Diary firm plans new facility at newly-purchased East Kilbride site

The Glasgow firm has acquired the former Muller dairy facility where it intends to create up to 100 new jobs in the next two years.

The family business, which was founded in 1995, now operates eight distribution depots in Scotland and north of England and a dairy in Glasgow.  The business opened its latest depot in Galashiels in May 2019.  The company currently employs 400 members of staff with couple’s five children holding senior positions within the business.

The 6.5-acre site will allow the business to accelerate its growth aspirations in the doorstep delivery sector. The new facility is expected to open in Spring 2020.

Mick McQueen, chairman of McQueens Dairies, said:  “We’re an ambitious business that delivers milk direct to customers’ doors and want to build on the success we’ve achieved so far. In the last year we grew turnover by 30% and we expect that increase to be repeated this year so the new dairy in East Kilbride, which is larger than our current dairy, gives us a real platform to maintain that momentum. We’re also very excited about creating many new jobs as a result.

“Our success to date has been by focussing on the demand for doorstep delivery both here in Scotland and in the north of England. We know that many people purchase milk from supermarkets but our business is about delivering milk direct to the consumer be that doorsteps or businesses. There is a real growth in the demand for doorstep delivery and we are perfectly placed to respond.

“Our current dairy and distribution centre in the M8 Food Park in the north of Glasgow has reached capacity and doesn’t afford us any more scope to expand so the move to a purpose built dairy, just twelve miles away and still within easy reach of our tens of thousands of customers, makes perfect sense.”