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Brits show off quiff upper lip
First it was milk, putting a creamy smear on the top lip of stars like Pixie Lott, Gordon Ramsay and Usher.Now the awesome marketing power of the moustache has been deployed twice in a week. Absurdist nut lover Captain Tiptoes, a…
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Mars and Cadbury unveil latest NPD in fight for bite-size
Mars and Cadbury have both unveiled products targeted at the growing demand for bite-size chocolate treats. In a first for the Cadbury Dairy Milk brand in the UK, Chocos will offer consumers 11 round pieces of chocolate in a roll-pack…
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Dairy Crest: price dispute behind Co-operative Group contract loss
The recent loss of Dairy Crest's milk contract with The Co-operative Group was down to its inability to agree the right price, the company has revealed.
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Dairy Crest website pushes up milk price
Dairy Crest has increased the price of a pint of milk sold through its Milk & More doorstop delivery service by 3p.The move, announced last weekend, means one pint of semi-skimmed Countrylife milk in a glass bottle bought through...
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Collier’s cheese delisting sparks fear of wider cull
Collier’s Powerful Welsh Cheddar has become the first victim of a branded Cheddar category range review by Sainsbury’s.
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Alpro Soya in Coffee Week sponsorship
Alpro Soya will boost its presence across the coffee and foodservice sectors by becoming the sponsor of the UK's first-ever Coffee Week, kicking off on 4 April.The event revolves around Project Waterfall, a scheme in support of...
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Focus On Yoghurts & Pot Desserts: Is the pot half full or half empty?
After growing strongly, the yoghurts & pot desserts category has slowed as commodity hikes have hit home. Could big pots and big brands hold the answer, asks Simon Creasey
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Focus On Yoghurts & Pot Desserts: Cheesecakes lead way for chilled desserts
Chilled desserts has seen the best growth over the past two years, up nearly 10% in 2009 and 3.5% in 2010. This is due primarily to price increases.
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Focus On Yoghurts & Pot Desserts: Artisanal pot flavours find favour
With larger manufacturers increasingly offering 'farmhouse style' variants, it's never been more difficult for genuine artisan producers to gain a foothold in the market - especially in the face of the heavy promotional activity of some of the industry behemoths.
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Focus On Yoghurts & Pot Desserts: Actimel ready to bring it on
Earlier this year Danone launched a £2.6m national campaign for its Actimel drinking yoghurt called Bring It On. The campaign included TV ads as well as outdoor and digital media.
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Focus On Yoghurts & Pot Desserts: Innovations
Last month New Zealand duo Mark Collins and Cara Cunningham launched Little Melton, a small-batch artisan yoghurt made from British milk, and local ingredients wherever possible.
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FFA threatens cheesemakers with protests
Cheese producers have become the latest target for Farmers For Action, which has threatened protests at the cheesemaking factories of Dairy Crest and Lactalis McLelland. The protest group which two weeks ago announced plans to build its...
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Kerrygold’s honey butter to start fridge revolution
Kerrygold is setting out to “revolutionise” Brits’ consumption of butter and honey with the launch of the UK’s first honey-flavoured butter. The market for flavoured butters has been growing steadily recently, and is now worth £2.7m, up…
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Melton Mowbray to host cheese festival
Cheesemakers in Melton Mowbray are launching a new event to rival established UK cheese festivals in a bid to support artisan cheeses from the local area. The Artisan Cheese Fair organised jointly by the Stilton Cheesemakers'...
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Milk Link recruits the MD of Adams Foods
Adams Foods' managing director Carl Ravenhall is to take up a senior executive position with dairy co-operative Milk Link in late summer. Ravenhall will report to chief executive Neil Kennedy and will play a leading role in the delivery...
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Farmers take global gamble with plans for powder plant
Is Farmers for Action’s plan to abandon supermarket milk and play the global commodities markets a smart move, ask Richard Ford and Julia Glotz
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Ad of the Week: Cravendale changes tack with cats’ new rule of thumb
They say you can tell how crazy a woman is by how many cats she keeps. It's usually one for each time she was jilted at the altar. There's something rather sinister about these purring barometers of post-menopausal desperation, which...
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Rustlers kicks off NPD with Hot Wraps
Kepak Convenience Foods has added wraps to its Rustlers portfolio in a bid to double sales to £140m. The Rustlers Hot Wraps duo, rolling out now, consists of a Chicken Salsa with Cheese and a BBQ Chicken with Cheese variant (rsp:...
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Unilever: ‘expecting great things’ from its chilled cooking oil
Unilever is hoping to inject a bit of cool into the cooking oil category with Flora Cuisine, the UK's first major chilled oil launch. The oil, which is rolling out now, is made from a blend of linseed, rapeseed and sunflower oils and...
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Cheap Cheddar on the way out as prices rise
Shoppers may soon need to get used to seeing far fewer promotions on Cheddar as soaring cheese prices threaten to make aggressive pricing strategies unviable. Cut-throat promotions have seen standard 400g packs of mature Cheddar...