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Cadbury switches to direct milk contracts
Cadbury has made a surprise move to recruit dairy farmers on direct contracts for its chocolate crumb factory in Leominster. A group of 70 producers in Gloucestershire and along the M4 corridor - known as the Selkley Vale Group -...
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Dairy Crest linked to Uniq
Dairy Crest could be interested in the French spreads business of chilled convenience foods group Uniq.Reports suggest that the dairy company participated in the first round of bidding for the Uniq subsidiary which owns the St Hubert butter...
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Singapore bottled beer heads for UK
A bottled beer from Singapore has joined Pierhead Purchasing's global imported beer portfolio to target the UK off-trade. The 4.5% abv Anchor Smooth, from Singapore's Archipelago Brewery, was first created more than 70 years ago. The...
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"Today's commercials feature Feta cheese and jingles about Omega-3. That's got to be a good thing, hasn't it?
A baptism of fire. That's one way to describe my first week on The Grocer. On GMTV (twice actually) to talk about Tesco's results. Meeting and greeting at the Gramias on Wednesday night, while celebrating the best in food and drinks...
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Smoothies war hotting up in the freezer aisles
Taking on the likes of Innocent and PJs, King Parrot Foods has put smoothies in the freezer aisle. The new company has come up with an original concept - a single pouch ?of individually quick-frozen (IQF) fruit, low-fat yoghurt and...
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OMSCo reined in by boom and bust fears
Britain's biggest organic milk supplier will be closing the door to new producers as early as January, it says. Richard Hampton, chief executive of the OMSCo co-operative, said that there was a risk of returning to the cycle of boom and...
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Price Basket
The price of our basket of dairy items recorded its biggest rise since the survey began on 4 January, 2005. It is now 7.2% more expensive than ten weeks ago, following its third consecutive rise, returning to roughly the same level as it...
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Milk Marque gets into health foods
Milk Marque's 12,000 British farmer shareholders are the new owners of a health food company selling dried fruit, nuts and seeds. Community Foods was purchased this week by Milk Marque, the shell of the former dairy co-operative that...
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Research Notes
Continental cheese (excluding blue cheese) is one of the poorest-performing sectors in the cheese category. It is worth £229m and is declining at 1.0%. The strongest sectors: territorials (excluding blue), mini portions and British blue are...
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Trends & Developments
?Duchy Originals is expanding its portfolio by up to 50 new products in the coming year, including yoghurt, cream and butter. The company has already unveiled additions to its Christmas range, which includes fresh organic sauces - cranberry with...
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First Milk delivers on Dairy Crest purchase
First Milk has bought Dairy Crest's own-label cheese business for nearly £62m. Analysts broadly supported the move but farmers fear it will force them to accept a lower milk price and are considering alternatives. Under the terms...
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Dairy Crest to sell cheese operations
Dairy Crest has announced plans to sell the majority of its retailer brand cheese operations to First Milk for £61.9m.The proposed sale, which is subject to approval from First Milk's members, includes the cheddar creameries at Haverfordwest...
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First Milk eyeing up Dairy Crest own label
Dairy Crest has confirmed that it is in negotiations with First Milk regarding "the possible sale of part of its retailer brand cheese operations". The discussions are "ongoing", said the company, and "there can be no certainty that this will...
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Dairy UK 'has clout over the key issues'
On its second anniversary, Dairy UK has been hailed as an increasingly effective and respected organisation by chairman David Curry. The dairy industry body has confronted issues including salt, traffic-light labelling, child obesity and...
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Life, love... and chocolate
The most notable innovation in chocolate may have been a step into darkness?, but manufacturers are all too aware that they need to continue to make waves in milk chocolate - which is still far and away the biggest chocolate sector - if they are...
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Campaign trail: Werthers Original
Werthers Original Budget: £4m Manufacturer: Bendicks It was a case of out with the old and in with the new in the latest advert for butter candy Werthers Original, with the much-loved grandfather figure finally pensioned off. In...
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Let's work together for a vibrant UK dairy industry
Since the demise of the milk marketing boards, dairy supply chains have attempted to form sensible business relationships. Some have been more active and successful than others. Farmhouse cheese manufacturers by the nature of being dairy farmers...
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Milk bottles recycled till cows come home
We could soon be buying milk in bottles that are in their second or third incarnation, if plans to build a state-of-the-art recycling plant get the go-ahead.The factory would be capable of processing up to 13,000 tonnes of used HDPE...