Nestlé Tutbury is a large coffee factory in
Derbyshire
Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...
. It is the longest running Nestlé factory in the world, outside of Switzerland.
Nestlé is the world's largest food and drink company. The site is not in Tutbury, but slightly north on the southern edge of Derbyshire.
History
It made
powdered milk
Powdered milk, also called milk powder, dried milk, or dry milk, is a manufactured dairy product made by evaporating milk to dryness. One purpose of drying milk is to preserve it; milk powder has a far longer shelf life than liquid milk and do ...
during World War II.
Nestlé moved its regional office staff from
West Bridgford
West Bridgford is a town and the administrative centre of the Borough of Rushcliffe in the county of Nottinghamshire, England. It lies immediately south of the city of Nottingham, from which the River Trent divides it. Forming part of the Nott ...
to the Tutbury factory in October 1976.
All of Nestlé's UK and Ireland coffee production was moved to the site in 2014, increasing 400 jobs.
The site was featured on an hour-long
BBC Two
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream an ...
documentary about coffee production on Tuesday 17 July 2018.
Coffee production
In the 1970s Nestlé had around 50% of the UK coffee production. Nestlé introduced instant coffee to the UK in 1939. Until the late 1980s, most instant coffee in the UK was made with Robusta coffee, and the spray drying process. In 2000, Nestlé had a 56% share of the UK's £650m coffee production.
Nestlé España have Nestlé's largest European coffee factory in
Girona
Girona (officially and in Catalan language, Catalan , Spanish: ''Gerona'' ) is a city in northern Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter River, Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers. The city had an official population of 103,369 in ...
(Gerona) in the east of Spain, near the French border.
Visits
The Prime Minister visited the factory on Thursday 24 November 2011, when the site was given £110m of investment.
Structure
The site has around 1000 employees.
Site production
It makes around 175,000 jars of coffee a day.
Production
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See also
* List of countries by coffee production
The following list of countries by coffee production catalogues sovereign states that have conducive climate and infrastructure to foster the production of coffee beans. Many of these countries maintain substantial supply-chain relations with th ...
References
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External links
Nestlé Tutbury
1901 establishments in England
Buildings and structures in Derbyshire
Coffee production
Economy of Derbyshire
Food manufacturers of England
Industrial buildings completed in 1959
Manufacturing plants in England
Tutbury
Tutbury is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Staffordshire, England. It is north of Burton upon Trent and south of the Peak District. The village has a population of about 3,076 residents. It adjoins Hatton, Derbyshire, H ...
South Derbyshire District