Welcome to Watson Dairy Consulting

Watson Dairy Consulting provides independent, strictly confidential support to dairy manufacturers, investors, advisers, and project stakeholders worldwide. Led by John Watson, the business brings more than 50 years of hands-on dairy manufacturing experience to projects where technical and commercial decisions are too important for guesswork.

We help clients reduce risk, test assumptions properly, improve profitability, and avoid expensive mistakes through dairy due diligence, feasibility studies, business plans, factory design, expert witness support, yield improvement, and process design.

Our experience covers the full dairy sector, including liquid milk, pasteurised milk, UHT products, cream, butter, cheese, yogurt, cultured products, milk powders, whey processing, infant formula, and plant-based systems. This breadth allows us to assess projects not only from a technical perspective, but also in terms of operability, hygiene, quality, yield, cost, practicality, and long-term business performance.

Watson Dairy Consulting supports clients on greenfield and brownfield projects, acquisitions, expansions, process underperformance, project review, factory optimisation, and high-value decisions requiring credible independent dairy sector judgment.