Further to its extraordinary growth and continuing success, Millbrook Dairy Company has announced two significant senior appointments to its team in order to further build on its fast-growing infrastructure, technical talent, and service offer for the future.
The Devon-based cheese and dairy company that sells into Export, Wholesale and Grocery, is now in its sixth year of trading and is investing heavily back into the business to grow its capabilities and accelerate further market penetration.
Piotr Kurzawa has joined the business taking up the role of Quality Systems & Operations Officer. Piotr’s role will be to support Teresa Pollard, Operations Director at Millbrook Dairy,
overseeing the Quality Systems & Operations, ensuring BRCGS processes and systems are adhered to and working directly with suppliers and customers.
Piotr has a wealth of knowledge and a great background within Quality Systems and Operations having worked in various senior roles within this area at Wipak, where he previously worked for ten years. Piotr brings over 14 years of solid, firsthand experience within Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment (QHSE) across food production and packaging manufacturing industries.
Piotr Piegza has joined the business in the role of Head Cheese Grader, bringing to the role almost two decades of dairy industry experience and expertise. Before joining Millbrook Dairy, Piotr worked in various positions within DairyGold Food Ingredients, beginning as a Production Operative back in 2005 and more recently, before joining Millbrook Dairy, as Samples and Grading Coordinator.
Piotr’s abundance of knowledge and experience will further deepen Millbrook Dairy’s collective product knowledge reinforcing its capability and resilience as a business.
Kevin Beer, co-founder of Millbrook Dairy Company, said:
“We’re delighted to welcome Piotr and Piotr to the Millbrook Dairy team. As our business continues to grow from strength to strength, we’re focused on building the right talent and capabilities to support our future ambitions.
“Our foundations are strong, and we’re now scaling in a structured, strategic way – ensuring we not only meet but consistently exceed the expectations of our customers.”
About Millbrook Dairy Company:
Millbrook Dairy Company was founded in 2019 by respected dairy industry experts, David Evans and Kevin Beer. Since then, it hasn’t looked back!
The company supplies a diverse range of the highest quality British, Irish and Scottish cheese and butter into a growing wholesale and grocery home market and international customer base in USA, China, Canada, Australia and South America.
The business achieved immense success and growth since its first year of trading when it delivered an incredible turnover of £15million, outperforming its initial expectations by more than 500%. The growth didn’t stop there. In its third year of trading (2023) it achieved a turnover of over £42million and the business continues to go from strength to strength.
In 2020, Millbrook Dairy launched its own 1057 brand, an extra mature Scottish cheddar for Export and Wholesale alongside its own-label cheddars.
In 2021, Millbrook Dairy won a 1st for its own-label Creamery Mature Cheddar and a 3rd for its own-label Creamery Vintage Cheddar at the Virtual Cheese Awards. Its 1057 Scottish cheddar won its first star at the Great Taste Awards and was awarded a bronze in the Best Scottish Cheese category at the International Cheese Awards.
In 2022, Millbrook Dairy won the Creamery Vintage Cheddar class with its 1057 Scottish cheddar at the Virtual Cheese Awards.
In 2023, Millbrook Dairy partnered with the award-winning Perthshire’ boutique Persie Distillery to create its very own limited edition, 1057 Scottish Gin.
In 2024, Millbrook Dairy Company was honoured with the UK’s highest business accolade, The King’s Awards for Enterprise: International Trade 2024.
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