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Express/Arla dairy deal gets green light
The UK arm of Danish dairy group Arla Foods has been cleared for its £155m takeover of Express Dairies.The deal brings the number of milk suppliers down from four to three. The merged company, Arla Foods UK, is now the UK’s biggest fresh...
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Producers in frame as Aeron Valley becomes part of McLelland Group
A McLelland, the supplier of major Cheddar brand Seriously Strong, together with farmer-owned dairy business First Milk have announced McLelland’s intended acquisition of a major shareholding in Aeron Valley Cheese in South Wales.The...
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M&S specialities
M&S has launched a new range of speciality British cheeses. The ‘From the deli’ range is made up of five cheeses ranging from a Cornish Tiskey to a Dovedale Blue and is available in 100 stores, said cheese technologist John Pearson. Each features...
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Princes buys Crest juice
Dairy Crest has sold its own label chilled juice business in Kidlington to Princes as part of its strategy to focus on added value and branded operations.The £11m deal follows the closure of its butter and powder ingredients business in...
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Kavli packs a real Scooby snack
Kavli is upping the ante in its battle with rival Kraft in the lunchbox arena.The cheese spread manufacturer, which owns the Primula cream cheese brand, is launching a Scooby-Doo branded lunchbox. Set to do battle with Kraft’s range of...
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Dairy Crest sells juice plant
Dairy Crest has sold its chilled drinks business to Princes for £11m to focus on developing its spreads and flavoured milk.Dairy Crest said the sale of own label juice operations at Kidlington, Oxfordshire, would incur a one-off charge of...
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O’Sullivan takes UK arm
Dublin-based Dairygold has announced the appointment of John O’Sullivan as director of its newly consolidated UK division, Dairygold UK.He will oversee the development of Galtee and McLaren Meats and Haslington Cheese in the UK...
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shingled pack
Glanbia has secured a contract with Waitrose to supply cutting edge packaging for the retailer’s sliced cheeses range.The new shingled pack formats contains 10 slices with a reclosable push-in lid and will be used on Waitrose’s Half Fat...
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The great non-food gamble
Does Sainsbury’s new homeware range anchor a convincing non-food offer? Liz Hamson reportsLast week Sainsbury unveiled its new homeware range at its Chippenham store as it went into battle with John Lewis and Debenhams for a bigger...
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Northern’s frontiers
Elaine Watson takes soundings on which assets will have to goA tacit ‘for sale’ sign has been hanging over a clutch of its non-core businesses ever since the sale of Ski last year. Yet management has, until this week, skirted...
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puds from müller
Müller is broadening its chilled dessert portfolio with a new range of custard combinations called Puds.The new banner, which will receive £500,000 in sampling and ad support, covers existing Custard and Sponge mixes as well as a new Golden...
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Noddy’s white stuff
Wiltshire-based dairy company Highgrove is bringing out a new bottled milk for children, which it claims is the first to be branded with a TV character.Noddy Milk comes in a one-pint bottle sporting a shrink-wrapped label in primary colours...
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PoP could lead to temptation
The pre-packaged cheese display in store tends to be uninspiring and functional. While some segmentation exists, for example cheddars displayed ranged from mild to mature, there is little extra guidance unless the customer reads the...
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In Profile: Q&A with Melvin Glynn, Commercial Director, Ilchester Cheese Co
What is your career background? I started work in the cheese industry as a production manager for Western Cheese in Corsham, Wiltshire. From there I moved to...
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dunkers addition
Kraft Foods is investing more than £300,000 behind the launch of yet another addition to its Dairylea Dunkers range. Finger Dunkers are crispy potato rings with a Dairylea cheese dip. In store from September 8, the new addition will be supported by...
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Aloe Vera for Onken
Onken Dairy is cashing in on the popularity of Aloe Vera by throwing it into the yogurt arena.It is believed to be the first time the plant extract – a popular ingredient in cosmetics, household paper and detergent products – has been used...
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n imports LEAPImports of cheese into the UK in May showed a jump of 30% on a year earlier.Volumes leapt from 21,600 tonnes to 28,200 tonnes, mainly due to a boost in Cheddar imports from 7,600 tonnes to 11,400 tonnes, with Irish shipments jumping by over...
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Keeping the dream rolling
United Milk’s collapse is not writing on the wall for farmer co-ops says Vic RobertsonHe is not exactly saying “I told you so”, but in 2001 government farming advisor Sean Rickard of Cranfield University accurately predicted a rocky...
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Bertolli faces a ‘credible’ rival
Matthews Foods is joining forces with top-selling olive oil brand Filippo Berio to take on the might of Unilever.The Yorkshire-based yellow fats specialist, which enjoys a modest turnover of around £30m with its predominantly own label...
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Freekee is tango’d
Britvic is bringing its six-month-old kids’ milk and juice drink Freekee Soda under the Tango banner and reducing the 330ml price from 62p to 55p, with an initial promotion of 49p. n The move comes after the threat...