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Fun for the younger ones
Cheese snacks that talk to children in their own language have tremendous further sales potentialHaving grown by £21m over the past three years, children’s cheese is one of the strongest-growing segments of the total cheese market,...
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Adult entertainments
Sharp manufacturers have spotted the potential of formats for the grown-ups that make sophisticated nibbling easyPerhaps the biggest news in the cheese market over the past year has been the emergence of the adult snacking...
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Consumer Feedback
>>processed forms have greater respectabilityConsumers’ perceptions of cheese – and of what excites them – have been undergoing a quiet revolution over the past decade. One of the key factors driving change has been health –...
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Fast food does the Continental
Cheese from across the Channel is increasingly popular with British consumers and is also widening appeal by being offered in convenience, snacking and dinner party formatsContinental cheeses now represent the fastest-growing sector...
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‘You must back us – or sack us’
Defra’s review of the levy bodies and the Milk Development Council’s highly dismissive response to it (The Grocer, November 26, p54) is turning into a test of loyalty for the dairy industry’s political bodies. Anything other than a full...
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Milk Link boosts capability of fresh dairy ingredients arm
Milk Link Ingredient Services is implementing a major business development programme at its Staplemead creamery to capitalise on the growth in the fresh dairy ingredient business. The ingredients arm of farmer co-op Milk Link estimates it has a...
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Aptamil milk advert falls foul of ASA
Baby food and milk suppliers may have to tread even more carefully in advertising products in the future, after a ruling against Milupa for its new Aptamil Growing Up Milk.The Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint by a doctor...
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Milk flavours for impulse buyers
Arla Food’s Cravendale brand is hoping to steal share from soft drinks, juices and smoothies with an ‘on the hoof’ single-serve milk product.The supplier is extending the successful fresh filtered Cravendale milk brand into slender half-pint...
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Strong contenders
The distinctive and often powerful flavours of British Cheddars and territorials give them ongoing appealWe Brits have a longstanding love affair with Cheddar and the category now makes up slightly more than 50% of all cheese sales...
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Strong contenders
The distinctive and often powerful flavours of British Cheddars and territorials give them ongoing appealWe Brits have a longstanding love affair with Cheddar and the category now makes up slightly more than 50% of all cheese sales...
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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...
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The Boys are wafflin’
The Fabulous Bakin’ Boys has gone all Continental with its latest snacking product – a chocolate Belgian waffle.Chocolaty Waffle has a milk chocolate flavour coating and has been developed to offer consumers an indulgent European alternative to...
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No reason to fear OFT, says FFA
Dairy farmers’ leaders have warned processors and retailers not to use the Office of Fair Trading’s investigation into suspected price fixing of liquid milk to justify inaction on farmgate prices.Earlier this month Robert Wiseman Dairies and...
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Wizard way to make butter convenient
The days of butter being too hard or too soft could be numbered, thanks to the first fully portable temperature-controlled butter dish.ButterWizard looks like an ordinary butter dish but maintains butter at its optimum spreading temperature of...
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Bacteria to the future
Will Yakult regret sticking to a sober scientific message while its rivals thrive on a slicker approach? Stefan Chomka thinks notImagine Coca-Cola losing its market dominance in the UK to Virgin Cola, or Pringles falling to number two...
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Dairies clash over price claims
Dairy Crest boss Drummond Hall has blasted claims made by rival processor Robert Wiseman Dairies last week that it pays a “significant premium” for milk compared with other dairies.Hall told The Grocer that the matter of milk prices was complex...
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First dairy product from Jersey makes its UK debut in Harrods
Dairy products made in Jersey are becoming available on the UK mainland for what is said to be the first time.Jersey Dairy has gained a listing for its yoghurt in Harrods, which is stocking Jersey’s Finest, a blend of natural yoghurt and...
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Dairy Crest/Wiseman price fixing suspected
Milk processors Dairy Crest and Robert Wiseman Dairies are at the centre of an OFT probe into suspected price fixing.It remains unclear whether the OFT is also questioning other dairies and major retailers. A spokeswoman refused to reveal the...
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Supplier Spotlight
Woodlands Park Dairy boss Richard Murray came to the enterprise as a business consultant with no experience of making yoghurt.Murray’s intention in 1987 was only to help the owner sell the yoghurt-making side of his sheep and goat farm.But...
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On the Campaign Trail
>>cravendale cows take on a strawberry colour...bisto encourages friends and family to share a meal...fishy business with st ivel advance... Glenfiddich inspires great conversations...Hint of...Budget:...