All Dairy articles – Page 279
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In the city: Who is likely to come out on top in the fight f
dairy and cheese businesses? A good old fashioned bidding war broke out over Easter, with rivals fighting for Unigate's St Ivel dairy and cheese businesses. The tension rose throughout the long weekend after Robert Wiseman Dairies and Dairy Crest...
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Dairy: Cheddar supply feels the pinch
Market forces are restricting the supply of UK Cheddar which could lead to higher prices. Consultant Michael Bessey said: "Milk output in the UK was severely depressed from December. The shortfall over levels a year earlier reached a peak of 7% in...
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Quota slump
Milk quota prices have dropped through the 20ppl while leased quota is trading at 4ppl. This is about a third of the average price that would have been paid for it in April 1997. Raw milk was trading at over 23ppl at that time. The drop in quota...
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Dairy: Making a return?
There are growing signs in the UK and Irish Republic that large corporate concerns are increasingly uncomfortable with the margins they can make on commodity products like butter, cheese and skimmed milk powder. Look across the Irish Sea, where...
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Milk: Big spend backs a whole new You
Sainsbury's rebranded home shopping service is just the first in a series of "building blocks" the company will lay in the next few months to boost its e-commerce activity. The development of Sainsbury's to You, launched last week, took part of the...
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Flotation for St Ivel's cows
St Ivel aims to harness interest in health oriented eating with a £5m TV campaign for its Gold brand. The new campaign aims to build on Gold's relaunch in September last year which focused on semi-skimmed milk as a key ingredient. The new ads,...
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The Grocer guide to brokerage:
Land of milk and money IDC Ltd (Independent Dairy Consortium Ltd) Unit 14, Bridgegate Business Centre Gatehouse Way, Aylesbury Bucks HP19 8XW Tel: 01296 488997 Fax: 01296 488268 E-mail: info@idcltd.com Website: www.idcltd.com Key...
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Cheese: Rowcliffe blasts low price mania
Tim Rowcliffe, incoming chairman of the Specialist Cheesemakers' Association, has launched a broadside at supermarkets for concentrating on price at the expense of quality. "For too long the British have been subjected to bland, mass produced cheap...
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Organic gold
Sales are romping away for organic chilled pot desserts. Yeo Valley Organic claims organic yogurt grew 73% last year, a performance outstripped by its own 100% growth. Soaring consumer demand has led to a spate of innovations. Yeo Valley Organic...
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Felix Milk
My owner was so astounded by the price of Felix milk 59p for 200ml (the equivalent of £2.95 a litre) that she was tempted first of all to keep it for herself and put it in her tea. "It's outrageous, it's more than 10 times the price per ...
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Graham Norton comes out with a long tube in his hand
Comedian Graham Norton stars in a £4m advertising campaign for McVitie's Tubes. Breaking on April 6 and running until June 24, the theme of the campaign (which features Jaffa Cake tubes and Milk Chocolate Digestive tubes) is to encourage people to...
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ANOTHER GERMAN YOGURT GIANT
Following in Müller's footsteps, another German yogurt giant has its sights set on the UK market. Erhmann, Germany's largest fruit yogurt brand [18% share/ACNielsen], has set up a sales and distribution operation in the UK through the Wright...
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Farmers tell JS what milk costs
Milk producers this week convened a top level meeting with Sainsbury management to explain the crisis the dairy industry faces. "Sainsbury can be in no doubt that, the way things are at present, they and other major retailers risk losing their...
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Dairy Crest marketing chief joins Duchy Originals as md
The Prince of Wales' food brand Duchy Originals has appointed Belinda Gooding as its new managing director. She takes up the post in June. Currently the group marketing director at Dairy Crest, Gooding has worked on the launch of its organic cheese...
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New chocolate bars get into ring
Booker and Comic Relief are taking on the big chocolate brands with the launch of their own (separate) chocolate countlines. Booker has entered the ring with four new own label impulse bars. Caramel Choc-Full is soft nougat, caramel and milk...
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Japanese say cheese
Who says it's nigh on impossible to sell strong tasting cheeses to Japan? Singleton's stand at this month's Foodex show in Tokyo was mobbed by Japanese buyers eager to taste the firm's traditional Stiltons and more unusual products such as...
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NFU hits out over low milk prices
This week the NFU launched its campaign to highlight low farmgate milk prices. Consumers have grown accustomed to cheap liquid milk in supermarkets and are unwilling to pay more. The producers are focusing on the differential between their claimed...
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Milk price fixing' issue
UK multiples say they could face the wrath of government competition officials if they step in to help British dairy farmers by fixing the price of milk. Safeway and Waitrose say they would keep their prices stable in the wake of a demonstration in...