Associated Co-operative Creameries

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Associated Co-operative Creameries (ACC), formerly CWS Milk Group, was a subsidiary and operating division of the Co-operative Group.

Associated Co-operative Creameries Limited is an industrial and provident society that was first registered in 1961, [1] and became a subsidiary of the North Eastern Co-operative Society (NECS), a large regional consumer co-operative based in Gateshead. It became one of the largest milk processors and distributors in north-east England. After NECS merged with the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS, now the Co-operative Group) in 1992, Associated Co-operative Creameries absorbed CWS Milk Group, a milk processor and distributor based in Wales and north west England. [2] The abbreviated trading name ACC was adopted in 2001 when the milk and distribution operations were split.

By 2004, Associated Co-operative Creameries Limited, trading as ACC Milk, was the UK's fourth largest dairy business, when it was sold to yet another co-operative, Dairy Farmers of Britain of Nantwich, Cheshire, forming Britain's largest milk co-operative, and the UK's third largest milk processor. [3] [4] ACC moved its registered address to Nantwich at that time. [1]

ACC Distribution was the logistics division of The Co-operative Group and supplied not only stores belonging to The Co-operative Group itself but other co-operative societies. ACC Distribution is still owned by the Co-operative Group and is today known as Co-operative Retail Logistics.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Mutuals Public Register, Associated Co-operative Creameries Limited, number 15896R". FSA . Retrieved 2008-07-03.
  2. ↑ "Mutuals Public Register, North Eastern Co-operative Society Limited, number 19337R". FSA . Retrieved 2008-07-03.
  3. ↑ "PRESS RELEASE. £75 m acquisition of Associated Co-operative Creameries ("ACC") from The Co-operative Group. Dairy Farmers of Britain ("DFB") to become UK's largest milk cooperative" (PDF). Dairy Farmers of Britain . Retrieved 2008-07-03.
  4. ↑ "Completed acquisition by Dairy Farmers of Britain Limited of Associated Co-operative Creameries Limited No. ME/1308/04". Office of Fair Trading. 2004-12-03. Archived from the original on 2009-01-09. Retrieved 2008-07-03.
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