About Us
Delamere Dairy is located in Knutsford, Cheshire and takes its name from the beautiful Delamere Forest where, in 1985, the company was founded by Liz and Roger Sutton.
Our Story
Liz & Roger Sutton founded Delamere Dairy with their first purchase of just three goats in Cheshire’s beautiful Delamere Forest. They began by selling the fresh goats’ milk and soft cheese they made in their kitchen to local health food stores.
Such was the interest in their products that only a couple of years later, they were supplying milk to major UK retailers. As time went on, their products were seen on more and more supermarket shelves.
By now, Delamere Dairy had outgrown its home in the forest and moved to Yew Tree Farm in Knutsford. New products were added to the portfolio including semi-skimmed milk, with goats’ butter being made from the cream skimmed from the milk.
Demand for new and innovative goats’ dairy products continued to grow alongside the awareness of its benefits. So plain and flavoured goats’ yogurts soon followed on from goats’ milk, cheese and butter.
Uniquely in the UK, Delamere Dairy developed a long-life goats’ milk, which dramatically improved the availability of goats’ milk across the country. It also enabled Delamere Dairy to be the first goats’ milk brand to be sold in Italy, the start of its thriving export business.
As sales continued to grow, more goat farmers were enlisted to help produce goats’ milk for Delamere Dairy and the Delamere Dairy Farm Assurance and Welfare Scheme was developed to ensure consistent standards.
Delamere Dairy had sold goats’ milk to breeders to rear puppies for years and in 2004 the TopLife Formula brand of goats’ milk treats for dogs was born. Visit www.toplifeformula.com to find out more!
Delamere Dairy acquired the Pure Milk brand of sterilised cows’ milk, now part of the Delamere Dairy brand portfolio.
Further to the launch of TopLife Formula for dogs in 2004, kitten, puppy and cat varieties joined the range. Visit www.toplifeformula.com to find out more
A wider variety of cheeses & yogurts were launched including the award winning Greek goats’ cheese, goats’ cheese with herbs and goats’ cheese with honey.
Delamere Dairy is awarded Farm Business of the Year at the Farm Business Food & Farming Industry Awards.
Delamere Dairy opened its Far East office in Hong Kong to explore market opportunities there.
Delamere Dairy opened its European office in Belgium to serve the Benelux countries.
Delamere Dairy is listed in the Sunday Times SME Export Track 100, as the UK’s fastest growing food & drink exporter.
Delamere Dairy is awarded the UK’s most prestigious business award – The Queen’s Award for Enterprise for our International Trade achievements. We were also invited to HM The Queen’s Reception at Buckingham Palace where we were officially presented with the award and the Lord-Lieutenant of the County, The Queen’s local representative, also visited us to present the Grant of Appointment and presentational crystal bowl.
Delamere Dairy continues to supply an extensive range of specialist goat and cows’ milk based products to retail, wholesale and independent customers across the UK, Europe and beyond. With an active new product development programme, there’s always something new and exciting on the horizon
Animal Welfare
We operate a strict, independently monitored, Farm Assurance and Welfare Code to guarantee the best milk from healthy, happy animals.
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Awards
We’re really proud of our products and its always nice to know others like them as much as we do. We’re chuffed to have won lots of great awards...
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Recycling
We take a lot of care preparing our products, and just as much care making sure they get to you in perfect condition. But when we pack them we're also very aware of our responsibility to the environment and we 'do our bit' wherever we can.
Information on how to recycle each of our products can be found on their respective pages.
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What our customers think
My son developed an allergy to Cows' milk. We discovered the benefits of Goats' milk very quickly and he has been drinking it, along with his sister Lily, every day since. Thank you, Zach and Lily Barrance
A day in the life of a Delamere Farmer
Want to know what it's really like looking after the Delamere goats?
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Partnerships
At Delamere Dairy we support (and take part in) activities which are fun and healthy while at the same time remembering the responsibility we have for their impact on the people and environment around us. Read on to find out who we've joined forces with to help promote our 'fun, healthy and responsible' ethos...
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