All Dairy articles – Page 197
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Slaying the Welsh dragon
There's a battle raging across the Channel that promises to be hard fought, with British cheese producers playing a card that has long been the trump of their French counterparts.Interest in British artisan cheese is growing. Last year,...
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Selling France to the British
It's been a love-hate relationship for centuries, but our admiration for French food and wine shows no signs of abating. With our growing consumption of rosé wines, croissants and baguettes, Président butter, Roquefort and Camembert...
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More farmers get on board for Seriously
Lactalis McLelland, the supplier of Seriously cheese, has recruited 20 more farmers from the south west of Scotland and Cumbria to supply milk from next month.The Caledonian Cheese Company, an arm of Lactalis McLelland, had already added...
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insight - 29th March 2008
AGE PROFILE of cheese consumers Children 0-1015% 11-167% Male 17-3411% 35-6419% 65+8% Female 17-3411% 35-6419% 65+10% Info: Usage overview of cheese. In-home/lunchbox consumption Cheese sales grew 6.2% to £2bn last year Cheddar represents 72% of...
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Pressure on retailers to increase milk price
Pressure is mounting on Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda to increase the milk price paid to their dedicated producers and "calm farmer nerves".Tesco is expected to increase the price, which is based on a formula geared 60% towards costs of...
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Loseley butter line launched
Dale Farm is launching premium dairy brand Loseley into butter to tap into growing consumer demand for natural spreads. It believes the line could be worth £2m within three years, which would make it a top 20 selling spreads...
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Price Survey - 22nd March 2008
Despite hefty price cuts at Morrisons, Asda has returned after a three-week absence from the top spot to reclaim the title of cheapest retailer. Asda undercut Morrisons on 13 items, the most significant of which was Cathedral City Cheddar: £1...
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Ewes cheese for Waitrose
Shepherds Purse has won a national contract to supply two of its ewes milk cheeses to Waitrose following trials in 14 Yorkshire stores. It will be supplying Olde York to 60 Waitrose stores. The profile of the company had been lifted by...
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Cheddar cheese faces major supply squeeze
Producers are warning of possible shortages of Cheddar cheese following a significant tightening of supplies. Falling levels of Cheddar production combined with lower imports in the past year have led to supplies only just meeting...
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Kraft aiming to make Oreo major UK brand
Kraft is ploughing a record £13m into its Oreo, Dairylea and Toblerone brands in the next five months as it rolls out new flavours and pack designs, and strives to create a major biscuit brand in the UK.It plans to replicate the success...
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monitor - 15th March 2008
Although milk prices paid to farmers across the UK have risen by 40% over the past year to between 25p-27p per litre, there are still warnings that milk production will continue to decline because of lack of profitability. A recent study by Promar...
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Kerry Group acquires Breeo Foods
Kerry Group, the company behind Wall's sausages, Mattessons and Cheestrings, has acquired Irish food company Breeo Foods for E165m (£126m).Breeo Foods makes a number of dairy and meat brands sold in Ireland including Dairygold, Galtee and...
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First Milk: 'Pay more so farmers can invest'
First Milk is calling on dairy farmers to be paid a higher price that allows the industry not just to subsist but to grow.A report from the farmer-owned co-op claims producers needed to be paid 29.64ppl to be profitable. Farmers...
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Price Basket - Price of cheese is rising steadily
Dairy prices have reached a three-year high, and the cost of cheese is climbing steadily. Pre-packed Blue Stilton is now 41.2% more expensive than a year ago, and is at its highest price since March 2005. The basket is now 18.7% more expensive than...
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Dairy farming 'on brink of collapse'
UK dairy farming is “on the brink of collapse” and a new formula to calculate a consistently fair price for milk should be introduced, according to Peter Humphreys, CEO of First Milk.His warning follow a report by the dairy company which...
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Organic milk gets Zen theme for online push
Organic milk groups have launched a tongue-in-cheek internet campaign based on Eastern spirituality to boost long-term sales of organic milk as new figures reveal its surge in popularity is tailing off.The Love-om campaign, which will be...
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Babybel flags up its natural credentials
Bel UK is investing millions of pounds in a new TV ad for its Mini Babybel brand and the launch of a grated Leerdammer.The ad, which breaks on 10 March and kicks off a £3m spend for Mini Babybel this year, will highlight the fact that it...
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Sales up at Kerry Group
Kerry Group - the Irish food company behind Wall's sausages, Mattessons and Cheestrings - has reported a 35% increase in full-year pre-tax profit to E298m (£224m) on sales up 6.7% at E4.8bn (£3.6bn).Its brands outperformed market growth...
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insight - tuna
AGE PROFILE of canned tuna consumers Children 0-1014% 11-169% Male 17-3412% 35-6418% 65+4% Female 17-3415% 35-6421% 65+7% Info: Usage overview of canned tuna. Year ending August 2007. In-home/lunchbox consumption Canned tuna was eaten on 731 million...
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Lactalis puts hands up over price fixing
Lactalis McLelland has admitted its involvement in the dairy price-fixing scandal and will pay a fine.The Scottish cheese producer conceded that A McLelland and Son had been involved in alleged anti-competitive practice related to retail...