All Dairy articles – Page 247
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Sluggishness In The Organic Sector - For Some
One arena in which category giant Muller has failed to shine is organic yogurts, as its first foray into the burgeoning sector - Muller Organic - was pulled from shelves in June this year.The company points out that the brand captured average...
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Tumbling Markets
Given the lifecycle of the dairy cow, milk producers add a further element of stability and the operation of a dairy farm is a long-term commitment  even though that long-term is moving towards fewer but larger dairy herds. Yet the past year...
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Reshaping of an industry
So what has driven all the activity in the last 12 months? The drivers behind the sale of Northern Foods' Ski and Munch Bunch brands, and Uniq's branded yogurts and spreads are pretty simple, say analysts. "Uniq's position in yogurts was not...
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In love with milk...and vindicated at Droitwich
New business continues to flow in. In 12 months, the company has pulled off a coup by striking a supply deal with Sainsbury, the only multiple not on its books, and picked up a clutch of new contracts to supply the middle ground milk market through...
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Difficult Early Years
The Soil Association says many of its members are being driven out of business because the price paid to producers for organic milk has dropped from 29.5p a litre last year to 18p, a third less than the production cost. So it is encouraging farmers...
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Multiples Look To More New Product Development
The major supermarkets believe that new products have stimulated the market and would like to see even more being done to reinvigorate the sector.Christopher Sellars, trading manager for yellow fats at Sainsbury, says: "The butter market will...
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Goats milk loses cottage feel
Across the world more people drink goats milk than that of any other animal and it appears the habbit is catching on over here.While goats milk remains a niche market, it is now not uncommon to find cartons of the product stocked alongside...
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The French connections
The latest UK cheese import statistics for May show that shipments of speciality cheeses into the UK are facing mixed fortunes. Overall, imports are down 6% in the first five months of this year. The main area of cutback this year is with...
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The colours of their money
Fresh fuel is to be given to flavoured milks by the ambitions of Nestle. The food giant is restructuring its impulse drinks division in preparation for an assault on the children's market via its Nesquik brand (The Grocer,August 24,p15). Nestle...
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Cheese is more pleasing
After a tough time in the nineties, cheese is bouncing back, showing healthy growth. The total cheese market is worth £1.4bn and is growing at 5.6% (ACNielsen Scantrak). Retailer brands still account for the vast majority of sales, with pre-packed...
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Tesco to double Scottish cheese levels
Tesco is preparing to increase its Scottish cheese orders by more than double the existing level. The retailer said it would be taking nearly 8,000 tonnes a year from McLelland of Glasgow, which will push the supplier's share of Tesco's UK...
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Challenging Number One
Action has been hotting up in the £1.3bn chilled yogurt and desserts market in the last few months, and not just in product innovation. Some well-established brands have been changing hands, with Nestle acquiring Ski and Munch Bunch from Northern...
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Top Ten Butter Brands
1 Lurpak Spreadable Butter2 Flora Pro-activ Light Spread 3 Flora Light Spread 4 Clover Std Dairy Spread 5 Anchor Butter 6 St Ivel Utterly Butterly D/Sp 7 Olivio 8 ...
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A case of the blues...which means NPD, and hands on fun
But retailer behaviour is also crucial. Glanbia supplies to most of the major multiples in the UK, including Asda, Safeway, Somerfield, Kwik Save, Iceland, Sainsbury and Marks & Spencer. Development work at its groundbreaking Malpas Centre of Cheese...
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Driving big brand value...and keeping up with the pace inNPD
In the last year it recorded double digit growth for its hugely popular Cathedral City and Davidstow cheeses, top-selling dairy spread Clover and its Frijj and Yoplait drinks. Cathedral City, in particular, has seen sales double in the last five...
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Flavour of the alternative
Anew set of players is muscling in on the dairy sector but there's not a drop of milk involved. Dairy alternative producers, making everything from substitute milk to butter-style spreads and ice cream, are making healthy returns on growing sales...
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Butter flies high again
After years of slow decline, it looks as though butter is biting back. The joint venture between the manufacturers of the two leading brands, Lurpack and Anchor, and the popularity of spreadable butters among consumers, have increased hope that...
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dairies take 3.4% more milk
UK milk deliveries to dairies showed a 3.4% increase during the first half of this year according to the latest analysis from DEFRA. Exports of milk for processing to dairies outside the UK recovered by 30% after last year's FMD difficulties. ...
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n JS builds links
Sainsbury is forging stronger links with the dairy industry. The retailer has founded the Sainsbury's Dairy Communications Forum involving Express Dairies, Express Milk Partnership and other farmers' and consultative groups. As part of the...
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Anchor pulls a cheddar that failed to function
Mary Carmichael Arla has pulled the plug on Anchor Inner Balance bio cheddar, admitting that its attempt to bring functional properties to the UK cheese market has bombed. Launched a year ago by New Zealand Milk before a joint venture with...