All Saputo UK articles – Page 8
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Cathedral City snack selection for adults
Dairy Crest is launching a new Cathedral City sub-brand to drive consumption of its Cheddar as a snack for adults.
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Milk giants bow to pressure over price cuts
First Milk has caved in to farmers’ demands and ditched its planned 1.7ppl price cut.
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City news: Britvic shares bounce back
Britvic shares have bounced back after the Fruit Shoot recall wiped £97m off the value of the stock last week.
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Dairy Crest gives farmers more freedom to quit
Dairy Crest is reducing its contract notice period to three months, giving its farmers a quicker way to quit in the event of another farmgate milk price cut.
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Dairy Crest weighs up extending £50m Frijj
Dairy Crest is eyeing a brand extension for Frijj as it seeks to double sales of the milkshake brand to £100m within five years.
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Retailers defend milk price model in wake of cuts
Big five retailers who do not use cost of production payment models for their milk have moved to defend their stance in the wake of this week’s “catastrophic” processor price cuts.
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Dairy Crest cuts milk price again
Dairy Crest has followed Robert Wiseman Dairies in announcing a further cut to its standard farmgate milk price.
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Dairy Crest scores first with Clover Seedburst
Dairy Crest is hoping to take functional spreads to the next level with the launch of a UK first-to-market…
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Who'll get St Hubert - trade or private equity?
Trade buyers should not be written off as potential buyers of Dairy Crest’s French spreads division just because of rumoured…
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Write-downs send Dairy Crest £10m into the red
Dairy Crest has plunged to a £10m loss after writing down the value of its dairies business.
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Troubled Dairy Crest takes axe to field sales team
Dairy Crest has axed a quarter of its field sales team, as it retreats from supplying milk to the fiercely competitive middle-ground market.
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Dairy Crest cuts milk price for contracted farmers
Dairy Crest has announced a 2p per litre cut to the price paid to farmers on its standard contract, as it continues to try to shore up its struggling liquid milk business.
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Comment and Opinion
Dairy Crest is doing the right thing
Dairy Crest’s announcement of plant closures and lost retail business is understandably of major significance to dairy farmers.
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Arla reclaims Tesco deal from snubbed Dairy Crest
Arla has triumphed over Dairy Crest by winning back the Tesco business it lost to the company almost 18 months ago.
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Dairy Crest rocked by loss of Tesco milk deal
Dairy Crest has lost its contract to supply liquid milk to Tesco, less than 18 months after gaining a supply foothold with the nation’s biggest retailer.
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Analysis and Features
Soaring costs create crushing climate for milk processors
It’s no secret that life in UK liquid milk is tough. Rising input costs, fierce competition for supply and supermarket price wars have put processor margins under continuing strain.
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Dimbleby calls on Dairy Crest to donate disused site to community
A lobby group fronted by BBC presenter Jonathan Dimbleby has launched a six-month campaign to bring a disused Dairy Crest site in Totnes into community ownership.
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Profiles and QandAs
Taylor to leave Dairy Crest procurement role
Dairy Crest’s group milk procurement director Mark Taylor is to leave the dairy giant at the beginning of next year.
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Dairy Crest unveils online Chedds game
The tie-up between Dairy Crest’s Chedds brand and Cartoon Network has kicked off with an online game featuring the characters of the Chedds TV ad.
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Smaller, greener tubs for Dairy Crest spreads
Dairy Crest is overhauling the packaging of its spreads portfolio in a bid to address growing consumer concerns about packaging waste and to provide a more user-friendly tub.