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Dairy Crest stands firm on Cheddar promotions
A defiant Dairy Crest has vowed to continue with its aggressive marketing strategy for Cathedral City and said it would 'not be out-promoted by anybody', despite other Cheddar brands warning the category needed to rethink its approach to...
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Arla seeds Lurpak with free herbs
Arla Foods is launching its biggest-ever on-pack promotion for Lurpak, offering 'Grow your own herbs' kits on special promotional packs of its reduced-salt and reduced-fat butters.The campaign, which kicks off on Monday, will see free...
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Focus On Crisps, Nuts & Snacks: Flavours finding favour
When Golden Wonder launched cheese & onion crisps 49 years ago, it could not have envisaged how massive and varied the sector would be half a century later.
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WWF inducts Alpro into Climate Savers
Alpro has become the first European food manufacturer to be granted entry to WWF's Climate Savers programme.The soya product supplier joins a list of companies including Coca-Cola Enterprises and Supervalu, who the WWF believes are...
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D’Acampo lunchbox push for Cheestrings
Kerry Foods will encourage mums to "reappraise" Cheestrings as a healthy lunchbox snack for kids by teaming up with TV chef Gino D'Acampo for a new campaign.Gino's Good Food Fight is backed by a £500k budget and will be run in...
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NewsGreggs goes healthy with salads and pasta pots
Greggs will debut a new line of healthy food options for shoppers by June to appeal to a wider audience. The new range, which has yet to be named, will comprise salad with French dressing, a tropical fruit mix, pasta and yoghurt pots alongside its current product portfolio.
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Comment & Opinion
Hard cheese, Jay's jibes and Linda Lusardi
Yesterday The Grocer held its 2011 Own Label Food & Drink Awards, sponsored by PLMA and Cambridge Market Research.
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NewsNew stars unveiled for Make Mine Milk
The Make Mine Milk campaign has unveiled the latest celebrities to sport a milk moustache, with actors Ryan Reynolds and Rupert Grint fronting this spring's activity. Reynolds, whose film Green Lantern opens in the UK this summer, is...
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News‘The home of Stilton’ gets crushed by the recession
One of the UK's oldest producers of Stilton has gone into administration after being hit by cashflow problems in the economic downturn. Quenby Hall Dairy, which lays claim to being 'the home of Stilton', is one of only six producers to be...
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NewsDefinitely Devon...but from Cornwall
Robert Wiseman Dairies has been criticised by Devon farmers for moving production of its Definitely Devon clotted cream to Scorrier in Cornwall. Production shifted to Cornish company Rodda's which has bought the brand and is in the...
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Hogg gets sales and marketing job at Denhay
Richard Hogg is the new sales and marketing director for Denhay Farms. He has more than 25 years' experience in sales and marketing, working for companies including Milk Link, Duchy Originals, Sainsbury's, Tate & Lyle and Dairy Crest....
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NewsKooks plans growth with mum appeal
The creators of new baked vegetable snack Kooks are hoping the product will prove a hit with kids and their mums. The cheese-flavoured corn puff-style snack, which contains rice and eight vegetables, and no artificial colours or…
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NewsCollier’s takes to Twitter after Sainsbury’s axing
Collier's Powerful Welsh Cheddar hopes to mobilise shoppers to lobby more supermarkets into stocking the brand following its delisting by Sainsbury's last month. The Fayrefield Foods brand is using Facebook and Twitter to get consumers to...
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NewsFormer Gü directors to launch posh yoghurts
Two former directors of Gü Chocolate Puds are preparing to launch gourmet New Zealand yoghurt brand The Collective in the UK. Mike Hodgson and Amelia Macleod ex-Gü MD and sales director respectively have formed a joint venture company,...
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News‘Low-fat Cheddar’ label gets green light from EU
Cheddar makers will soon be able to call their low-fat cheeses 'low-fat Cheddar' as a result of new cheese-labelling rules coming in. Current UK laws on compositional standards for cheese mean cheese makers are not allowed to use the...
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NewsKerrygold launches Lighter block butter
Kerrygold has launched a lighter block butter in a bid to stem the flow of health-conscious consumers out of the category. Kerrygold Lighter Unsalted packet butter which contains 25% less fat than standard packet butter was a category...
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Focus On Soft Drinks: Flavoured milk not just the flavour of the week
Sales of flavoured milk drinks inched upwards last year, with value sales growing 0.2% and volume sales 4.4% [Kantar 52w/e 23 January 2011], leaving plenty of room for growth in a sub-category attractive to health-conscious consumers and, in particular, mothers.
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Higgidy open top savoury slices hit Boots
Premium pie maker Higgidy has unveiled its first savoury slices. The open-top puff-pastry slices, which can be eaten cold or heated, are available in pancetta, red onion & mature cheddar and spinach, pesto & goats cheese (rsp:…
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Focus On Own Label & PLMA Show Preview: Innovations
This limited-edition tart is one of 50 products being added to The Co-operative's premium Truly Irresistible range. Baked in puff pastry, the tart has a creamy cheese sauce, with pea shoot and mint pesto and a pancetta garnish.
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NewsHas the outlook soured for long-term dairy contracts?
Has the “innovative” Milk&More contract failed to stand the test of time thanks to high levels of cost inflation? Richard Ford and Julia Glotz report