Cream maker gears up for busy summer
MAKING sure Westcountry visitors can enjoy the region’s famous cream teas is a serious business – so much so, that one Cornish company is putting on extra shifts, creating 35 vacancies, to ensure the flow of high quality local milk and cream will reach all parts of the peninsula in what is predicted to be a recordbreaking summer.
Trewithen Dairy, which already employs 250 full-time staff, decided on the increase to help cope with predicted demand as tourism providers across the region report an unprecedented upturn in visitor bookings being made now that Covid-restrictions are easing.
The family-run dairy’s joint managing director, Francis Clarke, told the WMN: “We made the decision while preparing for this busy summer. During the lockdowns we saw a significant reduction in sales through the service sector – pubs, restaurants and the like – but we look forward to that coming back to life.
“Everything indicates that Cornwall and the South West is going to be very busy. But despite these challenges we have been fortunate to grow our total sales in the past 12 months with both new and existing customers. So we are preparing for that and making sure we do a great job for all our customers in what will be a very important recovery year for our region’s businesses,” said Francis.
He said record-breaking summer in visitor numbers would be good news for regional produce sales. “People are wanting to buy that taste of Cornwall,” he added.