Orkney Creamery is a family business, first established as a farm in 1948. Although the farming business is still there today, albeit on a smaller scale, the business has developed into a creamery that supplies all of the liquid milk requirements for Orkney. In 1997, as consumers started to switch from full-fat milk to skimmed and semi-skimmed, the extra cream was used to produce luxury ice cream that could be sold across the whole of Scotland. In recent years the business has diversified into confectionery. To do this it bought two small confectionery businesses.