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Article: Creamery signs [pounds]1m export deal
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- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- May 20, 2009
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A NORTH Yorkshire creamery is hoping to become a big cheese in
the US after signing a [pounds]1m a year deal.
The Wensleydale Creamery, in Hawes, has signed an exclusive
export deal with Anco Fine Cheese.
Anco, based in New Jersey, is the largest importer of specialist
cheese to the US. Under the deal, worth [pounds]1m a year to the
creamery, it will be the sole distributor of Real Yorkshire
Wensleydale cheese in the US.
It comes after two years in which the creamery, which employs 198
people, has seen sales to the US and Canada increase by nearly 25
per cent.
As part of a major sales offensive in the country, it will also
aim to attract the country's major commercial cheese buyers at an ...