Wiseman on the attack
By Farmers Weekly staff
ROBERT Wiseman Dairies believes the Competition Commission inquiry into fresh milk supply to the middle market in Scotland is a direct result of other dairy firms trying to undermine its expansion plans further south.
Alan Wiseman, chairman, said: “We are confident that the Competition Commission will find that Wiseman has not behaved in an anti-competitive way, but merely responded commercially to competitor activity which, we believe, represents an attempt to deter us from our expansion in England.”
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North of the border, Wiseman, which controls about 70% of the Scottish milk market, has been locked in a price battle with Express Dairies.
But he insisted that the diversionary tactics would not work. Wiseman opened its Manchester dairy in 1995, now processing 320m litres of milk a year.
It intends to build a 400m-litre-a-year plant in Droitwich, near Birmingham, which should be operational by next spring.
- Scots milk probe in the news, FWi, 04 February, 2000
- Competition probe into Wiseman, FWi, 28 January, 2000