Dairygold must return €750,000 grant after Welsh plant closure

DAIRYGOLD has had to pay back a €750,000 grant to the Welsh Assembly government, stemming from last year’s closure of its Dairygold Food Products cheese company packing plant in Wales.

Welsh Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones has announced that, following the initiation of legal action, £600,000 had been recovered of a £663,528 processing and marketing grant awarded to Dairygold in June 2002 to expand packing lines at the factory in Felinfach, Ceredigion.

The work was completed in 2004, but the cheese-packing facility closed in April last year with the loss of 115 jobs.