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Arla Foods has scooped top awards in five different butter classes at the Cheese and Dairy Show at the Great Yorkshire Show in Harrogate.
The Cheese and Dairy show recognises the best products in class. Winners of each class are then graded against each other and a supreme champion dairy product is honoured.
Arla's Yorkshire Butter won best salted pack butter, and Arla's unsalted packet butter, and salted and unsalted bulk butter also won their classes. The unsalted packet butter, which is sold under retailer brand, went on to win the overall best butter award.
Arla's unsalted butter continued to gain judges appraisal and won Best Yorkshire Product and was then awarded Reserve Supreme Dairy Champion when it was graded against the top products in the different dairy categories including yogurt, cheese and milk.
Winning awards for butter is not unusual at the creamery as for the past three years Settle has been a regular contender in the awards at the Yorkshire Show.
Ken Jensen, Settle's process and butter manager, cites the creamery's manufacturing expertise as the main reason for their success. "We have been producing butter for more than 10 years and use our experience to treat the cream differently, which makes a big difference to how the butter tastes.
"Another factor is that we ensure that our butter remains consistently the same in taste, texture and appearance no matter what time of the year."
Arla Foods Settle creamery acts as a balancing plant for Arla Foods and processes UHT milk, Yorkshire Butter and powdered milk for export.
140 people are employed at the creamery, which produces over 12,000 tonnes of butter a year.
July 2006
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