Unilever Gloucester is a large food manufacturing site in the north-east of Gloucester, England, that produces all of the makes of Unilever ice cream for the UK.
Unilever Gloucester
Unilever Ice Cream, Gloucester Factory
Looking north-west from the footbridge over the A417 (for the Premier Inn Gloucester) in November 2008
The site was built by Unilever from 1959. The site was officially announced on Tuesday 16 April 1962.[2]
Unilever is the world's largest manufacturer of ice cream, and also has large manufacturing sites in Hellendoorn in the Netherlands, Saint-Dizier in France and Caivano in Italy. Nestle and Unilever have about a third of the global production each.[3]
The site was built to supply 25 million people in the west and north of England, and Wales. In the 1960s the site had over 1,000 employees, and was the world's largest ice cream factory.[4] When opening, the site could produce 90,000 gallons of ice cream a day and 2 million lollies a day.
Over five years in the late 1980s, £60m was invested on the site.[5]
Visits
In March 1995, the site was visited by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh; the Queen had visited the nearby GCHQ site (in the west of Cheltenham) at 10.30am, and she planted a commemorative tree at the Unilever factory. [6]
Structure
In the 1960s there was a two story office and production buildings, and a cone and wafer factory called Embisco. The site was opened as the Cotswold Factory.[7]
The site runs 24 hours a day, all week. The site is situated on the A417, to the west of the large A40 roundabout. It is around a mile west of junction 11a of the M5, and situated to the east of the main Cross Country Route railway.
The site employs over 500 people.
Production
The site makes around 5m Cornetto products and about 10m Magnum products a week. It makes around 1.5 billion ice cream products a year.
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