World leadership

Dairy Goat Co-operative was established in 1984 from an amalgamation of several goat milk co-operatives around New Zealand. Since challenging times in the beginning, we have grown and flourished, primarily because of the innovative development and commercialisation of our goat milk-based formula products in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Since achieving success in markets such as New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan, our export markets have continued to grow, and DGC’s formula products are now well-established in 30 countries around the globe.

Since 2003, DGC has enjoyed the benefits of our own manufacturing plant, with spray drying, dry blending, can forming and canning facilities. These plants are all on the same Hamilton site alongside the company’s head office.

DGC’s governance structure, as a co-operative, consists of a board of eight directors. Of these, five are elected from the shareholding suppliers, and three are independent directors. In addition, there are 72 supplying shareholders who supply milk to the co-operative and who are the owners of the company.

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Our gently made formula

Typical infant formula made from cow, sheep or goat milk has extra processing and heating steps as they are made…

Blending

Our state of the art blending plant enables us to add the additional nutrients…

Milk collection & delivery to factory

DGC has end to end production facilities on its site in Hamilton, New Zealand. Milk…

Animal Welfare and Health

New Zealand has a strict Code of Welfare for Goats. It specifies what is…