All Dairy articles – Page 216
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Bromide ban sparks cheese price worries
Specialist cheese producers who use cloth wrapping techniques to store cheeses during maturation have warned retailers to expect a price hike. The cheese makers have been hit by an EU ban on using the gas methyl bromide to control cheese...
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Arla buy-out set to tidy up loose ends
Arla's branded dairy portfolio is expected to get a cash injection if the recommended 71p-a-share take-over bid from its biggest shareholder goes through. Danish-Swedish dairy co-op Arla amba already owns 51% of Arla Foods UK and has been...
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Sunrise takes on Adez with soya drinks trio
Soya Health Foods, the producer of soya milk brand Sunrise, is heating up the competition in the soya beverages market with the launch of a range of juice and milk drinks aimed at the breakfast table. The Sunrise Healthy Start range will...
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Innovation
Gone are the days when vegetarian lasagne and macaroni cheese were the most exciting vegetarian products available on supermarket shelves. Manufacturers are now offering increasingly adventurous choices in the vegetarian sector to tempt both...
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Nestlé's second stab at premium with Heaven
Nestlé Rowntree is making another play for the premium chocolate consumer with the introduction of a connoisseur brand made in Switzerland. The launch comes just over a year after the company scrapped its luxury Double Cream brand due to poor...
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Wheat shortfall to hit organic supplies hard
There is likely to be a shortage of organic eggs, milk and poultry in a few months, producers have warned. Organic wheat - a vital mainstay of the organic farm animal's diet - is in chronically short supply this year, with prices already...
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Yeo Valley sticks meet kids health challenge
Yeo Valley is on a mission to get kids taking the tube to school by launching the yoghurt market's first organic, hand-held, stick product. The producer will challenge rival Petit Filous' popular fromage frais brand Frubes with its Yeo's...
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Layers added in bid to revive Müllerlight
Müller is hoping to boost sales of its struggling Müllerlight brand by adding a range of layered real fruit products to the low fat yoghurt portfolio. Müllerlight Layers, which consist of creamy-tasting yoghurt with a bottom layer of...
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Campaign trail: Danone is making consumers' resolutions to drink Actimel every day easier to swallow by giving a month's free supply
Danone is making consumers' resolutions to drink Actimel every day easier to swallow by giving a month's free supply. Its new promotion, running on 10 million packs, tells them how 'A little every day goes a long, long way' and offers to...
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Noble stands firm to downsizing threat
Egg giant Noble Foods has vowed to fight a ruling that could see it split up by the competition watchdog. Formed in the merger between Stonegate and Deans Foods on 23 June, Noble Foods has been under investigation by the Competition...
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Müller warns inquiry of supermarket power
Any further growth in the power of the big four supermarkets could harm consumers, Müller Dairy UK has told the Competition Commission. In a letter to the Commission's grocery inquiry team, the yoghurt manufacturer's supply chain...
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Protect the future of dairy farming
Urban consumers have long seen farmers as a bunch of over-subsidised whingers so the distressing arithmetic of the British dairy industry is largely lost on them. First there is the fact that 1,000 dairy farms are going bust each year...
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Asda puts Akkerman back in the running
Plans to build a giant commodity cheese plant in Cumbria look to be gaining pace following intervention by Asda. The Partners in Cheese project, lead by Dutch entrepreneur Ronald Akkerman, seemed to be foundering last month because dairy...
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The Grocer urges FSA to Weigh It Up!
Honey can no longer be advertised to children. Cheese is a definite no-no for kids and as for cornflakes, beware, you young ones - eating them will make you fat. Apparently.The Grocer launched its Weigh It Up! campaign in February,...
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Asda cheeky? You'd butter believe it
"What's the point of stocking both Utterly Butterly and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? It's only marge!"With an insouciant flourish, Asda's food trading director Darren Blackhurst explained his rationale for delisting similar products...
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Co-op withdraws crisps
The Co-op has withdrawn all batches of its own-label multi-pack crisps because the ready salted flavour contains casein which is not declared on the label.Casein is unsafe for people with a milk allergy or milk intolerance.The...
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Yoghurt: from sweet to sporty
In the £2bn yoghurt and pot desserts market the so-called functional yoghurts have once again driven category growth. Big brand names Bio Activia, Müller Vitality and Flora helped the category climb 4%. It was a particularly good year...
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Star Product
Cow's milk is not the usual drink of choice for those consumers suffering from lactose intolerance, but thanks to innovation from Arla Foods in the form of Lactofree, now it can be. The product, hailed as the UK's first lactose-free dairy drink...
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Star Product
Kraft Foods took the format for its Dairylea Dunkers brand of cheese spread and biscuits and transferred it to the yoghurt category to boost the brand's appeal among a younger age group. Dairylea Dunkers fromage frais comes in strawberry and...