The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has cleared the £80m sale of Dairy Crest's dairy operations to Muller UK, and will complete on 26 December this year.
The deal includes Dairy Crest’s liquid milk processing, trading and distribution business, as well as its packaged cream, flavoured milk and bulk commodity ingredients business.
Plants at Severnside, Gloucester; Chadwell Heath, Essex; at Foston in Derbyshire and Hanworth, Middlesex, are part of the purchase, along with about 70 depots.
When the deal was first considered by the CMA it raised concerns about competition in fresh liquid milk supply in the catchment area of DC’s Severnside dairy, especially in the South West and Wales.