At the age of 20, our founder Harry Workman purchased a 30 gallon per day milk round, a Morris 8 van, milk churns and bottles and on May 1st 1938 he started his door-to-door delivery using a bucket and ladle to deliver the milk.

 

Harry built the business on core values of Quality, Service and Cleanliness and it was these values that established the reputation of the business. The business grew quickly and by 1943 the business relocated to Cotteswold Road in Tewkesbury, from which the dairy took its name 'Cotteswold Dairy'. The dairy’s good reputation spread and in 1961 it first began delivery in Cheltenham. It was in 1969 that the business relocated to its present site at Northway Lane in Tewkesbury.  Harry’s son Roger Workman was involved in dairy life from when he was small until he officially joined the business in 1962 and Roger took over the reins of the business in 1982.  As many other independent dairies closed, Cotteswold Dairy acquired them and the business increased substantially.

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In 1991, Roger Workman's son George Workman started working for the business learning everything there is to know about working in the dairy, from the factory floor to transportation, to business operations whilst adhering to the core values set out by Harry and in 2010 George was appointed to Managing Director. 

 

Today Cotteswold Dairy operates four different depots across the UK and services many different types of customers including Wholesale customers, Semi Retail customers and Independent Milkmen as well as Doorstep Delivery customers by a traditional, electric milk float.