Wincanton
Wincanton is a town and electoral ward in South Somerset, southwest England. The town exists off the A303 road, a primary path in between London as well as South West England, and also has some light industry. The community as well as electoral ward has a population of 5,272. In the late 1890s the West Surrey Central Dairy Company acquired a regional creamery. In 1908, after creating a dried milk baby powder, it altered its name to Cow & Gate. The creamery as well as milk items factory had its very own home sidings from the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway station, offering accessibility for milk trains. In order to cope with the transportation troubles across its swiftly increasing creamery, milk bottling and also doorstep distribution network, Cow & Gate formed a devoted logistics arm in 1920. Drawn out in 2002 from follower firm Unigate, Wincanton PLC is the UK's 2nd biggest logistics business. The firm still has a dairy products base in the town, although its head office function relocated to Chippenham, Wiltshire in 2005. In 1999, Unigate marketed its staying milks to Milk Crest, which still has a creamery as well as milk processing plant in the town, yet has sold celebrity service to Adams Foods Ltd., producer of the Pilgrim's Choice brand of Cheddar cheese, in 2010 the second-rate marketing brand in the UK.