Wincanton
Wincanton is a town as well as electoral ward in South Somerset, southwest England. The community exists off the A303 road, a primary route in between London and also South West England, and has some light market. The community as well as selecting ward has a population of 5,272. In the late 1890s the West Surrey Central Dairy Company purchased a regional creamery. In 1908, after developing a dried out milk baby powder, it changed its name to Cow & Gate. The creamery and also milk products manufacturing facility had its own home sidings from the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway station, providing accessibility for milk trains. In order to handle the transportation problems across its promptly broadening creamery, milk bottling as well as front door delivery network, Cow & Gate developed a devoted logistics arm in 1920. Drawn out in 2002 from successor firm Unigate, Wincanton PLC is the UK's 2nd largest logistics firm. The firm still has a milk products base in the town, although its head office function moved to Chippenham, Wiltshire in 2005. In 1999, Unigate sold its remaining dairies to Dairy products Crest, which still has a creamery and milk processing plant in the community, yet has offered the cheese business to Adams Foods Ltd., producer of the Pilgrim's Choice brand name of Cheddar cheese, in 2010 the second best marketing brand name in the UK.
