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Price Basket - Price of cheese is rising steadily
Dairy prices have reached a three-year high, and the cost of cheese is climbing steadily. Pre-packed Blue Stilton is now 41.2% more expensive than a year ago, and is at its highest price since March 2005. The basket is now 18.7% more expensive than...
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Dairy farming 'on brink of collapse'
UK dairy farming is “on the brink of collapse” and a new formula to calculate a consistently fair price for milk should be introduced, according to Peter Humphreys, CEO of First Milk.His warning follow a report by the dairy company which...
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Organic milk gets Zen theme for online push
Organic milk groups have launched a tongue-in-cheek internet campaign based on Eastern spirituality to boost long-term sales of organic milk as new figures reveal its surge in popularity is tailing off.The Love-om campaign, which will be...
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Babybel flags up its natural credentials
Bel UK is investing millions of pounds in a new TV ad for its Mini Babybel brand and the launch of a grated Leerdammer.The ad, which breaks on 10 March and kicks off a £3m spend for Mini Babybel this year, will highlight the fact that it...
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Sales up at Kerry Group
Kerry Group - the Irish food company behind Wall's sausages, Mattessons and Cheestrings - has reported a 35% increase in full-year pre-tax profit to E298m (£224m) on sales up 6.7% at E4.8bn (£3.6bn).Its brands outperformed market growth...
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insight - tuna
AGE PROFILE of canned tuna consumers Children 0-1014% 11-169% Male 17-3412% 35-6418% 65+4% Female 17-3415% 35-6421% 65+7% Info: Usage overview of canned tuna. Year ending August 2007. In-home/lunchbox consumption Canned tuna was eaten on 731 million...
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Lactalis puts hands up over price fixing
Lactalis McLelland has admitted its involvement in the dairy price-fixing scandal and will pay a fine.The Scottish cheese producer conceded that A McLelland and Son had been involved in alleged anti-competitive practice related to retail...
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Tesco issues warning over price fix inquiry
Tesco has warned that the inquiry into the alleged fixing of dairy prices may put retailers off helping farmers in future.Tesco has continued to protest its innocence to the Office of Fair Trading , but the consequences of the...
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Let model flag up positives, dairy industry urges the EU
Dairy companies believe the European Food Safety Authority will tell Brussels to exclude milk-based products from any nutrient profiling system underpinning the European Health Claims Regulation - or suggest different models for different...
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Welford at helm of Somerfield buying
Somerfield has promoted Guy Welford to head of buying in the convenience chilled category. Welford has been buyer for in-store bakery, pre-packed cheese, butters, spreads & margarines, but his most recent role was as buyer for milk,...
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Direct delivery boosts Localchoice milk sales
Tesco is rolling out its Direct to Store local milk sourcing initiative nationwide after a trial significantly boosted sales of its Localchoice milk brand.The sourcing trial led to a three-fold increase in sales of Localchoice in the 10...
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Unilever brands muscle in on own label territory
Unilever is launching three of its key brands, Bertolli, Knorr and Colman's, into chilled ready meals in an attempt to leverage their brand equity in the own label-dominated category.The nine-strong range, which will be backed with a £1m...
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Yoplait targets parents with £6m calcium push
Yoplait Dairy Crest has unveiled ambitious plans to grow the overall kids' chilled yoghurts and desserts sector by £50m over the next three years.Next month it kicks off a £6m multimedia advertising campaign - Calcium Every Day, The Easy...
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In Th Can - Sunflower oil price twice level of last year
Sunflower oil price twice level of last year In common with all oil prices, sunflower oil used in sardine production...
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Milk merger collapse sparks dismay at 'lost opportunity'
The proposed merger between dairy co-ops Milk Link and First Milk collapsed this week after the two parties failed to agree on a valuation for the businesses.The merger would have created a business with a turnover in excess of £1bn that...
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acid test - Welsh Rarebit
Expert's verdict... 4/10 ?The product looks like it was made on a local farm, which would be fine if it was to be sold in a village shop, but not in a supermarket. It was hard to understand the content and how to eat the cheese as there was so...
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Milk merger collapses
The £1bn merger between Milk Link and First Milk has collapsed because the parties failed to agree on a valuation for the businesses.But following a due diligence process that has been carried out since last October, the two companies...
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Dairy Crest restarts Clover promotions
Dairy Crest will launch a TV ad campaign to promote Clover butter as the brand aims to recover from a contamination crisis last year. Two million Clover tubs were recalled last May when mould was found in the products. The company blamed...
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Consumers pick local produce over organic
Regionally produced dairy products are now more popular than organic among shoppers, new research by farmer co-operative First Milk has indicated. Many consumers are unsure of the true meaning of organic, while the 'local' message was one...