All Dairy articles – Page 216
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Egg majors merge to generate efficiencies
Egg producers Deans Foods and Stonegate unveiled plans to merge this week, forming the biggest egg supplier in the UK with half of the market. A major swing in demand towards free-range and organic eggs is said to have fuelled the drive...
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Dale Farm heads for a swell time
Dairy processor Dale Farm GB has revealed further details of expansion plans for Scotland and England as it focuses on raising its profile outside its Belfast HQ. The company is also on the acquisition trail in England in order to improve...
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Butter Spreadables up, block sales slide
Butter was something of a dirty word a few years ago. As consumers were encouraged to follow low-fat diets, yellow slabs of butter were viewed by many as at best an indulgence and at worst a short cut to ill health.But with TV chefs...
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Butter Spreadables up, block sales slide
Butter was something of a dirty word a few years ago. As consumers were encouraged to follow low-fat diets, yellow slabs of butter were viewed by many as at best an indulgence and at worst a short cut to ill health.But with TV chefs...
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Country Life ad sticks knife into rival Anchor
Dairy Crest is spreading controversy in the butter sector, with a print ad for its Country Life brand that contrasts the food miles of a rival with its own British provenance. The ad sticks the knife into Anchor butter - the number two...
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Brands spread butter offers across retailers
This week's Promotrack focuses on the butters/spreads and cheese sub-categories in line with the Focus on Butters & Spreads. Of the featured space promotional activity recorded over the past 12 weeks, promotions were captured...
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Price Survey
Asda's decision to join Tesco and Waitrose in raising the price of its own label milk has had little impact on its position as the UK's cheapest supermarket, according to The Grocer 33's latest survey. Both Asda and Morrisons have...
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Yeo Valley does fun TV take on exercise
Organic dairy manufacturer Yeo Valley is showing all the lazy cows out there the importance of exercise in its first TV campaign. A series of lighthearted adverts focus on one cow in particular, which will be seen jogging, swimming and...
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starter culture ?
Despite the success to date of The Craigmyle Cheese Company, the development process wasn't entirely glitch-free. Liz Marchant recalls a day when one of their batches of cheese just wouldn't firm up. "We tried all sorts of things but it just...
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TLC that makes a premium cheese head of the curd
To say Liz and Neil Marchant's dreams have come true may be a bit cheesy, but there's no better way to describe the business that the husband and wife team run from their home in Torphins near Aberdeen. The Craigmyle Cheese Company, an...
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'Soaring' UK cheese output was overstated
After more than two years of largely steady prices, at least for the popular mild cheese, UK Cheddar is showing a sharp tendency towards lower prices. Since May, first-hand prices for cheese of UK and Irish origin have moved down 10% to levels...
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Farmers relieved by Asda milk price hike
Turbulence in the dairy industry continued this week with Asda slashing the shelf price of its British Cheddar cheese by 27% and simultaneously reversing its March price cut on liquid milk. Dairy Crest also cut the price it pays farmers...
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Company profile - The Craigmyle Cheese Company
Product: Organic cheeseCustomers: Restaurants and delisOutput: 8 tonnes a yearTo say Liz and Neil Marchant's dreams have come true may be a bit cheesy, but there's no better way to describe the business the husband and wife team run...
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Unilever rapped for Flora ads
The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that claims made in Unilever's advertisements for its Flora pro-activ margarine are misleading.The ASA received a complaint for a press ad for the product that said: “A spread that not only...
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Cadbury recall investigated
Cadbury Schweppes' recall of seven products due to possible salmonella contamination is to be investigated by Herefordshire Council and the Food Standards Agency.Last week the confectionery giant recalled Cadbury Dairy Milk Turkish 250g,...
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Cadbury recalls seven products
Cadbury Schweppes has recalled seven products due to possible salmonella contamination.The affected products are Cadbury Dairy Milk Turkish 250g, Cadbury Dairy Milk Caramel 250g, Cadbury Dairy Milk Mint 250g, Cadbury Dairy Milk 8-chunk,...
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St Ivel defends use of 'clever milk' tag
Dairy Crest said it would continue to promote certain benefits of its St Ivel Advance milk despite the ASA's ruling that its adverts made misleading claims about helping improve children's intelligence. The company said it had amended its...