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Tesco to double Scottish cheese levels
Tesco is preparing to increase its Scottish cheese orders by more than double the existing level. The retailer said it would be taking nearly 8,000 tonnes a year from McLelland of Glasgow, which will push the supplier's share of Tesco's UK...
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Challenging Number One
Action has been hotting up in the £1.3bn chilled yogurt and desserts market in the last few months, and not just in product innovation. Some well-established brands have been changing hands, with Nestle acquiring Ski and Munch Bunch from Northern...
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Top Ten Butter Brands
1 Lurpak Spreadable Butter2 Flora Pro-activ Light Spread 3 Flora Light Spread 4 Clover Std Dairy Spread 5 Anchor Butter 6 St Ivel Utterly Butterly D/Sp 7 Olivio 8 ...
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A case of the blues...which means NPD, and hands on fun
But retailer behaviour is also crucial. Glanbia supplies to most of the major multiples in the UK, including Asda, Safeway, Somerfield, Kwik Save, Iceland, Sainsbury and Marks & Spencer. Development work at its groundbreaking Malpas Centre of Cheese...
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Driving big brand value...and keeping up with the pace inNPD
In the last year it recorded double digit growth for its hugely popular Cathedral City and Davidstow cheeses, top-selling dairy spread Clover and its Frijj and Yoplait drinks. Cathedral City, in particular, has seen sales double in the last five...
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Flavour of the alternative
Anew set of players is muscling in on the dairy sector but there's not a drop of milk involved. Dairy alternative producers, making everything from substitute milk to butter-style spreads and ice cream, are making healthy returns on growing sales...
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Butter flies high again
After years of slow decline, it looks as though butter is biting back. The joint venture between the manufacturers of the two leading brands, Lurpack and Anchor, and the popularity of spreadable butters among consumers, have increased hope that...
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dairies take 3.4% more milk
UK milk deliveries to dairies showed a 3.4% increase during the first half of this year according to the latest analysis from DEFRA. Exports of milk for processing to dairies outside the UK recovered by 30% after last year's FMD difficulties. ...
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n JS builds links
Sainsbury is forging stronger links with the dairy industry. The retailer has founded the Sainsbury's Dairy Communications Forum involving Express Dairies, Express Milk Partnership and other farmers' and consultative groups. As part of the...
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Anchor pulls a cheddar that failed to function
Mary Carmichael Arla has pulled the plug on Anchor Inner Balance bio cheddar, admitting that its attempt to bring functional properties to the UK cheese market has bombed. Launched a year ago by New Zealand Milk before a joint venture with...
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Unlocking Nesquik's potential
Rod Addy Nestlé ©s restructuring its impulse drinks division in preparation for an assault on the children's market through its Nesquik brand. Carl Davies has become customer and channel strategy lead, impulse drinks retail sales. Davies...
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TV cereal boost to Soya Chilled's profile
Alpro is stepping up activity in the dairy-free sector by putting its Soya Chilled product on TV for the first time. The four-week small screen campaign, which accounts for the bulk of a £2m spending spree, aims to heighten the brand's profile...
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Amelca calls in receivers
Farmer owned dairy processor Amelca has called in the receivers three months after it opened for business at a state-of-the-art dairy in Dove Valley, Derbyshire. The 200m litre milk and cheese processing plant was opened by DEFRA secretary of...
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UK MILK PRICES FALL BUT OUTPUT STABLE
Provisional estimates of UK milk deliveries in June by the Rural Payments Agency indicate that output has stabilised in June and July after rising by over 6% on average in April and May. June deliveries fell compared with May by over 10% and...
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Express tipped for Scots exit
Analysts say it's only a matter of time before Express Dairies pulls out of Scotland completely following the OFT's decision to close its inquiry into Robert Wiseman's dominant position in the Scottish middle ground milk market. The decision was...
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Milk crisis on way as price fallsAverage milk prices for
And farmers' milk prices have continued to drop in July and August. The June returns to dairy farmers were below the level of two years ago. At that time low prices caused widespread protests from farmers and a severe cut in winter milk...
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Katherine Lilley has been running her Dedham Gourmet shop fo
She bought the shop, in Colchester, Essex, from a friend as soon as she left university. The oak-beamed store is in a prosperous high street. Bestsellers are cheese, teas, olives and farmers' honey. "We have been local sourcing for years and...
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Mimolette taking off
It's a new cheese on the UK scene but is rapidly carving a reputation for itself among lovers of sophisticated fare. Isigny-Sainte-Mère is the principal importer of mature Mimolette, launched in the UK a year ago and available in Sainsbury. It...
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Wensleydale is the supreme champion
Wensleydale Creamery's traditional Cheshire cheese won the NatWest Cup for the supreme champion cheese at the Nantwich International Cheese Show this week. Wensleydale Creamery md David Hartley said: "The company produces other regional cheeses...
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Lunchables get chicken burger variation
Kraft Foods is adding a Chicken Burger variant to its Dairylea Lunchables range and backing it with £2m of marketing support. The new arrival, which hits shelves next week, consists of two mini bread rolls, two chicken burgers, Dairylea slices and...