Yeo Valley Organic has become the best-known organic brand in Britain but Yeo Valley started life in 1974 producing yogurt for retailers’ own brands and this remains a core part of the business. These days, a “value” (cheap and perhaps not so cheerful) yogurt on a retailer’s shelves is probably made on the continent but the increasingly innovative ranges of value-added yogurts and mousses are likely to originate from Yeo Valley’s Lag Farm dairy.

A brand is also produced there for independent retailers and food service customers - Ubley yogurt is named after a neighbouring village (curiously Nempnett Thrubwell, the next village along the Yeo Valley, came rather distant second in the name selection process!).

At Yeo Valley’s Newton Abbot dairy, the Rocombe brand of premium organic ice cream has developed from its humble Devon farm beginnings, with a new look to its packaging introduced in 2005. Finally, Yeo Valley has a second business at its Mendip Centre Head Office – The Lakewood Conference Centre operates as an independent operation but shares the superb views across the Yeo Valley at Blagdon.