All Dairy articles – Page 224
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Dairylea dominates the aisles with promotions
Kraft's Dairylea is romping ahead in the cheese category chart, taking a whopping 70% of featured space promotional activity for the category last weekend - 59 percentage points clear of its closest rival Cathedral City.
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Awards data washed away
Britain's self-proclaimed biggest cheese awards have been thrown into confusion following the summer floods.Organisers of the Great British Cheese Festival, due to be held in Frilford, Oxfordshire, on 28-30 September, are...
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Canaries target UK with cheese drive
Cheese from the Canary Islands could appear on cheese boards up and down the country after producers launched a promotion to boost trade with the UK.Spanish importer Brindisa is already supplying some of the more mature Manchego-style...
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Reprieve for flavoured milk drinks for schools
Schools in England will be allowed to offer flavoured milk drinks to pupils after a climbdown by the School Food Trust.The Trust initially insisted that only drinks containing milk and fruit juice were allowed in schools, but has changed...
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Processors lift prices to appease farmers
Dairy companies have announced a raft of huge liquid milk price hikes for farmers, in an effort to quell frustration about low returns in the industry. Major processors Dairy Crest and Arla Foods have broken the 25ppl barrier with the price rises...
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Cheese in a flutter
Cheesemaker Shepherds Purse has gone to the dogs - literally. It's won a contract to supply its Ryedale branded cheese to restaurants at greyhound stadiums run by the Greyhound Racing Association. Maggotcha! Three men in the Dutch...
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What the papers said - 18th August 2007
Milk prices could rise by as much as 15% this autumn, according to Mark Allen, chief executive of Dairy Crest. In an interview with the FT Allen said that the severe wet weather and spiralling costs of cereal-based animal feeds, which hit 11-year...
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Utterly Butterly adds healthier Omega-3
An Omega-3 variant has joined the Utterly Butterly portfolio as part of a makeover to position the spread as a healthier option. The core range has been reformulated with lower saturated fat levels, while still aiming to deliver on taste....
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Alpro soya
Alpro soya, the number one soya brand in the UK, is focused on helping to satisfy consumer demand for a healthy and nutritious lifestyle. Soya is low in saturated fat and is one of the main plant sources of the essential fatty acids Omega-3 and 6,...
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Kellogg's leads pack in cereal/health bar offers
Weetabix's Alpen Groove Bars shared fourth place last weekend in the combined top five chart for cereals and cereal/health bars with 5% of activity. The only other cereal bar on featured space offer last weekend was McVitie's Go Ahead! Yoghurt...
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insight - Milk consumers
Milk benefits from health drive Milk is seen by parents as an important part of a healthy diet for children but the decline in milk consumption in this group shows just how vulnerable the dairy industry is to the Nutrient Profiling Model developed...
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Wiseman hike fails to see off rebellion...
Robert Wiseman Dairies has sought to calm an increasingly restless membership by stating its intention to pay 25.5ppl from November. But its move failed to placate 19 Wiseman producers in south west Scotland who resigned over the insufficient...
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...as milk shortage looms this winter
Winter milk supplies will crash to well below one billion litres during the trough if current supply profiles continue, leading to more shortages of dairy products. Production in July was 1098 million litres, compared with 1,155 million litres last...
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Milk supply rides out foot and mouth crisis
Foot and mouth disease has brought minimal disruption to the dairy sector to date, only affecting biosecurity costs and disruption of niche non-EU exports. Virtually all milk was being collected, said Jim Begg, director general of Dairy UK, while EU...
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FSA highlights confusion over 1% milk
EU regulations introduced nearly 10 years ago about the use of 1% milk is still causing confusion, according to the Food Standards Agency. The Drinking Milk Regulations (1998) state that milk must fall within fat-content bands for whole (above 2%),...
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Better ranging 'would boost sales to £10bn'
Consumer spending on dairy could rise £2.4bn to £10bn per year by 2012 if the industry focused more on what shoppers really wanted, according to new research from Dairy Crest. Its report, Dairy for Life, seen exclusively by The Grocer, says...
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UBUK pushes health values of key brands
UBUK has launched a three-pronged strategy to reinforce the wholesome credentials of some of the biggest hitters in its portfolio. New yoghurt and fruit variants of McVitie's Digestives hit the shelves next week. The company is also uniting Jaffa...
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Retail butter price lower than bulk
Volatility in the butter market means it is now cheaper for manufacturers to buy it in Tesco than from a wholesaler. Bulk butter spot rates have soared by more than 60% already this year to about £2,500 per tonne or more. But packet butter is still...