All Dairy articles – Page 233
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NFU blasts Asda and Arla over milk cuts
The NFU has blasted the latest milk price cut by Arla Foods UK as "penal". But it is equally pointing the finger at Asda for triggering cuts in the supply chain in March that "put the future of the dairy industry at risk." Arla Foods UK...
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Müller aims for bigger share of kids' sector
Müller, the dominant player in the adult yoghurt market, has created a new range to challenge Yoplait Dairy Crest's Petits Filous brand for a bigger share of the children's sector. Launching next month, the sub-brand - called Little Stars...
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Six of the Best - Functional Foods
Functional foods extend across many different supermarket fixtures, so in this arena milk, snacks, fresh foods and chilled drinks buyers were up against each other.Despite the diversity of products, there was homogeneity in the...
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Whole milk 'is not junk'
Producer body Dairy UK has questioned the government's decision to restrict school milk to skim and semi-skimmed. Some in the dairy industry are outraged that whole milk is being put in the same box as junk food. Jim Paice,...
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A Dr who travels in retail space
Peter Franks wants to run a £200m business by 2011. Siân Harrington hears about his plan to make it big in frozen, ambient and chilled. There's not much to connect Peter Franks and David Tennant - no sidekick in the form of...
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Plea for co-ops to be freed up to compete
Britain's farming co-operatives need to be freed from the constraints of competition law to enable them to raise their game and become class acts like their counterparts abroad, according to a report from First Milk. The...
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Ice-cream Frubes back for summer
Yoplait Dairy Crest (YDC) is reintroducing its ice-cream-style limited edition flavours to its Frubes fromage frais tubes range in anticipation of a hot summer. Three limited edition flavours, Vanilla Scoop, Banana Blast and...
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Friendly bacteria gives ActiMint healthy start
Consumers looking for a simple way of topping up their healthy bacteria don't need to reach for the fridge for a probiotic yoghurt drink any longer - all they have to do is take a mint. Ecobrands reckons that just two of its...
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"What could have happened to bread prices? Did ABF buy up a job lot of wheat in the futures market in 2007 BC?"
We all know the price of commodity-based products has gone up. Bread, pasta, milk, cheese: on telly, in the papers and in this magazine, there has been only one direction to this story: up, up, up. Official figures out this week showed...
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"Asda's price for a single four-pint carton of milk was up to £1.34. That's a 34% increase on its controversial twofer"
I've been reading stories suggesting 'The End of Cheap Food' since, ooh, April, possibly earlier. Drought, floods, China, India, biofuel, all these and more were cited as reasons why wheat, milk, butter meat and other commodities were set to...
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Healthy innovation at the heart of Kraft
The maker of Philadelphia is looking to fortify rather than launch new product variants. Rachel Barnes reportsFor a company that was founded on the mass production of one of the foods in our diets with the highest fat content, it...
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Primula goes in for a nibble
Primula is nibbling away at the impulse market by bringing out new portable snacking products.Primula Cheese Nibbles snack combines a mini tube of the cheese spread with cream crackers and a pot of pickle, at an rsp of £1.39 for...
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Lancashire cheese joins probiotics fray
Probiotics, a food arena dominated by yoghurt drinks, now has a cheese component in the form of a hard Lancashire cheese from Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses.Made with pasteurised milk, Butlers Probiotic contains Lactobacillus...
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Processors and supermarkets say milk price-fixing allegations are unfounded
Industry efforts to increase milk prices were thrust into the spotlight this week after the Office of Fair Trading accused dairy processors and supermarkets of operating a cartel.On Thursday, the OFT gave notice of a proposed...
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Smith takes up the Müller sales reins
Müller Dairy has a new sales director for its UK operation, replacing David Potts who has left after 17 years.Colin Smith, who starts on 20 November, joins from InBev where he has been director of sales for retail grocers since January...
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Puriti takes pure milk to a whole new level
Robert Wiseman Dairies is set to increase its branded milk presence in the summer, with the launch of an extended shelf life product called Puriti.The newcomer builds on the company's experience of creating an exclusive own label Pure...
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Multiples' milk war stifles Cravendale
Sales of a highly successful premium milk brand have been damaged by the multiples' price spat in milk.The UK's biggest dairy processor claims that the price war that was kicked off by Asda in March has undermined sales growth of...
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Dr Oetker gives BioPot a life-saving injection
German food giant Dr Oetker is seeking to halt the decline of yoghurt and mousse brand Onken with the first major activity for BioPot in five years. BioPot is returning to TV screens next month following the completion of Onken Dairy...
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Puriti takes pure milk to a whole new level
Robert Wiseman Dairies is set to increase its branded milk presence in the summer, with the launch of an extended shelf life product called Puriti.The newcomer builds on the company's experience of creating an exclusive own label...