Open Country opens butter plant
When American retail giant Cosco came to audit Open Country Dairy’s new butter plant at the Waharoa site and give the green light to supply their American stores, they allowed themselves a week for the exercise.
Seen a giant cheese roll rolling along Southland’s roads?
You aren’t seeing things: in fact, it’s just an Open Country milk tanker that’s had a tasty makeover.
The makeover is the brainchild of Brett Hamilton, the general manager for transport at Open Country’s Awarua depot.
Open Country then turned to the award-winning team at Invercargill’s Creation Signs, who worked on it “all day, all week” to get the cheese roll, also known as ‘Southland Sushi’, tanker finished.
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Seen a giant cheese roll rolling along Southland’s roads?