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about Mackies

L to R, Mac, Kirstin, Maitland, Karin and Bernie

We believe that MACKIE'S ice cream is different - and that the reasons include the product, our people and our location. All Mackie's ice cream is made at the farm in Aberdeenshire in our "design chain" from the wind for renewable energy, crops for nutrition for our cows, who make designer creamy milk and cream for our luxury ice cream. It's a real plough to plate - or cow to cone story. Here we tell you more about our history, who we are and where we are.

Four generations of
Maitland Mackie's -
our MD is the youngest

MACKIE'S today is the outcome of the effort and foresight of four generations of Mackie's and their staff.

Ice cream is currently the main focus of the business - employing 70 people and producing over 7 million litres of luxury ice cream a year.

L to R Halldis (non exec Director/mother), Mac (MD), Karin (Marketing Director), Kirstin (Development Director) and Maitland Mackie (chairman) with 'Mackies Elgin Allie'

MACKIE'S farming and food business is owned by Maitland and Halldis Mackie and their family Karin, Mac and Kirstin who each have Senior Management positions in the business.

MACKIE'S ice cream is now well established as brand leader in the luxury ice cream market in Scotland, has an increasing market share in England and is being exported to Seoul, South Korea and Norway.

The Mackie family have been farming at Westertown farm since the turn of the century, but it was only in 1986 that the kernel of today's main business was added - with pilot trials for an ice cream. In 1993 the traditional byre and old mill were converted to a modern ice cream dairy capable of producing more than 10 million Litres a year. In 1996 the New Product Development Kitchen was added. In 2006 production machinery was added to raise capacity in the ice cream dairy to 6,000 litres per hour.

MACKIE'S vision is to be a global brand from the greenest company in Britain created by people having fun.

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