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Campaign trail: Danone is making consumers' resolutions to drink Actimel every day easier to swallow by giving a month's free supply
Danone is making consumers' resolutions to drink Actimel every day easier to swallow by giving a month's free supply. Its new promotion, running on 10 million packs, tells them how 'A little every day goes a long, long way' and offers to...
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Layers added in bid to revive Müllerlight
Müller is hoping to boost sales of its struggling Müllerlight brand by adding a range of layered real fruit products to the low fat yoghurt portfolio. Müllerlight Layers, which consist of creamy-tasting yoghurt with a bottom layer of...
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Innovation
Gone are the days when vegetarian lasagne and macaroni cheese were the most exciting vegetarian products available on supermarket shelves. Manufacturers are now offering increasingly adventurous choices in the vegetarian sector to tempt both...
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Noble stands firm to downsizing threat
Egg giant Noble Foods has vowed to fight a ruling that could see it split up by the competition watchdog. Formed in the merger between Stonegate and Deans Foods on 23 June, Noble Foods has been under investigation by the Competition...
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Müller warns inquiry of supermarket power
Any further growth in the power of the big four supermarkets could harm consumers, Müller Dairy UK has told the Competition Commission. In a letter to the Commission's grocery inquiry team, the yoghurt manufacturer's supply chain...
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Protect the future of dairy farming
Urban consumers have long seen farmers as a bunch of over-subsidised whingers so the distressing arithmetic of the British dairy industry is largely lost on them. First there is the fact that 1,000 dairy farms are going bust each year...
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Asda puts Akkerman back in the running
Plans to build a giant commodity cheese plant in Cumbria look to be gaining pace following intervention by Asda. The Partners in Cheese project, lead by Dutch entrepreneur Ronald Akkerman, seemed to be foundering last month because dairy...
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Asda cheeky? You'd butter believe it
"What's the point of stocking both Utterly Butterly and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? It's only marge!"With an insouciant flourish, Asda's food trading director Darren Blackhurst explained his rationale for delisting similar products...
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The Grocer urges FSA to Weigh It Up!
Honey can no longer be advertised to children. Cheese is a definite no-no for kids and as for cornflakes, beware, you young ones - eating them will make you fat. Apparently.The Grocer launched its Weigh It Up! campaign in February,...
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Co-op withdraws crisps
The Co-op has withdrawn all batches of its own-label multi-pack crisps because the ready salted flavour contains casein which is not declared on the label.Casein is unsafe for people with a milk allergy or milk intolerance.The...
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Top Campaign: no grandad but still family values
The Werther's Original grandfather was finally pensioned off earlier this year but Bendicks stuck to using good old family values to promote its butter candy brand - with a modern twist. The £4m campaign this time centred on the close...
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Invoicing: stage two springs into action
Dairy industry leaders are braced for a Christmas of discontent, as milk price protests kick off. Farmers for Action boss David Handley has vowed to bring out the barricades next week unless processors make progress securing milk price...
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Glenrath ramps up free-range capacity
A Scottish egg producer has picked up the gauntlet thrown down by Somerfield and Morrisons' move to import free-range eggs. Peeblesshire-based Glenrath Farms has submitted plans to invest £8m in enough free-range birds and sheds to...
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Price Basket
The price of our basket of dairy items recorded its first fall since March, down 0.6% compared to ten weeks ago, following three consecutive rises. It is now 2.1% more expensive than at this time last year, though it is 5.5% cheaper than when...
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Health lines that really milk it
Sales of dairy drinks have finally started to slow down after years of soaring growth. In the past year, the total category rose 6.5% to £328.2m, with growth driven predominantly by NPD in the kids' probiotic sector and strong...
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Star Product
Cow's milk is not the usual drink of choice for those consumers suffering from lactose intolerance, but thanks to innovation from Arla Foods in the form of Lactofree, now it can be. The product, hailed as the UK's first lactose-free dairy drink...
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Buyer's View
Health drinks with added benefits are driving the market and the sector is in massive growth. We list a comprehensive range but the star performers are Benecol, Flora Omega-3 and Müller Vitality. Although Yakult was one of the original...
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The diminished fat of the land
The yellow fats market is up just 1.6% to £895.7m. It's a slower rate than last year and several factors played a part. These include traditional butter's shelf space being grabbed by other dairy lines such as functional drinks, the hot summer...
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It's better for you - by half
Cheese continues to be a popular nibble for UK consumers. The category has shown strong growth, up 3.6% to nearly £2bn. However, there is still plenty of room for improvement because, as a nation, we still don't get through as much cheese...