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THE STORY BEHIND HERITAGE AND TAUNTON CIDER
How HERITAGE CIDER was born
The Taunton Cider brand steadily became a household name and by the 1980’s it was
the second largest cider maker in the UK, just behind Bulmers.
By 1991 a management buyout saw the brand floated on the
stock market and eventually bought by Matthew Clark plc in
1995 for £256m. In 1998 the famous Norton Fitzwarren site had
closed down and hundreds of locals had lost their jobs.
Fortunately, the story doesn’t end there… In 2015 we saw
that the trademark had been let go and realised that
there was an opportunity to reform such an iconic brand.
Taunton Cider has been part of cider making from
the beginning. It has a long heritage and has now
been reinvigorated with a new passion.
In 2023, Heritage Cider brought the Taunton Cider
Company brand and doubled the warehouse size to enable larger pressing and storage facilities, and hopefully to levels of achievement only seen decades before.
Management Team
Dedication. Expertise. Passion.
We would like to introduce you to our dedicated management team.
