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Supplier Spotlight
Commanding a place in the premium section of the major multiples’ cheese fixtures has helped to keep retail price-cutting at bay for Belton Cheese’s Belton Farm brand.But MD Justin Beckett is still conscious of how major retailers’ propensity...
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Major brands cut back deal volumes
Producers of the UK’s three leading Cheddar brands have all made headway in reducing the volumes of their cheese they sell through price promotions.Dairy Crest has cut the quantity of top Cheddar brand Cathedral City sold on deals from 63.7% in...
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Les Kol aims to be the big cheese with half the fat
Wyke Farms is pitching its half-fat cheese brand Les Kol against big hitter Mini Babybel in a bid to take a slice of the snacking cheese category.Les Kol On The Go is a tube of five individually wrapped 20g cheese spheres, which Wyke Farms...
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Milk hike ‘won’t worry the OFT’
An across-the-board retail price rise for liquid milk should not cause concern to the OFT, according to Arla Foods UK chief executive Tim Smith.Last week all the big four retailers increased the in-store price of a pint of milk by 1p,...
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Alpro shines light on soya milk drink
Dairy free specialist Alpro is hoping to lure diet-conscious women away from skimmed milk with a light, sugar-free soya version containing just 1.2% fat.As the first chilled, dairy-free and unsweetened product of its kind on the UK market,...
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Arla milk volumes decrease
Dairy group Arla Foods UK has revealed that milk volumes to the "challenging middle market" decreased in the first quarter of last year.However, in a trading update to the City, Arla said that volumes to supermarkets and household deliveries...
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Spreadable, Seriously
McLelland hopes to cut itself a bigger chunk of the UK Cheddar market with a spreadable version of Seriously Strong, which enters Asda this month.As revealed by The Grocer last year (23 July), the spread has been developed to extend the...
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Haskins: processors are ‘stupid’
Lord Haskins, the former chairman of Express Dairies, launched an extraordinary attack on the UK’s milk processors this week, claiming they were “stupid” and “idiotic”.Speaking at the Semex dairy conference in Glasgow, Lord Haskins said...
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Haskins: processors are ‘stupid’
Lord Haskins, the former chairman of Express Dairies, launched an extraordinary attack on the UK’s milk processors this week, claiming they were “stupid” and “idiotic”.Speaking at the Semex dairy conference in Glasgow, Lord Haskins said...
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Dairy sector hails the retention of national school milk subsidy
The dairy industry has welcomed a pledge by Defra minister Lord Bach to retain the national subsidy for school milk.There had been fears the £1.5m-a-year subsidy would be axed after economists told ministers it was unnecessary.But Lord...
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Dairy sector hails the retention of national school milk subsidy
The dairy industry has welcomed a pledge by Defra minister Lord Bach to retain the national subsidy for school milk.There had been fears the £1.5m-a-year subsidy would be axed after economists told ministers it was unnecessary.But Lord...
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Millions takes a shot at chocolate
Chewy sweets brand Millions is making a bold transition from sugar to the chocolate bar category to widen the snacking opportunities for the product.Golden Casket, which owns the Millions brands of small chewy pellets, is launching two milk...
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On the Campaign Trail
Müller focuses on low-fat yoghurt… Rajah raises the flavour… Petits Filous goes on a big adventure… Warburtons poses a riddle…What’s new overseas?Budget undisclosed Manufacturer MüllerMüller has turned the...
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Tropicana offers OJ with Benecol
PepsiCo has achieved a first in the UK soft drinks market with the launch of orange juice containing cholesterol-lowering Benecol under its market-leading brand Tropicana.Tropicana Essentials with Benecol is the first fruit juice product...
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Quota trade ban faces challenge
A legal challenge to the embargo on cross-border EU milk quota transfers has moved a step closer.One of the UK’s leading quota brokers, Ian Potter, flew to Italy this week to meet lawyers representing a consortium of farmers that has agreed to...
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Other ways to put the knife in
The ‘other spreads’ category has a diverse sales picture across the multiples, with peanut butter and chocolate spread volatile in their popularity. Marmite remains a strong favourite, howeverThere have been few new entrants in the...
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On the Campaign Trail
A place in the sun for Müller… Old El Paso tastes the fun… HurricanE support from Cafédirect… Nicorette scraps cigarettes…Who’s at the cutting edge of NPD?Budget undisclosed Manufacturer MüllerLuxury dessert...
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Giants’ alliance guns for Danone
A proposed chilled yoghurts and desserts joint venture between Nestlé and Lactalis is to challenge the dominance of Danone in European markets.Nestlé spokesman François-Xavier Perroud said that the new venture, to be set up later this year,...
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Dairy product price trends 2004 to 2005
intervention price. For skim milk powder, the intervention cuts so far have amounted to about 10%, but recent Continental prices are only down by about 4% compared with January 2004. Further declines may yet be seen in the next two months to...
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MDC hails school milk goldmine
Government recommendations aimed at restricting the types of food and drink that can be sold in schools represent a massive opportunity for dairy suppliers, it was claimed this week.Ministers have proposed that from September 2006 the only...