Dairy could deal directly with commercial businesses
SHOPS and supermarkets will be able to deal directly with Guernsey Dairy in the future, but Guernsey's milkmen and women will receive no compensation under new proposals put forward by Commerce and Employment.
The department concluded its work looking at 'optimum arrangements' for the distribution and retailing of milk and dairy products and has recommended that the dairy be able to sell to any commercial customer.
And as, it says, distributors do not have, nor ever have had, exclusive rights to distribute the dairy's products or exclusive rights to particular territories it did not believe that any mitigation measures were necessary.
The department compiled eight options for the future of distribution, recommending its third option.
It weighed-up all eight against whether they would be low cost, simple, commercially-flexible and would maintain sales.
The dairy being able to sell to any commercial customer ticked all the boxes, it said in the September Billet.