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The Acid Test
>>consumers and buyers give their views on the latest launchesHeartily HealthyFrom: GlanbiaThis cholesterol-lowering Cheddar-style cheese is aimed at bringing back to the cheese fixture the two million consumers...
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The Acid Test
>>consumers and buyers give their views on the latest launchesMoo milkFrom: Milk Link This three-strong long life range is positioned as fresh milk packed to last longer. The company claims 95% of testers could...
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The Acid Test
>>consumers and buyers give their views on the latest launchesski stopgapFrom: NestléNestlé’s new yogurt drink Ski Stopgap is available in three variants, Berry Mix, Tropical and Honey & Banana. It is being...
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The Acid Test
>>consumers and buyers give their views on the latest launchesFilippo berio olive spreadFrom: Matthews FoodsThe olive oil brand has moved into territory dominated by Unilever’s newly-renamed Bertolli with the...
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Lurpak enters flavours
Mary Carmichael Arla Foods is spreading its Lurpak brand into flavoured butters with the launch of a three-strong range. The newcomers mark only the third brand extension in the butter stalwart's 101-year history, and follow the...
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The Acid Test
>>consumers and buyers give their views on the latest launchesMayver’s Australian Peanut butterFrom: Ancient DistributorsMayver’s Australian Peanut Butter is an Omega-3 enriched product which contains small amounts...
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Additional Glanbia role
Jim Cooney, chief executive of Glanbia Foods' UK procurement company Glanbia Milk, has also become deputy chief executive of Glanbia Foods UK to target ongoing development in the hard cheese market. The group said the post was a newly created role...
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Fish cake arrivals
Birds Eye is continuing its bid to put the Enjoy! frozen meals d颢cle behind it by demonstrating its continued commitment to what it does best. The frozen foods specialist is launching two new fish cakes  smoked haddock, cheese & leek, and...
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Big five bow to Gill over milk
Elaine Watson The top five multiples have all separately agreed to pay an extra 2p a litre for milk on the understanding that the cash is passed on down the chain to farmers. The move follows a series of individual, top level meetings...
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Snack brand's offensive
Simon Mowbray Golden Vale is to have a snack attack with its children's Cheestrings brand, launching three new products next month. Heading the line-up of new offerings will be Attack-a-Snak, an any time treat targeted at the light snacking...
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Onken sets Biowild on Muller territory
Yogurt brand Onken is downsizing  to offer single-serve pots for the first time. The move will pitch it against the likes of market leader Muller which currently dominates the sector with Muller Corners and Mullerlight. Onken said its...
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Difficult Early Years
The Soil Association says many of its members are being driven out of business because the price paid to producers for organic milk has dropped from 29.5p a litre last year to 18p, a third less than the production cost. So it is encouraging farmers...
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Cheese is more pleasing
After a tough time in the nineties, cheese is bouncing back, showing healthy growth. The total cheese market is worth £1.4bn and is growing at 5.6% (ACNielsen Scantrak). Retailer brands still account for the vast majority of sales, with pre-packed...
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dairies take 3.4% more milk
UK milk deliveries to dairies showed a 3.4% increase during the first half of this year according to the latest analysis from DEFRA. Exports of milk for processing to dairies outside the UK recovered by 30% after last year's FMD difficulties. ...
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Flavour of the alternative
Anew set of players is muscling in on the dairy sector but there's not a drop of milk involved. Dairy alternative producers, making everything from substitute milk to butter-style spreads and ice cream, are making healthy returns on growing sales...
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The colours of their money
Fresh fuel is to be given to flavoured milks by the ambitions of Nestle. The food giant is restructuring its impulse drinks division in preparation for an assault on the children's market via its Nesquik brand (The Grocer,August 24,p15). Nestle...
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Goats milk loses cottage feel
Across the world more people drink goats milk than that of any other animal and it appears the habbit is catching on over here.While goats milk remains a niche market, it is now not uncommon to find cartons of the product stocked alongside...
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Multiples Look To More New Product Development
The major supermarkets believe that new products have stimulated the market and would like to see even more being done to reinvigorate the sector.Christopher Sellars, trading manager for yellow fats at Sainsbury, says: "The butter market will...
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Top Ten Butter Brands
1 Lurpak Spreadable Butter2 Flora Pro-activ Light Spread 3 Flora Light Spread 4 Clover Std Dairy Spread 5 Anchor Butter 6 St Ivel Utterly Butterly D/Sp 7 Olivio 8 ...
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Tumbling Markets
Given the lifecycle of the dairy cow, milk producers add a further element of stability and the operation of a dairy farm is a long-term commitment  even though that long-term is moving towards fewer but larger dairy herds. Yet the past year...