Lakeland Dairies

🐄 🌙 🌌 The Northern Lights and Dairy Nights 🐄 🌙 🌌 This great photo was snapped by Kerri Lawless from Co Louth last week as one of our hauliers was out and about busy collecting milk under the Northern Lights. The connection between the milk haulier and the farmer is hugely important. As well as collecting their high-quality milk, the haulier can often be a source of news and information for farmers who might not see many others in their yard. For more on our Farmers and Agri Division, visit here: https://lnkd.in/eqvga2qZ #NorthernLights #LakelandDairies #ThePeopleOfLakelandDairies #AuroraBorealis #DairyNutrition

📣 👨🎓 👩🎓 📣 Calling all Graduates! 📣 👨🎓 👩🎓 📣 We are excited to share that applications for the 2025 Lakeland Dairies' Graduate Programme are now open! What Our Graduate Programme Offers: 👀 ✅ A fantastic opportunity to build your career and shape your future, while contributing to the growth of one of Ireland’s most successful and forward-looking dairy co-operatives. ✅ The programme has an excellent track record of successfully nurturing talent, injecting new perspectives and innovative thinking into our organisation. ✅ When you become a member of the Lakeland Dairies team you are joining an organisation of highly committed, performance focussed, ambitious, innovative, sustainable focussed people who take pride in the contribution they are making. 🔍 We’re looking for graduates in: 🧪 Food Science 🥛    Nutrition 👩🌾 Agriculture 🔧 Engineering 🤝 Business 💱 Finance 🖥️   IT What we offer: ✅   A two-year rotational Graduate Programme is structured with planned job rotations enabling you to develop a breath of vital skills and experience to accelerate your development and growth. ✅  One-to-One mentoring from experienced professionals in the business. ✅  An accredited professional diploma. ✅ Competitive salary package with excellent benefits. ✅ Exposure to senior leadership. ✅ Structured connection and team building events. 👉 So, if you want to be part of something special and make a difference to help shape the future of the dairy industry, we’d love to hear from you! 🖱️ For more information or to apply, visit: https://lnkd.in/eDBWts_b #ThePeopleOfLakelandDairies #LakelandDairies #GraduateOppportunities #Graduates #GraduateProgramme #TogetherForABetterFuture

🏆 Three Awards for Lakeland Dairies at Blas na hÉireann 🏆 We are delighted to announce that Lakeland Dairies has been recognised with three prestigious awards at the 2024 Blas na hÉireann Irish Food Awards, often referred to as the "Irish Food Oscars". ✨ These awards underline our Co-op's long-standing commitment to producing world-class, safe, and sustainable dairy products enjoyed by households across Ireland and beyond. Lakeland Dairies, the largest cross-border dairy co-operative on the island with over 2bn litres of milk collected from 3,200 farm families, emerged as one of the biggest winners on the day. ✨ Our Wins: 🥉 Bronze in the Buttermilk category for our Champion Buttermilk brand. 🥈 Silver in the Double Cream category for our Ballyrashane Double Cream. 🥉 Bronze in the Flavoured Milk category for our VIVA Chocolate Milk (1L). Commenting on the achievement, Tommy O Donaghue said: “With a tradition nearly 130 years in the making, Lakeland Dairies continues to show that it is a customer and consumer-focused co-op dedicated to creating the highest-quality products every day. We are truly honoured to have won three awards at this year's Blas na hÉireann, which is a testament to the hard work and dedication of everyone in Lakeland Dairies, from our farmers to our staff. We look forward to continuing to serve our discerning consumers who recognise quality when they see it.” Congratulations to everyone involved in this fantastic achievement! 🌟 #LakelandDairies #ThePeopleOfLakelandDairies #FromLocalToGlobal #AddedValue #BlasnahÉireann #IrishFoodAwards #DairyExcellence

Continued #innovation and #AddedValue are central to the Lakeland Dairies' strategic direction - Foundations for a Better Future. Here the Lakeland Dairies Food Ingredients team has put innovation and added value with a focus on delivering for their loyal customers at the centre of the new Performance Butter Range.

Well done to the Lakeland Dairies' Consumer Foods / Foodservice team for another couple of gongs for the awards cabinet! #ThePeopleOfLakelandDairies #LocalToGlobal #DairyNutrition #LakelandDairies #BlasNahEireann #BlasAwards

📌 The People of Lakeland Dairies 🎵 It's a safety dance...🎵 Meet Tom Stephenson - Group Health and Safety Manager at #LakelandDairies about his decade with the co-op, keeping people safe and being a snappy happy chappy. This month marks a decade since I joined the company, yet it feels like only yesterday that my journey in health and safety began. Our Health and Safety team is a dedicated group. We’re a close-knit team bound by a shared commitment to protecting our people. ⚠️ One of the challenges in this field is that success is often invisible. How do you measure accidents that never happened? Yet, that’s the true essence of our work—being proactive, anticipating risks, and putting measures in place to prevent incidents before they occur. Collaboration is essential in this process, and we hold regular meetings with our business partners to share insights, discuss what’s working, and learn from what isn’t. 🤝 What I find most rewarding about my role is knowing that our efforts can influence someone to take that extra moment to ensure their own safety. 📸 Outside of work, I find joy in photography, a passion I share with my wife. We love exploring the beauty of nature and capturing its many wonders through the lens. It’s a creative outlet that allows us to appreciate the world around us. Health and safety is undoubtedly challenging, but it’s also deeply rewarding. I’m proud to be part of a team that is not just committed to compliance but genuinely cares about making Lakeland Dairies a safer place for everyone. #ThePeopleOfLakelandDairies #LakelandDairies #FromLocalToGlobal #HealthAndSafety #HandS #DairyNutrition

🐄 🐮 🥛 Breaking moos! Lakeland Dairies leads on World School Milk Day 2024🐄 🐮 🥛 #LakelandDairies has raised a glass of the white stuff to mark World School Milk Day 2024! Lakeland Dairies joined students at schools across our catchment area in toasting the greatness of milk which is one of the healthiest and nutritious foods for anyone’s diet. As the old adage goes, ‘them bones, them bones need calcium’ so we are delighted to be taking a leadership role on this hugely important day – World School Milk Day 2024. Milk is a nutrient rich food and is a high source of calcium which helps create strong, healthy bones for children and adults of all ages. Scientific research reveals that approximately 90% of the human skeleton is formed by age 18, so ensuring children receive the recommended daily intake of calcium is vital to later overall adult health and bone strength. #ThePeopleOfLakelandDairies #WorldSchoolMilkDay #Dairy #DairyNutrition #DairyFarming

🥇 ♻🥇 ♻ Lakeland Dairies – The Gold Standard! ♻ 🥇♻🥇 Lakeland Dairies is proud and thrilled to announce that we have been awarded the Origin Green standard for our continued commitment to achieving sustainability targets. Origin Green's Gold Standard is the highest recognition a company can receive for committing to and delivery of sustainable and environmentally friendly practices. The prestigious honour comes less than one year since we launched our ESG strategy – Pathway to a Better Future. The strategy outlines a series of ambitious targets and actions that Lakeland Dairies is currently undertaking to ensure that we are futureproofing our co-operative for this and subsequent generations. The Gold Standard recognises the hard work, skill and dedication to of our farm families, our people, our customers and our communities. Some of the key initiatives we are delivering include: ✔ A 30% reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 2030. ✔ A 30% reduction in carbon footprint of milk production by 2030. ✔ 100% of plastic packaging will be reusable, recyclable and compostable by 2030. ✔ A 15% reduction in water usage by 2025. ✔ A clear commitment to Diversity and Inclusion. ✔ Zero waste to landfill by 2026. #Sustainability #LakelandDairies #OriginGreen #ThePeopleOfLakelandDairies #ESG #DairyNutrition #Nutrition Bord Bia - The Irish Food Board Catherine Quinn

⭐️ Winner Winner ⭐️ What a fantastic evening at the Irish Quality Food and Drink Awards on Tuesday. We are honoured that our butter, the Dunnes Stores My Family Favourites Irish Creamery Butter scooped up the silver award. This coveted award is a testiment to the hard work and dedication of Lakeland Dairies network of 3,200 family farms and employees. Check out our retail product portfolio here: https://lnkd.in/e6bvyriA #IrishButter #GrassFed #PeopleOfLakelandDairies #IQFDA

We are delighted to announce that our VIVA Flavoured Milk range has been ranked #5 Flavoured Milk Brand in the Checkout Magazine Top 100 Brands in 2024 according to Nielsen statistics. Learn more about VIVA here: https://lnkd.in/eQFn-DsU #VIVA #FlavouredMilk #LakelandDairies #Checkout #AddedValue #ThePeopleOfLakelandDairies #ConsumerTrends