All Butters & spreads articles
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Analysis & Features
Dairy - butters & spreads 2024: price drops can’t prevent BSM squeeze
In spite of lower prices, many suppliers continue to experience major sales declines
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KVI Tracker
Mince pies up 40% year-on-year amid tight sultana and butter supplies
Twenty-six mince lines are pricier this year than last
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KVI Tracker
Butter prices soar by a fifth amid tight milk and cream supplies
Thirty-seven out of 117 butter lines at the major multiples have seen their prices hiked in the five weeks to 13 November
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Events & Awards
The Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2024: Dairy foods
Churned in small batches on a Somerset farm, the winning product blends garlic, parsley, mint and lemon
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News
KP Snacks enters nut butters with Whole Earth Foods deal
KP Snacks has moved into the nut butter category with the acquisition of branded leader Whole Earth Foods
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News
Manilife invests £1m in new factory as a platform for growth
The new 13,500 sq ft site in Derbyshire – set to start production in the first quarter of 2025 – has capacity to store up to six billion peanuts, equating to 15 million jars of peanut butter
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News
Wyke Farms launches new branding for its core range
The new branding will extend across all marketing communications, website and social media
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Analysis & Features
Who holds the power in UK dairy?
UK dairy has become ‘more polarised towards the bigger players’ over the past five years. Here’s a look at the 15 biggest and how they’ve risen to the top
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Analysis & Features
Why is Unilever selling its cream business?
Unilever wants to spin off its £7bn-sales global ice cream business. Why? Who wants to buy it? And will it work?
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Analysis & Features
Creative challenge: next-gen packaging ideas to liven up dairy
We challenged agencies to create packaging fit for the future. Ideas ranged from a refillable ice cream carton to a seaweed-based butter wrapper
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Analysis & Features
How the dairy category is getting fit for the future
Dairy is shaping up for success with a series of major strategic deals, buoyed by slowing inflation and stabilising costs
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Category Report
How can marge get back in fashion? Dairymen butter & spreads category report 2024
Margarine has been in and out of consumers’ favour. Now, it’s losing out to less processed butter with ‘clean’ ingredient lists
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News
All Things Butter launches category-first chocolate butter
The launch forms part of the brand’s mission to expand the category with chef-crafted flavours that create more occasions for butter use
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News
Upfield announces name change to Flora Food Group
The name change capitalises on the company’s longest-standing and most popular brand, Flora
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News
Pilgrims Choice owner Ornua Foods UK sees sales rise in ‘stable’ 2023 accounts
Pre-tax profits remained unchanged at £11.6m on the back of inflation-busting ‘sustainable pricing structures’ said the subsidiary of Irish dairy co-op Ornua
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News
Lurpak launches clean ingredient deck plant-based variant to UK supermarkets
Lurpak Plant Based will be available to British shoppers from 21 August
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News
Kerrygold owner Ornua hires ex-Nestlé exec Cesar França to run Global Foods division
Brazilian França will be responsible for driving the ’continued success and ambitious growth plans’ of Kerrygold, Ornua said
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News
Future of Hollybush butter brand secured after sale to Gower View Foods
The sale follows the announcement its owner Evan Rees (Butter) Ltd is to close
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News
Morrisons launches limited-edition retro butter to mark 125-year anniversary
The anniversary product is a nod to how the company started as an egg and butter market stall in Bradford
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News
Saputo ditches cover papers on spreads in move to slash packaging
Cover papers were were superfluous, having traditionally been used to flatten the product for even filling and to provide a surface for promotional messages, Saputo said