All Dairy articles – Page 207
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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...
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Defra's 'outlandish' milk plans blasted
Dairy industry leaders have slammed Defra proposals to make the sector more environmentally friendly as "outlandish".The first draft of the long-awaited Milk Roadmap, shown to a select group of stakeholders last week, suggests a...
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Asda tests brand equity
Asda is putting the brand equity of Britain's food and drink brands to the test in an attempt to weed out needless duplication and offer customers greater choice. Earlier this summer the UK's second-largest supermarket delisted Princes tuna...
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In Brief: Raising the standard; Sainsbury's premium; Arla hit by shortage
Raising the standard The standards behind British Lion eggs have been upgraded to improve salmonella controls and traceability. From next month the www.britegg.co.uk website will allow consumers to trace eggs back to the farm they came from....
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Alpro uses wellbeing to drive new growth
Alpro is hoping to take the brand to a wider audience and breathe life into the slowing soya market with a new campaign focusing on wellbeing. The 2008 Year of Wellbeing campaign is Alpro's most significant to date and will involve 16...
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Unilever culls 315 jobs at three UK factories
Unilever is axing 315 jobs at three of its UK manufacturing plants, including the country's only Marmite factory, while positions at its Pot Noodle and Flora plants are also under threat. Unilever said the latest job losses were part of...
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Price Survey
After weeks of anticipation the rocketing price of commodities has finally hit the supermarket shelves, but the rising price of bread, milk and other staples is by no means across the board. Our analysis of The Grocer 33 this week shows,...