Dairy Crest backs scheme with £60m of cheese

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Dairy Crest has used £60m worth of maturing cheese to back its pension liabilities after trustees raised concerns over the sponsor covenant following the £341m sale of spreads business St Hubert.

The arrangement, which gives the scheme a floating charge over some the firm's £150m inventory of maturing cheese that will crystallise in the event of an insolvency, is party of a wider refinancin...

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