Wincanton
Wincanton is a village and electoral ward in South Somerset, southwest England. The town exists off the A303 road, a main path between London and also South West England, as well as 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 purchased a regional creamery. In 1908, after creating a dried out milk talcum powder, it transformed its name to Cow & Gate. The creamery and dairy items manufacturing facility had its own home sidings from the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway station, giving gain access to for milk trains. In order to deal with the transport problems across its quickly expanding creamery, milk bottling as well as front door distribution network, Cow & Gate formed 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 business still has a dairy products base in the community, although its head office function relocated to Chippenham, Wiltshire in 2005. In 1999, Unigate offered its staying dairies products to Dairy products Crest, which still has a creamery and also milk handling plant in the community, however has marketed the cheese organisation to Adams Foods Ltd., producer of the Pilgrim's Choice brand name of Cheddar cheese, in 2010 the second-rate marketing brand in the UK.
