Lakeland to benefit from EU milk-quota abolition

Major cross border dairy co-op Lakeland is poised to take advantage of the opportunities arising from the abolition of EU milk quotas.

The group is in the process of increasing its processing capacity and has positioned itself for a planned growth in milk supplies to over one billion litres a year by 2020.

Enhanced innovation, new product developments and intensive business development activity will underpin the increased capacity of the co-op which has about 2,000 milk suppliers and around 670 employees.