Dale Farm secure Number 1 position as cheddar supplier to Lidl

Lidl has signed a deal with Northern Ireland based co-op subsidiary Dale Farm to supply cheddar cheese to 8,000 Lidl stores in 22 countries, including the UK, Europe and USA.

In turn Lidl is now Dale Farm’s biggest cheddar cheese customer. The co-op is the UK’s largest indigenous co-op with 1300 members.

There will likely be one or more losers but we haven’t found out yet who they are and whether the cheese was made from UK milk.