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Dairy Crest snaps up Arla's Express arm
Dairy Crest reckons it has created the UK's biggest doorstep milk business with the acquisition of Arla's interests in the middle ground. It announced it had bought Arla's Express Dairies Depot operations for £33m this week, including two...
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FUW spells out pay 'scandal' to Blair
The Prime Minister could soon be £120 richer if a Welsh scheme to highlight the plight of dairy farmers pays off. The Farmers Union of Wales launched a campaign at the Royal Welsh Show this week encouraging visitors to send a specially...
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Maggi moves into breakfast pastries
Nestlé is propelling its Maggi Hot Pockets pastries into the breakfast market with a bacon & eggs variant. The new flavour will stretch the brand, which has so far targeted meal and snacking occasions with ham & cheese, cheese & tomato...
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Cheese with probiotics
A probiotic cheese that has the added benefit of being half-fat will be in Tesco at the end of next month. The mature Cheddar is the result of 12 months' development by Somerset-based Cricketer Farm and has been created to provide...
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Grocery inquiry: take the ten-minute test
Your rival has cut the price of milk by 1p a pint. Do you:A Match his price cut;B Do nothing, in the belief your customers will remain loyal; C Cut the price of your milk by 2p a pint, then phone up your milk...
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Duchy Originals set to add 50 new products
Duchy Originals, the organic brand with royal connections, is planning to expand its portfolio by up to 50 new products in the coming year, including the new territories of yoghurt, cream and butter. The company, established by HRH the...
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Anchor suspension threatens Arla trade
British shoppers should still be able to buy Anchor butters and spreads despite the European Commission's decision to suspend imports of the brand in a row over licences.A spokesman for EU agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel...
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Fresh produce gains boost in latest study
Britons are choosing fresh fruit and yoghurt over traditional English puddings in their weekly shopping basket, according to latest research from YouGov.The study of 6,500 people, which was commissioned by Sainsbury to assess what...
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Champions for a cause
In a repeat of last year's Primula Cup five-a-side football final in aid of the industry's welfare charity Caravan, the team from Greencore Grocery found itself up against Buckingham Foods. Only this time it was Buckingham's second team that got...
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Country Life looks for organic milk growth
Country Life will become the first major brand to enter the organic milk category when it launches into Tesco next month.The butter brand is making its milk debut to take advantage of what brand owner Dairy Crest describes as the fastest...
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Milk supply back at 'more normal levels'
UK dairy farmers have posted a third lacklustre month of milk production in a row after a slow start in April, reigniting debate over the scale of the exodus from the industry. Output in the first three months of the 2006/07 quota year...
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Butlers Blue is up to the Challenge
Family-owned dairy Butlers saw its new product go all the way in this year's Tesco Cheese Challenge. Now in its fourth year, the competition brought together cheese industry experts in London where they picked out Butlers Blue as their...
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Brands spread butter offers across retailers
This week's Promotrack focuses on the butters/spreads and cheese sub-categories in line with the Focus on Butters & Spreads. Of the featured space promotional activity recorded over the past 12 weeks, promotions were captured...
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Country Life ad sticks knife into rival Anchor
Dairy Crest is spreading controversy in the butter sector, with a print ad for its Country Life brand that contrasts the food miles of a rival with its own British provenance. The ad sticks the knife into Anchor butter - the number two...
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Butter Spreadables up, block sales slide
Butter was something of a dirty word a few years ago. As consumers were encouraged to follow low-fat diets, yellow slabs of butter were viewed by many as at best an indulgence and at worst a short cut to ill health.But with TV chefs...
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Butter Spreadables up, block sales slide
Butter was something of a dirty word a few years ago. As consumers were encouraged to follow low-fat diets, yellow slabs of butter were viewed by many as at best an indulgence and at worst a short cut to ill health.But with TV chefs...
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Dale Farm heads for a swell time
Dairy processor Dale Farm GB has revealed further details of expansion plans for Scotland and England as it focuses on raising its profile outside its Belfast HQ. The company is also on the acquisition trail in England in order to improve...
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Egg majors merge to generate efficiencies
Egg producers Deans Foods and Stonegate unveiled plans to merge this week, forming the biggest egg supplier in the UK with half of the market. A major swing in demand towards free-range and organic eggs is said to have fuelled the drive...