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Article: Supplier spotlight: shepherds purse cheeses.(Market edge: MILK--CHEESE--BUTTER--EGGS)(Brief Article)
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- Grocer
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- April 16, 2005
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Reports that growing numbers of people were suffering from intolerance of cows' milk prompted farmer's wife Judy Bell to buy a herd of 47 British Friesland sheep and set up Shepherds Purse Cheeses.
Nineteen years later, the North Yorkshire company produces two tonnes of cheese a week and is set to break the 1m [pounds sterling] annual turnover barrier.
The cheesemaker supplies all the major retailers with one or more of its sheep, cow and buffalo milk cheeses.
Chief executive Bell began in 1987 by teaching herself how to milk her flock of ewes and freezing the output. The next winter she made unpasteurised cheese and "touted it round nice ...