Welcome to Yeo Valley

Yeo Valley is a family-owned farming and dairy processing business. From the dairy farm in Blagdon near Bristol, its founders, Roger and Mary Mead, started to make yogurt in 1974. The first organic yogurt was produced twenty years later and today Yeo Valley Organic has become the best-known organic brand in Britain.

But the Yeo Valley story is much more than the organic brand. Holt Farms Limited, is named after the original 150 acre farm bought in 1961 and now manages over 1200 acres; it is still run by Mary Mead. The first Yeo Valley Blagdon dairy, now much expanded, produces both organic and non-organic yogurts alongside the Cannington dairy which specialises in the Yeo Valley’s ‘big-pot’ yogurts. The Newton Abbot dairy in Devon produces ice cream, sorbets, frozen yogurt and chilled dairy desserts whilst the Supply Chain operations at Isleport and Axbridge manage the logistical challenge of servicing the needs of the dairies and Yeo Valley’s many customers.

Each operation has impressive strengths and integrity which have contributed to considerable growth over the years; the result is a much larger business but one that remains true to its independent ideals.