All Cheese articles – Page 41
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Cheese players turn up health and cut fat
A new probiotic Cheddar and lighter Feta are the latest healthier offerings from cheese manufacturers. Pilgrims Choice medium probiotic cheddar from North Downs Dairy is a six-month matured Cheddar containing a robust strain of...
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Aspatria rival close to Cumbria cheese deal
Building work on a 60,000 tonne cheese plant in Cumbria could begin in April after a breakthrough on milk supplies last week.The company behind the £60m plant, Partners in Cheese, has already secured support from Asda, which buys cheese...
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Bromide ban sparks cheese price worries
Specialist cheese producers who use cloth wrapping techniques to store cheeses during maturation have warned retailers to expect a price hike. The cheese makers have been hit by an EU ban on using the gas methyl bromide to control cheese...
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First Milk set sights on premium cheese
First Milk has set its sights on building a premium own label cheese business out of the factories it has bought from Dairy Crest. First Milk chief exec Peter Humphreys said there were great opportunities to be found in building up...
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Retail cheese margins 'close to record levels'
Retailers are close to making record margins out of cheese, according to a new report from the Milk Development Council. Mild Cheddar earned supermarkets a gross margin - the difference between buying in and selling costs - equivalent to...
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Halliwell to manage First Milk Cheese Co
Jeff Halliwell has been appointed managing director of the First Milk Cheese Company, the new arm of the farmer-owned dairy co-operative, First Milk. Halliwell joins the company, which has been formed following First Milk's acquisition...
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"Today's commercials feature Feta cheese and jingles about Omega-3. That's got to be a good thing, hasn't it?
A baptism of fire. That's one way to describe my first week on The Grocer. On GMTV (twice actually) to talk about Tesco's results. Meeting and greeting at the Gramias on Wednesday night, while celebrating the best in food and drinks...
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Letter of the week Dave Cheesewright, chief operating officer, Asda
I write in response to the letter 'Wal-Mart UK isn't working', which appeared in your publication last week (Letters, The Grocer, 16 September, p28). It is perhaps worth pointing out that since Asda became part of Wal-Mart in 1999 our...
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Dairy Crest to sell cheese operations
Dairy Crest has announced plans to sell the majority of its retailer brand cheese operations to First Milk for £61.9m.The proposed sale, which is subject to approval from First Milk's members, includes the cheddar creameries at Haverfordwest...
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Award win for skinny cheese in fat clothing
Scottish cheese experts have inadvertently given the thumbs up to a half-fat hard cheese. They awarded third prize to the diet cheese at the Royal Highland Show last month, after it was entered anonymously alongside full-fat competitors...
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Cheese with probiotics
A probiotic cheese that has the added benefit of being half-fat will be in Tesco at the end of next month. The mature Cheddar is the result of 12 months' development by Somerset-based Cricketer Farm and has been created to provide...
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TLC that makes a premium cheese head of the curd
To say Liz and Neil Marchant's dreams have come true may be a bit cheesy, but there's no better way to describe the business that the husband and wife team run from their home in Torphins near Aberdeen. The Craigmyle Cheese Company, an...
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'Soaring' UK cheese output was overstated
After more than two years of largely steady prices, at least for the popular mild cheese, UK Cheddar is showing a sharp tendency towards lower prices. Since May, first-hand prices for cheese of UK and Irish origin have moved down 10% to levels...
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Company profile - The Craigmyle Cheese Company
Product: Organic cheeseCustomers: Restaurants and delisOutput: 8 tonnes a yearTo say Liz and Neil Marchant's dreams have come true may be a bit cheesy, but there's no better way to describe the business the husband and wife team run...
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Lancashire cheese joins probiotics fray
Probiotics, a food arena dominated by yoghurt drinks, now has a cheese component in the form of a hard Lancashire cheese from Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses.Made with pasteurised milk, Butlers Probiotic contains Lactobacillus...
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French cheese taps tapas style
Fine Cheeses from France is aiming to reinvent the formal cheeseboard occasion with a £425,000 marketing campaign based on a sharing theme, to begin in June. The drive is designed to capitalise on growth in adult snacking by...
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Consumer Insight: Key Trends in the consumption of cheese in the home and lunchbox
Cheese was consumed on 5.5 billion occasions in the past year, up 2% on the previous year. 72% of consumption occasions are accounted for by...
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Cheese is on a roll
It's time once again to get entries in to the Retail Cheese Awards. Julian Hunt caught up with the very first winner to find out how the art of fine selling has changedTwenty years ago, The Grocer and Dairy Crest teamed up to launch a...
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Les Kol aims to be the big cheese with half the fat
Wyke Farms is pitching its half-fat cheese brand Les Kol against big hitter Mini Babybel in a bid to take a slice of the snacking cheese category.Les Kol On The Go is a tube of five individually wrapped 20g cheese spheres, which Wyke Farms...
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Cowan is new MD of cheese distributor
Speciality cheese importer and distributor Anthony Rowcliffe & Son has appointed Milton Cowan as managing director of the company.Cowan has been at the company for 16 years, joining as general manager before moving up to the position of...