Dairygold scoops nine awards at international cheese festival

Dairygold Food Ingredients has scooped nine awards at the Nantwich International Cheese Festival in Cheshire, England.

The Cork-based food company was delighted with this haul of awards, having won six top prizes at last year’s show. A prestigious annual event, last year’s show generated an estimated €2m-worth of press coverage in the UK last year.

Dairygold chief executive Jim Woulfe said: “Dairygold’s longstanding tradition of success at Nantwich is a source of great pride in Dairygold. The co-op has a tremendous heritage and tradition in the production of some of the world’s finest cheeses and looks forward to continuing that tradition into the future.”

Dairygold’s American Style Soft Cheese and Extra Mature Cheddar Sliced took gold awards. The co-op’s Mature Cheddar Sliced and Lactose Free Soft Cheese took silver awards.

Dairygold’s Emmental, Soft Cheese with Live Cultures, Mature Cheddar Sliced, and the recently launched Irish retail product Imokilly Regato each took a bronze award at the festival.