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Comment & Opinion
Despite uncertainties, the UK’s dairy sector has plenty to be positive about
Investors clearly have a good reason for putting their money behind dairy
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Category Report
A simple aim: Dairymen yoghurt category report 2025
Shoppers are increasingly spooked by long, complicated ingredient lists. So, yoghurt suppliers are going clean label
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Category Report
Spread too thin? Dairymen butter & spreads category report 2025
Increasing labour costs, squeezed milk supplies and increasing demand are all pushing up the price of butter to melting point
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Category Report
Full-fat indulgence: Dairymen milk category report 2025
Demand for creamier, full-fat milk is soaring as dietary advice turns in its favour and shoppers shun processed food & drink
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Category Report
The real big cheese: Dairymen continental cheese category report 2025
Continental cheeses like parmesan are booming. But the threat of food fraud looms – and suppliers are working hard to wipe it out
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Category Report
Blue bounces back: Dairymen British cheese category report 2025
As cheddar sales drop, British blue has benefited from a hunger for flavour, heritage and authenticity among younger shoppers
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Analysis & Features
Meet the local ice cream innovators causing a stir
As more Brits opt for summer holidays on home shores, local ice cream specialists are responding with imaginative flavours, innovation and passion
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Analysis & Features
How Emmi has made a cheese factory of the future in Switzerland
After a £47m investment, the brand-new cheese factory is now fully operational and one of the most advanced in the world.
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Analysis & Features
Is the EU’s ‘reset’ deal with the UK truly a ‘win-win’?
A new SPS agreement is designed to cut red tape and costs for exporters. It’s come too late for some, but ministers promise a ‘transformative impact’
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Category Report
The viral scoop: Dairymen ice cream category report 2025
Creating online buzz is a key aim for smaller ice cream brands. But can clicks translate to long-term success?
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Category Report
Sugar crash: dairy drinks Dairymen 2025 category report
Dairy drinks have enjoyed sweet sales growth – but potential inclusion in the soft drinks industry levy is turning things sour
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Category Report
How functional can dairy get?
Today’s shoppers want enhanced benefits from their food and drink – and suppliers say dairy is perfectly positioned to take advantage
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Analysis & Features
Can plant-based dairy avoid the fate of alt-meat?
As meat alternatives battle shopper misgivings around taste and processing levels, plant-based milks and yoghurts are continuing to gain ground
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Analysis & Features
Inside Arla’s Bovaer crisis and its aftermath
Last year, Arla Foods found itself in a social media storm of misinformation over its trial of feed additive Bovaer. What has been the fallout?
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Analysis & Features
McCormick’s Seán Hanifin on Irish cream liqueur and ‘cow FitBits’
What’s behind Five Farms’ ‘posh Baileys’? Five Farms Irish Cream Liqueur is touted as the “world’s first farm-to-table” version of the tipple
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Interviews
How Yeo Valley is diversifying from dairy and ‘democratising organic’
Yeo Valley’s Tim Mead and Rob Sexton tell all on ambitious acquisitions, diversification away from dairy and the UK’s ‘democratisation of organic’
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Analysis & Features
Is a strong year for dairy M&A a sign of a healthy sector?
Dairy’s ability to play into key consumer trends has heralded a busy year of deals, usually a sign of a sector in good health
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Feature Synopsis
The Dairymen 2025: 20 September
This year’s Dairymen will look at M&A activity, methane emmissions, functional dairy and much, much more
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Analysis & Features
Inside the pecorino push
Pecorino romano has long been in the shadow of other Italian hard cheeses in the UK. Now it’s the subject of an EU campaign
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Analysis & Features
Pembrokeshire Creamery: a new dawn for Welsh milk supply?
After a series of failures for the local market, Pembrokeshire Creamery wants to make sure Wales can again process its own supply. Big contracts and big capacity goals are in place