We have had over 1,000 customers register with us since Christmas. Around 200-300 people registered the previous year. In business terms, that’s pretty substantial. At the moment it looks like there is a demand.” Read More Related Articles I used to do my own round in Salford. People used to stand on their doorsteps for five minutes and have a chat. When another guy took over he told me they were asking for me. There are also future plans to try and make the business even greener by the end of the year, with the transit vans they use to cover further distances being transformed into battery operated vehicles. Read More Related Articles Creamline Dairies, which runs 120 milk rounds across the region, has seen 1,000 new customers sign up for milk deliveries between January and March this year.

Mr Oakes added that these price increases for farmers is likely to be a long-term problem. "The implications of current rises could well last for two years. Feed, fuel and fertiliser are the key inputs and we’re also seeing issues with labour and the costs of labour so we’ve got a whole tsunami of costs coming towards us and it’s really really difficult," he said. Müller Milk & Ingredients which aims to be Britain’s private label dairy leader and produces branded and private label fresh milk, cream, butter and ingredients products. It boasts a network of dairies and depots servicing customers throughout the country. This led to commenters speculating a Boxing Day roll-out date, which might be a bit early for Easter prep, but we’ll allow it if that means we get Creme Egg Bars all year round.Rob, who has been working as a milkman for 12 years, has noticed the increase in customers over the last three months.

But for all the enthusiasm about the bar, some commenters were adamant that it was simply too early. ‘Let’s have Christmas first!’ one Facebook user requested, while another was more blunt about their seasonal preferences, saying, ‘We haven’t have Christmas yet, go away.’ Rob, of Little Hulton, starts his shift whatever the weather at 1.30am, delivering milk to Cadishead, Eccles, Walkden, Irlam, Farnworth and Kearsley. The best thing about the job is getting home early, no rush hour traffic and meeting people and being out. The Manchester Evening News spoke to milkman Robert Arnold to find out about how traditional milk delivery is thriving in the region - and what it is like to work a busy milk round.We were just keen to eat the thing though. The hardest part about it was trying not to eat any chocolate as we built the thing. He drives a traditional electric milk float, like the majority of the Creamline Dairies milkmen. It travels at speeds of 10-20mph. Dairy giant Arla's boss, Ash Amirahmadi, 'called time' on cheap milk in a statement two weeks ago saying farmers have been facing squeezed milk prices for years. In the last 10 years consumer prices have gone up 26 per cent as a whole, Mr Amirahmadi said, but the price of milk has dropped by 7 per cent in the same period.