Named after a completely fictional English village, which Dairy Crest soft blue cheese was launched amid a blaze of publicity in 1982 only to cease production ten years later, largely because it was terrible?
Lymeswold cheese was branded Westminster Blue, because some non-English speakers had difficulty pronouncing the name Lymeswold. In 1979 the Milk Marketing Board began discussions with the large dairy firm Unigate that led in 1981 to the restructuring of its processing and marketing activities under the Dairy Crest brand to use surplus milk production for making other dairy products. The initiatives that followed included the launch in 1982 of Lymeswold cheese. The name was derived from public competition to name the new cheese. It was at first produced at Cannington creamery in Somerset. The cheese's creation was hailed by Peter Walker, then Agriculture
Dairy Crest In 1991, the company established a joint venture with French dairy company Yoplait called "Yoplait Dairy Crest" (often abbreviated to YDC) which is 51% owned by Yoplait and 49% by Dairy Crest and which distributes Yoplait brand products in the United Kingdom. In 1995, it bought the "Cathedral City" brand of cheese from Mendip Foods Ltd. The business was privatised in August 1996, and Dairy Crest was listed on the London Stock Exchange. In July 2000, it acquired the dairy and cheese products division of Unigate in London and in November 2002, it acquired the St Ivel spreads company which