The White Cliffs Co-operative Dairy Company Limited was incorporated on 9 September 1908 with capital of £2,000 and with farmers Ernest Skinner, Willie Freeth, Walter Davis, Charles Rowe, Arthur Davis, Alfred Watkin and Archibald McEwan as the initial subscribers.

The White Cliffs butter factory was built by the Crown Dairy Company in late 1899. It was located at 439 Pukearuhe Road on a sub-divided 2 acre block of land.

Chew Chong established the Hunter Road creamery in September 1898 to supply his Jubilee butter factory in Eltham.

Chew Chong established the Te Roti creamery in spring 1893 to supply the Jubilee butter factory in Eltham.

This short lived creamery was built by the Loan & Mercantile Company to supply cream for their butter factory at Mangatoki with the settlers guaranteeing the milk from 400 cows.

Chew Chong established the Rawhitiroa creamery on the corner of Rawhitiroa and Maata Roads in 1898. The creamery supplied the Jubilee butter factory in Eltham.

Because of high butter prices, the Eltham Co-operative Dairy Company Limited decided to build a new butter factory on a site they originally purchased from Herbert Graves in 1904 for £1,283.

When Oaonui settlers bought the Crown company creamery to form a co-operative in 1896, a number of farmers did not want to supply to the co-op and so the Crown company built a creamery in Mr E O’Sullivan’s paddock on the banks of the Moutoti stream.

The Crown Dairy Company built a creamery on the Eltham Road on the west bank of the Taungatara stream in 1897. The creamery was built by Messrs Ross and Sims and the first Manager was William Bremner.

Robert Fitton built a small butter factory on his farm on Dalziel Road, Te Roti around 1890 and ran it until around 1899 eventually having 6 suppliers.

The Crown Dairy Company built a creamery on the Eltham Road on the west bank of the Taungatara stream in 1897. The creamery was built by Messrs Ross and Sims and the first Manager was William Bremner.

The Awatuna company opened a creamery on Patiki Road which appears to have operated between 1901 and 1906 before being advertised for removal in April 1918.

With the success of the Awatuna and Pihama co-operative factories, discontent among the Crown Dairy Company suppliers at the Punehu (Eltham Road) and Taungatara creameries grew to the extent that in October 1898, a delegation of those suppliers requested the Awatuna company to establish a branch factory in the Taungatara district.

Following a meeting on 7 June 1894, The Awatuna Co-operative Dairy Factory Company Limited was incorporated on 25 July 1894 by local farmers who joined forces due to dissatisfaction with The Crown Dairy Company and the distance required to transport their milk to the Crown creameries on the Eltham Road and on the bank of the Taungatara Stream.