Magnolia (branded as F&N Magnolia) is a brand of dairy products owned by Singaporean multinational conglomorate Fraser and Neave (F&N). Aside from Singapore, the product is also sold in several other countries throughout the Asia-Pacific as well as at Asian supermarkets in non-Asian countries.[1]
History
Early years
The Singaporean company Cold Storage, which was then known as the Singapore Cold Storage Company, was the main manufacturer of ice in Singapore. Taking advantage of the booming ice manufacturing and refrigeration business, Cold Storage ventured into the ice cream business. In 1923, a small factory was set up at the Borneo Wharf of the Harbourfront district to manufacture ice cream under the Paradise brand.[2]
Tropical dairy farm at Bukit Timah
In 1937, Australian Fred Heron, the managing director of Cold Storage, founded the world's first tropical dairy farm at the Bukit Timah district of Singapore, which aimed to produce fresh pasteurised milk. This farm, then known as the Singapore Dairy Farm, was situated inside what is now the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve. It kept as many as 800 cows. Pasteurised milk produced at the farm was packaged in pyramid-shaped cartons and sold under the brand Magnolia.[3]
External links
- – Magnolia Milk Singapore
- F&N Creameries
References
- F&N on earnings recovery path 5 August 2020, retrieved 2022-04-07^
- Goh Chor Boon. Technology and Entrepot Colonialism in Singapore, 1819-1940 ISEAS Publishing, 2013-06-04, retrieved 2022-04-07^
- S'pore was once home to the world's first successful tropical dairy farm