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Long-life sales grow as credit crunch bites
Long-life milk has long been a poor relation of fresh, but suddenly its popularity is growing. Richard Ford reports
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DFB business plan ‘on target’ despite losses
Dairy Farmers of Britain insists it is on track to turn a profit by 2009 to 2010, despite recording a £3.55m loss in its latest results. Turnover in the year to 31 March was up 1% to £562m, as a result of higher milk prices. Though operating profit...
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Long Clawson buys Dairy Crest Stilton
Long Clawson Dairy is to buy Dairy Crest’s Stilton and speciality cheese business, including its Hartington Creamery, in a £3.5m deal that makes it the largest Stilton manufacturer in the country. The deal, which marks Dairy Crest’s exit from the...
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Tri-Bites to be revamped as Dairylea Bites
Dairylea Tri-bites is to be relaunched as Dairylea Bites this month. Brand owner Kraft is also increasing the Cheddar content of the triangle-shaped lunchbox cheeses in the revamp. Each £1.99 pack will contain 8 x 18g wrapped cheeses. The move is...
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Ben & Jerry’s says it’s a Caring Dairy
Ben and Jerry’s has added a ‘Caring Dairy’ logo to cartons across its European ice cream and frozen yoghurt ranges. The logo on the back of the carton, which is expected to debut in early September, is the latest ethical selling point for the brand...
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Are revised FSA reduction targets worth their salt?
Manufacturers warn of the risk of blandness, crumbling Cheddar and botulism. But is the whole premise suspect?
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Sales up as public gets taste for long-life milk
Sales up as public gets taste for long-life milk: Sales of long-life milk are staging a dramatic recovery on the back of improved branding and packaging. UHT milk sales have risen steadily this year, and are currently at their highest point since December 2006, according to DairyCo. In the 52 ...
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Asda pays First Milk 3ppl more
Asda pays First Milk 3ppl more: Asda has increased the amount it pays First Milk for cheese by £300 per tonne. The supermarket said the 3ppl increase reflected farmers’ increased costs and would help ensure producers continued to make cheese. “In the current market, it is...
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Dairy bodies link up to boost profile of cheese
Dairy bodies link up to boost profile of cheese: Dairy UK and the British Cheese Board are to pool resources in a bid to unify and strengthen the voice of UK cheese suppliers. The decision to work more closely together, announced at the Nantwich Cheese Show this week, will allow ...
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Skimmed ‘as effective as sports drink’
Skimmed ‘as effective as sports drink’: People can recover just as quickly from sporting activities by drinking skimmed milk as they can sports drinks, a study has claimed. Milk was very good at rehydrating the body, said the study in the European Journal of Applied Physiology. The...
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Seriously offers a Smokey Cheddar
A new smoked Cheddar variation has been added to Lactalis McLelland’s Seriously range. The Seriously Smokey cheese is smoked for four hours over wood from old whisky barrels at the family-owned Rannoch Smokery in Perthshire, the company...
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School Milk Scheme to include more products
The EU has extended the Continent-wide School Milk Scheme to include a wider range of dairy products and a wider age group. Cheese and yoghurt will now be part of the scheme, as will buttermilk and other fermented milk products. Previously only milk...
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Frico updates Edam design
Friesland Foods has repackaged its entire Frico brand cheese range. The Dutch company, which supplies 90% of Edam sold in the UK, said the new packaging emphasised the “heritage and unique craftsmanship” of Dutch cheese. “We have invested heavily in...
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Supermarkets deny milking rising costs
Supermarkets have denied profiteering from a period of unprecedented food inflation despite passing on £200m more to consumers in price increases since 2005 than they inherited from suppliers. A new study, published exclusively in The...
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What ever happened to... St Ivel Gold?
Dairy Crest axed St Ivel Gold this year following declining sales as shoppers switched to butter spreads.
The dairy giant, which has brands including Utterly Butterly, Clover and Country Life, said it stopped manufacturing the range from… -
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Functional & wellbeing
Unilever started its crusade to turn around the fortune of functional products at the beginning of this year when it pumped £15m into a marketing campaign for its Flora Pro-activ brand. The push was designed to tackle consumer confusion...
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Research Notes
Shoppers spent £952.7m on butters and spreads last year - a 10.5% increase over the year before. Rising shelf prices have driven this growth. To put it into context, while volume has remained fairly static year-on-year, sales were up just 0.7%...
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Milk and more: goats get in on the act with tasty alternatives
The market for goats milk products continues to grow, spearheaded by fresh milk, which was up 16.5%% last year to £21.5m [Nielsen]. Growth has traditionally been fuelled by consumers who are intolerant to cows milk. However, according to...
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'I can't believe it's not cheaper'
Afry-up costs 13% more than it did a year ago, according to an article in the Daily Mirror last week. But the paper left out one ingredient synonymous with breakfast - and it's the one that would, certainly for some brands, have topped the list...
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Spreadable
Spreadable butter seems able to do no wrong as it continues to tap into the hunger for natural yet convenient products. Almost all the big brands have launched spreadable versions in recent years followed by light, lighter, organic and unsalted...