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Fonterra cleans up at the Australian Dairy Product Awards

Fonterra has taken home 27 awards at the 2013 Dairy Industry Association of Australia (DIAA) Australian Dairy Product Awards.

Fonterra’s Victorian manufacturing site, Cobden where its famous Western Star butter is created, won 12 awards spanning their butter and milk products range and received gold for every category that the brand was entered into.

The Cobden site also received the Arthur E Hacquoil Gold Medallion and E T Heard Memorial Gold Medallion for its bulk dairy products, Fonterra’s Bulk Salted and Unsalted Butter respectively.

Fonterra’s Tasmanian sites, received 10 awards in total for their cheese and milk powder products. The Wynyard site’s Colby Semi Hard Cheese received the Merk Award for the highest scoring semi hard cheese and the Spreyton site claimed gold for its Skim Milk Powder.

Wagga Wagga, Fonterra’s NSW site won five medals, with its Riverina Fresh Chocolate Milk taking home gold.

Chris Diaz, Fonterra’s Operations Manager said the awards were an excellent achievement for the brand and continue to confirm the quality of the company’s dairy products.

“We manufacture great tasting, Australian-made products at our 10 sites across Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales using milk from our local suppliers in the region. We’re thankful to our dairy farmer suppliers for continually supplying us with the high-quality milk that is an essential ingredient behind these award winning products,” he said.

“Being recognised as the producer of top quality dairy products is a fantastic acknowledgement for our employees, the regions where these products are made and to our farmer suppliers.”

 

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