THE Princess Royal will visit Melksham’s award-winning dairy exporter, Coombe Castle International, to officially open the company’s new premises next month.
Princess Anne will visit the company’s headquarters on Monday 7th April at Western Way and present Coombe Castle with its third Queen’s Award for international trade. The company previously won the Award in 2001 and 2007.
Founded in 1980 in Corsham, the company employs 30 people. It exports its own cream and also butter and cheese products from a range of farms, creameries and dairies to more than 40 countries including the US, Russia, South Korea and Japan.
Well-known brands exported by the company include cheeses such as Applewood Smoked Cheddar, Stinking Bishop and Colliers Welsh Cheddar; a range of clotted and double creams plus butter from Devon, Wales and goats’ butter.
