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Pilgrims takes a bite at snacks
Pilgrims Choice is set to take a bite out of the convenience market with a range of cheese snacking products.Pilgrims Choice Minis, Pilgrims Choice Snack Pack and Pilgrims Choice Vintage Extra Mature in sliced and grated formats aim to...
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Onken appoints trio to drive growth
Onken has announced plans for significant growth over the next three years and has appointed a new head of marketing, senior national account manager and senior category manager.Jackie Duff becomes head of marketing and will be responsible for...
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PiC bid to woo Cumbrian farmers
Partners in Cheese formally announced at a meeting with local farmers last week that it intends to raise money to build a new mild Cheddar factory in Cumbria. But it revealed few firm details about the venture.Apart from the £44m cost of the...
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Baileys adds choc cups
Baileys has undergone another extension – this time as Baileys & Chocolate Cups.The pack consists of a 50cl bottle of Baileys with six 25ml cups moulded from milk chocolate into which the liqueur can be poured (rsp: £9.99). The concept,...
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Morrisons ditches Wiseman
After weeks of speculation, Morrisons has confirmed that it will rationalise its liquid milk supply base.The multiple – the last of the big four to review its supply arrangements – will ditch Robert Wiseman Dairies and increase the amount of...
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Rivals fear new Cumbrian plant will undermine cheese prices
A proposed Cheddar plant could compromise efforts to increase the price of cheese.Partners in Cheese’s planned 400 million-litre Cumbrian plant is almost certain to destabilise the cheese sector because of its “added capacity, zero customer...
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Daily dose of virtuous dairy
Chilled yoghurts are coming into their own as convenient, healthy snacks. Household penetration of premium products has doubled in the past year, while virtually fat-free is also experiencing growth. Helen Gregory reportsYoghurts have...
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Research Notes
>>market grows 5.3% to £1.5bnThe UK chilled yoghurts and potted desserts market was valued at £1.5bn for the year ending January 30, 2005, growing in value by 5.3%, above total packaged grocery growth of 3%. More than 96% of the...
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Brands aim to shake it up
Virtually fat-free yoghurts have not performed particularly well, with the focus on health additives and exotic flavoursHealth is such a buzzword across the food sector that you’d think low-fat yoghurts would be one of the biggest...
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Green-friendly organic
Organic brands are offering fruit and fruit juice yoghurts in a bid to infect kids with the environmentally friendly bugMany yoghurt fans have embraced organic varieties, but manufacturers reckon that it’s time for kids to get the...
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Drinks: the fashionable option
The liquid or drinking yoghurt sector has gone crazy in the past six months as time-pressed consumers start to see such products as an easy way to get their daily nutrients all in one goFashionably speaking, yoghurt drinks are the new...
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Celebrity for goats’ milk
Goats’ milk producer Delamere Dairy has recruited Antony Worrall Thompson in a bid to boost sales.The company’s 750ml Tetra Rex-packed cartons of goats’ milk are carrying a picture of the TV chef and text inviting shoppers to find out why his...
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How the proposed marriage of two dairy giants collapsed
It would have been a marriage of two dairy giants, collectively processing 14 billion litres of milk a year – a volume equivalent to the whole of the UK’s milk quota.It would have created the second largest milk processor in the world in volume...
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Mini Cheddars getting all in a pickle
Mini Cheddars is exploiting the affinity of cheese and pickle to bring out an extra flavour.Mini Cheddars Branston Pickle is being released in 50g packs with a standard rsp of 37p, as well as in seven packs at £1.35 and within variety...
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Danacol links up with BHF
Danacol, the cholesterol-lowering yoghurt drink from Danone, is hoping to leapfrog rivals Benecol and Flora Pro-activ through a new campaign linked with the British Heart Foundation.From June, all Danacol products will carry the BHF logo with...
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Cheddar sales maturing
Sales of mature Cheddar are growing faster than milder varieties.Cheese experts believe that exposure to spicy, exotic food has meant a greater demand for more pungent flavours.Sales of mature Cheddar at Tesco grew by 21% last year...
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Shoppers slurp yoghurts
The versatile yoghurt provides a healthy alternative to other desserts, and this is borne out by the wide range of products on offer in the category, with an average of 131 SKUs per store and more than a quarter of these on promotion across the six...
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Team talk: London marathon
>>Flora brand manager Warren Plaskett trains his teamThe Flora brand manager at Unilever UK Foods, Warren Plaskett, has been testing his teamwork to the max over the past few months as part of his training for the Flora London...
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Rivals fear Tesco may pocket cheese price rises
Retailers have not yet reacted to intense lobbying from dairy farmers and processors to secure retail price increases on cheese to help pay for added milk supply chain costs. One stumbling block is thought to be Tesco, because of the amount of...