All Dairy articles – Page 240
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Northern’s frontiers
Elaine Watson takes soundings on which assets will have to goA tacit ‘for sale’ sign has been hanging over a clutch of its non-core businesses ever since the sale of Ski last year. Yet management has, until this week, skirted...
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PoP could lead to temptation
The pre-packaged cheese display in store tends to be uninspiring and functional. While some segmentation exists, for example cheddars displayed ranged from mild to mature, there is little extra guidance unless the customer reads the...
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n imports LEAPImports of cheese into the UK in May showed a jump of 30% on a year earlier.Volumes leapt from 21,600 tonnes to 28,200 tonnes, mainly due to a boost in Cheddar imports from 7,600 tonnes to 11,400 tonnes, with Irish shipments jumping by over...
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In Profile: Q&A with Melvin Glynn, Commercial Director, Ilchester Cheese Co
What is your career background? I started work in the cheese industry as a production manager for Western Cheese in Corsham, Wiltshire. From there I moved to...
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Aloe Vera for Onken
Onken Dairy is cashing in on the popularity of Aloe Vera by throwing it into the yogurt arena.It is believed to be the first time the plant extract – a popular ingredient in cosmetics, household paper and detergent products – has been used...
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dunkers addition
Kraft Foods is investing more than £300,000 behind the launch of yet another addition to its Dairylea Dunkers range. Finger Dunkers are crispy potato rings with a Dairylea cheese dip. In store from September 8, the new addition will be supported by...
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Freekee is tango’d
Britvic is bringing its six-month-old kids’ milk and juice drink Freekee Soda under the Tango banner and reducing the 330ml price from 62p to 55p, with an initial promotion of 49p. n The move comes after the threat...
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Keeping the dream rolling
United Milk’s collapse is not writing on the wall for farmer co-ops says Vic RobertsonHe is not exactly saying “I told you so”, but in 2001 government farming advisor Sean Rickard of Cranfield University accurately predicted a rocky...
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Co-op makes pledge on TV
The Co-operative Group is supporting the launch of its “bread and milk promise” with a TV ad to be shown across selected regions.The promise is being rolled out to the society’s 1,200 stores and states that if the store runs out of specific...
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buffalo option
Buffalo milk has hit the shelves in two branches of Waitrose.The stores, in Milton Keynes and Leighton Buzzard, are the first in the country to stock the premium range product.The milk is produced by local farmer Nick Griffin, who...
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Bertolli faces a ‘credible’ rival
Matthews Foods is joining forces with top-selling olive oil brand Filippo Berio to take on the might of Unilever.The Yorkshire-based yellow fats specialist, which enjoys a modest turnover of around £30m with its predominantly own label...
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United Milk heads into receivership
Leading dairy farmer co-operative United Milk, based at Westbury, Wilts, has gone into receivership.The country's other major co-ops – First Milk, Milk Link and Dairy Farmers of Britain – confirmed they were in active discussions with the...
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Green & Black’s ad "misleading"
Organic chocolate maker Green & Black’s have been told by watchdogs that a poster advertising its chocolate was “misleading”. The poster stated: “You’ll notice our chocolate tastes different, that’s because we use cocoa butter instead of...
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Heat Havoc
The enduring heatwave is causing havoc for a wide variety of sectors across Europe and beyond. Milk output is reported to be slumping in many parts of Spain, Italy and France, as well as other regions in Germany and Austria.Grass pastures...
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Lunchable falls in line
Kraft has signalled its devotion to the Dairylea Lunchables range despite recent adverse publicity over salt and fat content.The company last month made a global vow to improve the makeup of its key lines.And it said that new Pitta...
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Britvic’s Freekee makes a Strange move
Britvic is bringing its six-month old kids’ milk and juice drink Freekee Soda under the Tango banner, in advance of a legal challenge.The company would not name its challenger but the Patents Office confirmed that the only other product...
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Britvic’s Freekee goes Strange
Britvic is bringing its six-month old kids’ milk and juice drink Freekee Soda under the Tango banner, in advance of a legal challenge.The company would not name its challenger but the Patents Office confirmed that the only other product...
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Cadbury’s ad for real
Cadbury has been cleared of “misleading” advertising in a poster campaign for its Dairy Milk chocolate brand.The poster pictured a young man and woman kissing, with a bar of chocolate at their side, with the strap-line ‘Real tasty, Real...
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Kraft adds new Lunchables to range
Kraft is expanding its lunchbox offerings with the launch of its Dairylea Lunchables Pitta Pouches in time for the new school term in September. Trade relations manager at Kraft, Easton Millar, said the snacks will have a 20% salt...
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Yazoo shakes its tastes
Campina is set to stretch its kids’ flavoured milk brand Yazoo in two new directions next month with the arrival of two products.It is launching Yazoo Chill milkshakes into chiller cabinets and bringing out the brand’s first yogurt...