Modern Milkman

The Modern Milkman (Modern Milkman Ltd) operates an app- and web-based doorstep delivery service that supplies fresh milk, groceries and household products to households in the UK and, since 2024, parts of the north-eastern and midwestern United States. The core proposition is a modernised milk round: goods are sourced from independent farmers, dairies, bakers and other local producers and delivered overnight, with orders arriving on the doorstep before roughly 07:30. Product categories span milk, tea and coffee, bakery, fruit juice, milkshakes, butter and cheese, yoghurts, eggs, fresh produce, meat and fish, food cupboard items, bundles and doorstep/household solutions.

Ordering is managed through a smartphone app or website, with customers able to set recurring deliveries and skip, pause or amend orders up to a cut-off the day before (stated as 4pm on the company website; the app listing and other pages cite an 8pm or 9pm order cut-off for next-day delivery, and up to three delivery days per week in some locations). Milk is delivered in glass bottles and other items in returnable or reusable containers; drivers collect rinsed empties on the next round, and the company also collects clothes, toys, plastics, electricals and other items for donation or recycling.

The business was founded by Simon Mellin, who grew up on a farm near Burnley, Lancashire, and bought a local milk round in Laneshaw Bridge near Colne in August 2018 after watching the BBC series Blue Planet. It is headquartered in Manchester (4th Floor, 111 Piccadilly), having earlier been based in Colne, Lancashire, and has raised more than £60m in total funding from investors including Insight Partners, ETF Partners, Praetura Ventures, Avery Dennison and Salica Investments.