All Dairy articles – Page 178
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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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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NewsFFA 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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NewsMelton 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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NewsKerrygold’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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NewsMilk 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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NewsTesco turns patriotic with UK-sourced Yoo yoghurts
Tesco has thrown down the gauntlet to yoghurt giants Danone and Müller with the launch of a new 'patriotic' tertiary yoghurt brand that promises to be 100% British and 20% cheaper than "foreign" yoghurts.
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NewsRustlers 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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Analysis & FeaturesFarmers 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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NewsUnilever: ‘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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NewsRange review swells Waitrose cheese offer
Waitrose has completely revamped its pre-pack cheese fixture, adding 80 new lines as well as an entirely new 'better plus' tier of high-quality artisan cheeses. The chain is also expanding its own-label Essential range by a further 15...
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NewsLake District Cheese gets new formats
First Milk is extending The Lake District Cheese Co brand of Cheddar into convenience formats with the launch of grated cheese and portion-size packs. Lake District Grated (£1.99 for a 200g pack) and Lake District Bites (£1.49 for six 20g...
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NewsCheap 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...
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NewsBallyrashane plans anaerobic digester
Ballyrashane is set to become the first dairy in Northern Ireland to build an anaerobic digester. Ballyrashane a dairy co-operative that supplies all of M&S’s liquid milk requirement in Northern and the Republic of Ireland hopes…
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Comment & OpinionAd 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...