UK – Scottish dairy company Robert Wiseman Dairies has announced that it is to open a distribution centre near London in a results statement for the first six months of 2003.

The new depot will be set up within the next 12 months, and will service both London and the southeast. It is the latest move in Wiseman’s aggressive expansion south from its native Scotland. It will also open a depot at Chester-Le-Street, which will service the northeast of England, by about September 2004.

The company’s pre-tax profit was up 21.1% on the first six months of 2002, reaching