KEEPING
THE PACE
1980's
1980
A decision to close the Scotsburn Pig Nursery had been made.
1981
Scotsburn built a new distribution warehouse in the Sydport Industrial Park at Point Edward, N.S thereby providing for improved storage of frozen food, ice cream and milk products for the Sydney and surrounding area market. Extensive renovations were also made to the Truro facilities.
1982
A major expansion and/or renovations were begun to the Moncton, Scotsburn and Amherst facilities including an addition to the feed mill in Scotsburn, allowing the organization to manufacture many of its own pre-mixes for preparing livestock feeds.
1983
Renovations were made to the hardware store at Scotsburn in 1983 to increase product lines and availability of products to customers. The Company also purchased the assets of Ideal Ice Cream Company from Baxter Dairies in Sydney and its sales of ice cream and frozen food were integrated with the Sydport and Port Hawkesbury branches.
1984
January 1 - Due to the co-operative basis of each company, Scotsburn and Eastern Dairyfoods had always done their best to work together and maintain a working friendship over the years. On this date, both companies reached an agreement to merge their operations. The merger ensured the continuation of co-operative milk marketing and ownership by milk producers over a greater geographic area. It also meant a further major significant expansion of operations in Eastern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island and provided the organization with an operational base in the processing and distribution of fluid milk in Newfoundland.
The new Dairy Centre was opened at Upper Prince Street in Sydney which led to the consolidation of storage and distribution of all fresh milk and dairy products under the Cape Breton Dairymen and Brookfield labels, following the removal of the Modern City Dairy label. A major reorganization took place in the market area in Northern New Brunswick with the sale of the organization's fixed assets at Newcastle and Campbellton to Northumberland Co-operative Limited. Scotsburn, however, continued to serve its national account customers direct from the Moncton Branch.
1985
Through the efforts of the research and development lab in Antigonish, Scotsburn successfully developed and introduced to the marketplace a new product, namely "Daisy Lite", which was the world's first chocolate milk to be sweetened with aspartame.
1987
The Bridgewater depot was officially opened which covered the areas from Hubbards to Yarmouth. Distribution of fresh milk and dairy products was started from Bridgewater and Kentville, which completed the end-to-end distribution in the Province of Nova Scotia.
1988
The new milk plant in Sydney began processing. The modern structure featured the latest technological advances in computerized process control, on-line butterfat standardizing and plant design. It was officially opened in September of that year.
In its August 1989 issue, Dairy Field, a North American monthly magazine covering the dairy industry, featured Scotsburn's Sydney milk plant as the dairy processing "Plant of the Month" in North America. The brand consolidation of the Scotsburn, Brookfield and Dairyfood names all under the one name of Scotsburn began in '88.
On April 9th the new logo and fluid milk packaging, as well as new fleet design were all revealed. A joint venture with Brookfield Newfoundland occurred in the fall, whereby the assets of Scotsburn's Sunshine Dairy Division were exchanged for shares in the joint venture. It provided Scotsburn with an ideal opportunity to expand its Newfoundland base of operations in a business that it was very familiar with.
1989
A major fluid milk processing expansion began for Brookfield in 1989 at Mount Pearl and they also commenced production of ice cream products for export.
1980's
1980
A decision to close the Scotsburn Pig Nursery had been made.
1981
Scotsburn built a new distribution warehouse in the Sydport Industrial Park at Point Edward, N.S thereby providing for improved storage of frozen food, ice cream and milk products for the Sydney and surrounding area market. Extensive renovations were also made to the Truro facilities.
1982
A major expansion and/or renovations were begun to the Moncton, Scotsburn and Amherst facilities including an addition to the feed mill in Scotsburn, allowing the organization to manufacture many of its own pre-mixes for preparing livestock feeds.
1983
Renovations were made to the hardware store at Scotsburn in 1983 to increase product lines and availability of products to customers. The Company also purchased the assets of Ideal Ice Cream Company from Baxter Dairies in Sydney and its sales of ice cream and frozen food were integrated with the Sydport and Port Hawkesbury branches.
1984
January 1 - Due to the co-operative basis of each company, Scotsburn and Eastern Dairyfoods had always done their best to work together and maintain a working friendship over the years. On this date, both companies reached an agreement to merge their operations. The merger ensured the continuation of co-operative milk marketing and ownership by milk producers over a greater geographic area. It also meant a further major significant expansion of operations in Eastern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island and provided the organization with an operational base in the processing and distribution of fluid milk in Newfoundland.
The new Dairy Centre was opened at Upper Prince Street in Sydney which led to the consolidation of storage and distribution of all fresh milk and dairy products under the Cape Breton Dairymen and Brookfield labels, following the removal of the Modern City Dairy label. A major reorganization took place in the market area in Northern New Brunswick with the sale of the organization's fixed assets at Newcastle and Campbellton to Northumberland Co-operative Limited. Scotsburn, however, continued to serve its national account customers direct from the Moncton Branch.
1985
Through the efforts of the research and development lab in Antigonish, Scotsburn successfully developed and introduced to the marketplace a new product, namely "Daisy Lite", which was the world's first chocolate milk to be sweetened with aspartame.
1987
The Bridgewater depot was officially opened which covered the areas from Hubbards to Yarmouth. Distribution of fresh milk and dairy products was started from Bridgewater and Kentville, which completed the end-to-end distribution in the Province of Nova Scotia.
1988
The new milk plant in Sydney began processing. The modern structure featured the latest technological advances in computerized process control, on-line butterfat standardizing and plant design. It was officially opened in September of that year.
In its August 1989 issue, Dairy Field, a North American monthly magazine covering the dairy industry, featured Scotsburn's Sydney milk plant as the dairy processing "Plant of the Month" in North America. The brand consolidation of the Scotsburn, Brookfield and Dairyfood names all under the one name of Scotsburn began in '88.
On April 9th the new logo and fluid milk packaging, as well as new fleet design were all revealed. A joint venture with Brookfield Newfoundland occurred in the fall, whereby the assets of Scotsburn's Sunshine Dairy Division were exchanged for shares in the joint venture. It provided Scotsburn with an ideal opportunity to expand its Newfoundland base of operations in a business that it was very familiar with.
1989
A major fluid milk processing expansion began for Brookfield in 1989 at Mount Pearl and they also commenced production of ice cream products for export.