All Dairy articles – Page 284
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Milk gets a grip on lunchboxes
The National Dairy Council launched funky new milk packaging this week ready for further forays into the burgeoning lunchbox and out of home market. Designed to appeal to children and teenagers, the 250ml blue plastic screw top bottle has...
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The Grocer focus on the dairymen: Arla
Milking the market for all it's worth Arla's most famous inherited brand has to be Lurpak. The spreadable variant has brought a growing number of younger consumers back from margarine to the dairy fixture, according to business unit controller...
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Unilever gets EU green light for low cost rival to Benecol
Unilever's cholesterol lowering spread Flora Pro-activ is poised to go head to head with Benecol in the flourishing functional food market, following EU authorisation. The spread is made with natural plant sterols plant extracts found at low...
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The Grocer focus on the dairymen: cheese
CHEESE: GREAT CHEDDAR GORGE Will price cutting in a mature market spoil attempts to grow the premium cheese sector? asks Peter Crosskey Say cheese and the UK consumer thinks of Cheddar. Number one in the £1.27billion UK retail cheese market,...
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The Grocer focus on the dairymen: cheese
TAKING OFF THE WRAPS: BIG IDEAS FOR LITTLE CHEESES Processed cheeses own the second largest share of the UK market, according to the British Cheese Board, which represents 32 speciality cheesemakers. At 51,000t, it's a significant and growing...
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The Grocer focus on the dairymen: YELLOW FATS : THE GOLDEN P
The growth of dairy spreads is churning up the butter market and creating openings for retailers. Peter Crosskey separates the issues After years of self-denial, consumers are beginning to realise that a little of what you fancy does you good ...
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The Grocer focus on the dairymen: milk
Milk: heroic ads lead a liquid sales revival How much is the generic advertising campaign for milk likely to achieve? Can the image of milk as "uncool" and even invisible be overcome? Let's be grown up about this, says Peter Crosskey Watch out,...
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The Grocer focus on the dairymen: organics
Organics: pure but not so simple The UK organic milk pool is falling short of demand, while in England output is booming says Peter Crosskey The popularity of milk products is growing rapidly within the booming organic sector which dairy...
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The Grocer focus on the dairymen: Yellow fats
IT'S SHOPPING BY COLOURS Independent research carried out by Dairy Crest for the Clover brand, suggests that yellow fats are in 99% of UK households. Richard Tolley, senior marketing controller, said they had identified three types of consumer:...
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Intervention: UK stores are open again
Intervention has re-opened in the UK for butter. Declared prices for June 3 and June 10 fell to £180.70 and £177.27 per 100kg respectively for salted butter. Unsalted declared prices were £178.92 and £178.24 per 100kg for the same dates, while the...
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It's big however you measure it
Sir; Your Focus on Lunchbox Takeaways (May 13) provided food for thought, as always. My particular interest is in cheese snacks and I was intrigued by the way this category had been segmented and measured. Clearly, there are two ways of looking at...
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The Morrisons are identical twins with the same pricing down
After last week's out of stock débâcle, thankfully only two stores failed to provide full baskets this week. Tesco, Roborough, had no Home Fries or milk, while chicken and Jacob's Creek wine was missing from Somerfield, Alton. Our shopper at Asda,...
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Raw milk: Slow start for deliveries
This year has seen a slow start in milk deliveries to dairies. Provisional MAFF figures show a year on year drop of availability of nearly 40 million litres in January and nearly 30 million litres in February. This has been affecting both butter...
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Laughing and running
The Laughing Cow is running an on pack cinema promotion to coincide with the new Chicken Run movie the latest film from the producers of Wallace and Gromit. Consumers can collect six tokens from standard The Laughing Cow cheese portions (eight...
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The Grocer Focus on Northern Ireland
Dairy: Catch 22 revenue scenario Northern Ireland's dairy companies are being bruised by a strong pound and squeezed by the mainland multiples says Richard Wright Despite low milk prices times are tough for dairy processors in Northern Ireland....
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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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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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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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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...