All Dairy articles – Page 242
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Better for the children
Rachel’s Organic is the latest dairy manufacturer to encourage kids to get the drinking yoghurt habit.Its probiotic Drinking Yoghurt (four for £2.29) follows Munch Bunch Drinky+ and Petits Filous Plus, but is the first organic kids’...
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Dairy Crest blames rivals for cut
Dairy Crest has blamed rival processors for a decision to cut its milk price to farmers supplying its commodity cheese factories by 0.5ppl.The company said a failure by its competitors to match a price rise it pushed through last year had left...
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Italian-inspired facelift for Bertolli
Bertolli – Unilever’s Italian olive oil and pasta sauce brand – is expanding and being given a facelift to emphasise its natural ingredients.New packaging for the Bertolli 500g pasta sauces will be in stores from March, along with a product...
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Jarlsberg’s Irish eye on Britain
Norway’s biggest dairy company, Tine, has set up a manufacturing site in Ireland and a sales office in England so it can boost sales of Jarlsberg cheese within the European Union.Because Norway is outside the EU, it can only export 4,000 tonnes...
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Wholesome products
A growing diversity of health-conscious linesn Tropicana Essentials with Benecol is described as the first-ever juice to help with cholesterol reduction. Available from this month, the product contains the...
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Rich pastry rolled out
Health may be high on the radar for consumers, but Jus-Rol is stressing the importance of luxury when it comes to home baking with the launch of an all-butter pastry range.The frozen pastry comes in puff and shortcrust in 500g blocks (rsp:...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...