meat from British dairy farms to supply to a handful of London restaurants. The company now supplies restaurants, butchers and catering suppliers nationwide.

Delamere Dairy’s managing director, Ed Salt, said: “We are working really hard to reduce wastage in the goat farming industry and our relationship with Cabrito and also Billy Tannery, a micro tannery using waster goat hides, now completes the circle from farm to milk to meat to leather.

“We do everything we can, morally and ethically, to the best of our ability and are proud to be featuring this news on our cartons to promote how delicious goats’ meat is as the demand in the UK continues to grow.”

James Whetlor from Cabrito Goat Meat commented: “Despite the clear link between milk and meat, the topic is often uncomfortable, rarely discussed and consumers sometimes forget the relationship between milk, meat and leather. This partnership with Delamere and with our partners, Jack and Rory at Billy Tannery, is an important step in closing the circle and ending the waste in this part of the food system.”

The Delamere business has come a long way since 1985 when founders Liz & Roger Sutton purchased three goats to follow Roger’s dream of owning a livestock business. Fast forward to 2020 and the business, still based in Cheshire, now supplies speciality and alternative dairy products to over 20 countries around the world.

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