All Dairy articles – Page 174
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News
Divine offers foil coins for Red Nose Day
Divine Chocolate is launching bags of milk chocolate coins wrapped in shiny red foil in support of Comic Relief's Red Nose Day. Available exclusively from Sainsbury's from next month, Divine will donate 5p from each bag sold to the...
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NewsPicture This... Robert Wiseman Gnomes best
Robert Wiseman is launching limited-edition packs to mark the launch of Gnomeo & Juliet, the new Touchstone Pictures film, which is in cinemas from 11 February. Four million of the special packs will be available throughout February. There will...
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NewsKit Kat joins sharing bags with Pop Chocs
Nestlé’s biggest confectionery brand is entering the burgeoning sharing bag category with the launch of Kit Kat Pop Choc.
The bags of bite-sized pieces of wafer coated in milk chocolate roll out next month and mark Kit Kat’s long-awaited… -
NewsIs Anchor set to cut NZ ties and move to UK?
Speculation is mounting that Arla is planning to move production of Anchor butter from New Zealand to the UK.
Butter imports into the European Union the vast majority of which come from New Zealand slumped 47% to 29,000 tonnes between… -
NewsFage adds fruit variants to Total 0%
Fage UK is ramping up its presence in the split-pot yoghurt category with a new fruity range it hopes will generate £3.5m a year. The blueberry, strawberry, tropical fruit and sweet honey variants, which will be part of its Total 0%...
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NewsEntrepreneur unveils Nutella-type spread - without the nuts
An entrepreneur is coming to the rescue of frustrated nut allergy sufferers with a new "Nutella-type" chocolate spread and peanut butter - made without nuts. Food innovation specialist Moving Food is launching nut-free No Nut Nutty Choc...
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NewsMilk dispensers may see bottles binned for good
The plastic milk bottle could soon be consigned to the bin as the UK looks set to enter a refill revolution. The Grocer has learnt that Eziserv, the company that supplied refill technology to Asda for a recent Wrap-funded dispensing trial...
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Farmers must get increased returns
Sir, I am a dairy farmer producing milk for Wyke Farms. We have just experienced the first of a number of what I think will be huge increases in our cost of production, currently running at 27p per litre, excluding return on capital. Due...
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NewsCampaign Trail: stilton chocolate, darling?
The wait is over for lovers craving chocolate-covered cheese treats. High-end Stilton maker Long Clawson Dairy's limited-edition run for Valentine's Day comprises blue Stilton in dark chocolate, aged Leicestershire Red in milk chocolate, white...
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NewsWelsh milk on shortlist for protected status bids
Welsh milk and butter could join Champagne, Parma ham and Melton Mowbray pies as protected food names, with the Welsh Assembly looking to submit the principality's finest products to the EU protected food names scheme. Nine Welsh foods...
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NewsFSA in allergy alert over Co-op Cheddars
The Co-operative Group has had to withdraw two own-label Cheddars after they were found to contain high levels of histamine, which can trigger symptoms of an allergic reaction. The retailer withdrew a total of 172 cases amounting to...
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NewsBrits gorge on low-fat Cheddar
Low-fat alternatives to Cheddar have become the UK’s fastest growing cheeses, according to new data from AC Nielsen.
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Farmer milk prices raised by processors
Major milk processors have heeded farmer calls for milk price increases to cope with soaring feed costs. Dairy Crest wrote to its farmers this week informing them of a 1ppl increase in the price it will pay to its non-aligned farmers ...
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NewsMilk prices expected to rise as feed costs rocket
The price of a pint of milk is set to rise sharply as soaring feed costs force farmers to switch to cheaper but less efficient feed reducing milk yields and supply. In a bid to reduce their overheads, some dairy farmers have started...
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NewsCornish Larder lines join Milk Link range
Milk Link has bolstered its cheesemaking portfolio with the takeover of cheesemaker Cornish Country Larder. The acquisition for an undisclosed sum will see Milk Link add the Gevrik soft goats cheese and St Endellion Cornish Brie brands to...
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NewsNational press campaign by Lactofree
Lactofree has launched a nationwide press campaign to raise awareness of lactose-intolerant shoppers. The £1.3m campaign, running exclusively in the Metro newspaper, features illustrations to help people recognise its symptoms.
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NewsLurpak takes sea salt butter mainstream
Lurpak has moved to inject some much-needed NPD into butters and spreads with the launch of a sea salt variant this week. Lurpak Sea Salt (rsp: £1.54/200g) comes in the traditional block butter format instead of the smaller pack sizes...
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NewsWyke claims a seasonal win over Seriously Strong
Three weeks into the new year, and the Cheddar category is hotting up already, with Wyke Farms and Seriously Strong squaring up over who performed better over Christmas. According to data from Kantar, the Wyke Farms portfolio saw a 26%...
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Profiles
The Human Angle: James Bruce, Danone UK
Name: James Bruce Job title: National account controller and brand champion for Actimel Company name: Danone UK Sales (£): Retail sales for Danone for latest 52 weeks: £379.5m [Nielsen 1 January] HQ location: Ealing Number of employees: 97 (dairy division)
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NewsYeo bigs up its sales to the tune of £10m
Yeo Valley's groundbreaking 'rapping farmers' ad helped boost sales by almost £10m, The Grocer can reveal. Almost half a million more households bought Yeo Valley products in the 12 weeks to 25 December than in the preceding period...