All Dairy articles – Page 206
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Going beyond liquid assets
Soya suppliers have spotted the potential beyond 'milk', and are turning to non-traditional soya products to develop interest, with considerable success. Sales of soya yoghurts are up 27% to £18.9m and they now form the second-biggest...
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There's a wealth of alternative choices
Sir; Cutting down on meat and milk has been little-disputed advice in the past few years and has stimulated redoubled campaigning. Goods rated meat-free, dairy-free, and cruelty-free combine interests in tackling obesity, waste, and...
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Milk Link defies costs to push up sales 2.8%
Milk Link has defied the cost pressure in the dairy industry to post a strong set of full year financial results. The farmer-owned processor this week reported a 2.8% increase in turnover to £523m for the year to 29 March, with EBITDA...
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Sainsbury's trials high-welfare milk
A new 'ethical' milk sourced from higher-welfare cows and packaged in a new recyclable pouch is being trialled in 35 Sainsbury's stores.Developed by the Contented Cow Company, Freedom Food-certified Precious Milk went into stores last...
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Feed costs set to push up organic milk price
The price of organic milk could rise by as much as 16p for four pints this year if production costs continue to soar, a new report has warned.Each 1ppl increase in the farmgate price would add 3.2p to the price of a typical price of a...
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Wake up to a healthy breakfast partnership
They have always been the cornerstone of British breakfasts , but despite being the apparently perfect match, milk and cereal have tended to promote themselves as separate entities. That all changes next week with the launch of the first...
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What the papers said
?Sainsbury's has started selling milk packaged in a recyclable plastic pouch in 35 of its stores to try to reduce packaging waste, according to The Times. The pouches, produced in partnership with Dairy Crest, are claimed to reduce milk...
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Radox's pamper lines inspired by smoothies
Radox hopes to cash in on the smoothies trend with the launch of a 'smoothies for the body' shower range containing cranberry seeds and real yoghurt among its ingredients.The brand, known for its herb-based products, said "incorporating...
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Kraft plots sister brand to Dairylea
Kraft looks set to launch the first sister brand to Dairylea in the cheese spread's 50-year history. It has applied to register Creamylea as a trademark under a number of categories, including yoghurts, cheese and cheese products as well...
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Soaring costs blamed for One a Day's failure
Müller has axed its £12m One a Day brand, blaming rising costs for forcing it to increase its price and its failure to meet sales targets.The range of five yoghurts and three yoghurt drinks, which was less than a year old, will be phased...
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"To have pulled Tropicana after such a short period would have been like turning down JK Rowling's little wizard"
The credit crunch has replaced 9/11 as the excuse for everything. So how are we to view the delisting of Müller's One a Day? (p4, p56)It was a nice product: on trend, ticking lots of boxes, such as health and convenience. And in less...
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Lurpak push widens lead over Flora to £32m
Lurpak is targeting £250m in sales by 2010 as it widened its lead over Flora in the butter and spreads aisle from £6m to £32m.The Arla butter brand, which last year knocked Flora off the top spot for the first time in 20 years, plans to...
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Milk Link turns up Oswestry volume
Milk Link has completed the first phase of a major upgrade of The Cheese Company's Oswestry packing plant in a bid to transform it into the most advanced facility of its kind in the UK.It has spent £2.5m so far on phase one of Project...
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Unilever puts cooking to the fore with Flora
Flora is hoping to revive the fortunes of its margarine spreads with a £9m campaign to target kids and parents through a school educational drive.Cooking with Schools will see Flora reduce the focus on functionality and return to its...
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insight - yellow fats consumers
AGE PROFILE of yellow fats consumers Children 0-1012% 11-167% Male 17-3410% 35-6421% 65+10% Female 17-3410% 35-6419% 65+12% Info: Usage overview of yellow fats. In-home and lunchbox The yellow fats market is worth £975m in value There were 15.3bn...
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Asda is irresponsible for discounting milk
Sir; Two four-pints of milk for £2! Are you crazy, Asda? Did you not learn from last time? In 2006, Asda took the great step of knocking 11p off its four-pints of milk while claiming it was still giving its farmers a fair price and not reducing...
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Multiples hike price of four pints by 10p
The major supermarkets have all increased the in-store price of milk over the past week in a move that is expected to be followed by major c-store chains and independents.A four-pint of semi-skimmed milk rose 10p to £1.44 last week in...
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Well done Morrisons (but none too soon)
Sir; At a time when dairy farmers are facing rising fuel, feed and fertiliser costs, supermarket group Morrisons must be congratulated for increasing its milk buying prices and for telling processors to pass the extra 1p a litre (0.568p a pint)...