All Dairy articles – Page 201
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insight - yoghurt consumers
Three billion meals featured yoghurt last year Yoghurt sales hit £1bn after 4% growth year-on-year 30% of yoghurt is consumed by women aged 45+ 80% of yoghurt is eaten during the week A healthy boost for yoghurt consumption The drive to clean up...
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ASA rejects complaints about Localchoice ads
Tesco's new regional milk line got an unexpected fillip this week when the Advertising Standards Authority rejected complaints the milk wasn't actually local. Tesco said it was pleased the watchdog had ruled TV and press ads promoting...
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Cheesy Fusion tubs trialled in Waitrose
The producer of Primula spreadable cheese is targeting new customers with a range of upmarket soft cheeses being trialled in Waitrose from this month. The Cheesy Fusion range sells in tubs priced at £1.69, and producer Kavli is pitching...
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young, fit and boxing clever
Depending on which way you look at it, it's either been a good year for Cadbury's brands - or a disastrous one. Rocked by the salmonella incident and the demonisation of HFSS foods by the obesity police, Dairy Milk has seen its brand...
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Processors warn of 20% milk price hike
Consumers could be facing another big rise in the supermarket price of dairy products, after processors gave the strongest indication yet that a 20% rise in farm gate milk prices is on the cards. Arla Foods Milk Partnership chairman...
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Milk industry pins hopes on merger
The proposed merger between First Milk and Milk Link has been billed by the NFU as "the best news the dairy industry has had for many years". But while it has been welcomed by milk processors and dairy farmers, is it really the great white hope...
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Festive snacks are unveiled
Snack supplier Nature's Table is launching a range of limited-edition fruit and nut snacks with a festive twist.The three new variants comprise a yoghurt cranberry option, a macadamia & cranberry mix and white chocolate strawberries. The...
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monitor - Dairy product prices
Spiralling dairy product prices could be about to plateau. There are signs that prices have reached the top of the cycle and even, for some products, begun to ease. Skimmed milk powder, for example, has fallen back 4.5% in value from its peak last...
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OFT called on to give merger green light
Dairy industry sources have called on the OFT to give the go-ahead to the proposed merger of First Milk and Milk Link.Opponents of the merger have argued that although the combined co-op would control less than 25% of Britain's raw milk...
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Feta supplier taking advantage of PDO
A Greek dairy supplier has unveiled plans to shake up the Feta cheese category and capitalise on its new Protected Designation of Origin status.FAGE, the Greek dairy giant behind the Total Greek Yoghurt brand, has introduced a new...
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Food marketing claims slammed
A group of young scientists have slammed the health claims made by food companies to sell products.Their report, There Goes the Science Bit, published by the charity Sense About Science, singled out Nestlé's Ski Activ8 yoghurt, which claims...
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Flora loses crown to Lurpak butter
Lurpak has knocked Flora off the top spot in the butter and spreads category after an almost 20-year reign, signalling a switch in consumer demand for natural rather than manufactured fats. The Arla-owned brand clocked up sales of...
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Green threat bigger than soaring prices
Green issues should be at the top of the agenda for the world's dairy processors, not commodity prices or nutrition, according to president of the International Dairy Federation Jim Begg. Ignoring record milk powder prices and the raging...
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Price Basket - milk products
Milk price increases have fed through to the supermarket shelf, pushing the cost of our dairy basket to its highest total for more than two years, despite a special offer on Stilton at one major retailer. Butter prices are up more than 30% and milk...
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Arla brings Danish Castello to Britain
Arla Foods has brought its cheese brand Castello to the UK, supported by a £2.1m marketing push. The Danish cheese, which is being rolled out to Tesco, Morrisons and Asda this month, comes in Castello Blue, a blue-veined gourmet option...
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Staffordshire cheese gets PDO
Staffordshire Cheese has become the latest UK product to be awarded Protected Designation of Origin status by the European Union.The Staffordshire Cheese name will now be protected under European law through its link to a specific...
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Processors feel heat over missing money
As retailers continued to deny allegations they had made £270m from price fixing in the dairy industry, attention began to turn this week to the milk processors.A spokesman for one retailer said the Office of Fair Trading, which...
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our man from drip Don Pumsey - 29th September 2007
Gotcha! You could almost taste the fusty air of jubilation in Fingleton's office as he briefed me on the findings of his yoghurt commission. Bang to rights! All four of the buggers and half the bloody dairy industry too! Eat my shorts, Freeman! Yes,...
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Rivals are Müllered in yoghurts and desserts
Müller accounted for 54% of promotional featured space activity in the top five chilled yoghurts & pot desserts rankings at the weekend - a massive 31 percentage points more than nearest rival Yoplait.
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insight - Canned tomato consumers
There were almost 600 million meals using canned tomatoes last year Consumption has risen more than 10% since 2004 Tomatoes are the most popular option in the canned vegetable aisle, with sales up 11% to £98.7m Health market offers growth...