Milk Marque

{{Short description|British dairy industry co-operative}}

File:Logo of Milk Marque UK dairy industry co-operative.svg

Milk Marque was a British dairy industry co-operative that was the successor to the Milk Marketing Board.{{Cite web |last=Live |first=North Wales |date=2005-10-05 |title=Milk Marque vote clears way for £15m investment |url=https://www.dailypost.co.uk/business/business-news/milk-marque-vote-clears-way-2903822 |access-date=2023-09-21 |website=North Wales Live |language=en}} At one point, Milk Marque controlled over half of the UK market for raw milk.{{Cite web |title=CURIA - Documents |url=https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=48550&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=672935 |access-date=2023-09-21 |website=curia.europa.eu}}

In 2000, Milk Marque's activities were split into three separate regional successor companies following a report by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission.{{Cite web |date=1999-09-17 |title=The end of Milk Marque |url=https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/the-end-of-milk-marque-3 |access-date=2023-09-21 |website=Farmers Weekly |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=12 February 2004 |title=Milk Marque: Volume 417: debated on Thursday 12 February 2004 |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2004-02-12/debates/08ae484e-a0fc-4e6c-90f0-5c2ee03426d3/MilkMarque |access-date=2023-09-21 |website=Hansard}} The three successor companies were Axis, Zenith Milk, and Milk Link.{{Cite web |date=20 December 2007 |title=Anticipated merger between First Milk Limited and Milk Link Limited |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/555de3c0ed915d7ae50000be/FirstMilk2.pdf |access-date=2023-09-21 |website=assets.publishing.service.gov.uk |publisher=Office of Fair Trading}}

Milk Marque continued as a corporate entity subsequent to the break-up, becoming a private limited company.