![]() ![]() ADL’s willingness to make a variety of cheeses has brought them success and a recent $20 million expansion has helped increase their output. “A lot of the big players want to run one type of cheese through one plant,” MacPhail explained. ![]() But did you know that the company also produces cheeses for Cows, Tre Stelle, Walmart, Loblaws, and other large brands? The partnerships with these brands is a source of pride for ADL. Islanders are most likely familiar with ADL’s award-winning line of cheddar and mozzarella, as well as the brand Dairy Isle, which is the same cheese but with a brand name chosen to appeal to non-Islanders. I think we are up over 25 different types of cheese that come out of this plant now.” “We also make asiago, cheddar, mozzarella. We make about 60 percent of feta and havarti cheese in Canada,” MacPhail said. “We are now the largest speciality cheese processor in Canada. But it’s their cheese plant in Summerside that is leading the way. From making butter in their O’Leary plant to the evaporated and condensed milk produced in downtown Charlottetown along with traditional milk processing plants in St Eleanor’s and Charlottetown, ADL is a going concern. With five processing plants across PEI, the dairy cooperative’s reach is wide, and ADL employs over 300 people, running their production facilities 24/7. “Every single dairy farmer on PEI is a member of ADL,” Jamie MacPhail, marketing manager of ADL, said, “All are family-owned and they are all members of ADL.” And that, quite simply, is due to Atlantic Canada’s largest independent dairy cooperative, Amalgamated Dairy Limited (ADL). Retrieved December 9, 2017.Walk by the dairy section of any Prince Edward Island grocery store and you will easily find a wide range of local products on the shelves.
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