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DIME GETS RAISIN SIZED MINI VERSION
Kraft Foods is launching its enduring Dime bar into a new format a countline bag of Dime Nuggets. Like their older sibling, Nuggets are individual pieces of crunchy caramel covered in milk chocolate. But each one is only the size of a raisin....
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dairy balance of trade
Emmenthal volume doubles due to rising imports from France Speciality cheese imports smash previous records Despite a 6% drop in December, imports of speciality cheeses last year broke all previous records. Just under 183,000 tonnes were...
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The co-operative created from the merger of The Milk Group a
AG Barr pre-tax profit in the year to January 26 fell 23% to £10.7m. Sales rose 4% from £112m to £116m in the same period. Nestlé and Fonterra Co-operative Group have launched Dairy Partners Americas, the alliance agreed in August last year. The...
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Special has extra choc
Mars' new look is being extended to drinks with a special edition Mars Extra Choc milk drink. Sporting the same new livery as the parent countline chocolate bar (as exclusively revealed in The Grocer, March 16), the new drink boasts 40% extra...
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Vimto is launching a new design for its 500ml PET carbonate
Westbridge Foods is aiming for a pizza' the action in snacking by launching Aldo's Pizza Bars microwaveable snacks in three recipes Triple Cheese, Tuna & Sweetcorn and Spicy Chicken TexMex. Rachel's Organic Dairy has introduced two new low...
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PASTA SALAD DAYS AT GINSTERS
Ginsters launched a series of pasta salads. The three new products are based on its top selling sandwich flavours, chargrilled chicken and bacon, double cheese and onion and prawn. Commercial manager Alistair Simons said: "We wanted to extend our...
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the food chain: milk
Average annual price will be back to little more than 2000's record low of 16.9p Dairy Crest paves the way for more farmer pay cuts After their best year in 2001 since 1998, farmers are now seeing regular cuts in their monthly farm gate prices. ...
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Alan Jones dies
Alan Jones, sales manager for the Cheese Association of Wales (CAWS), died this week while taking part in the Welsh pavilion at Food & Drink Expo at Birmingham's NEC. He was 51. The funeral will be held on Tuesday. The association is part of Cegin...
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McVitie's has added Strawberry Minis to its BN portfolio.
Bernard Matthews is running a spring ad campaign in women's magazines and a year-long campaign in five top slimming titles for its cooked meats range. Crème Tapenade, a blend of soft cheese in Pesto and Green Olive varieties, joins Arla Foods'...
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Sassy sheep goes for a dip
A sassy, rapping sheep is the latest character to appear in a national TV campaign for snack brand The Laughing Cow, to launch new Cheez Double Dippers. On air from this weekend, the campaign is designed to bring the biscuit and cheese dip newcomer...
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Export subsidies boost shocks traders
The European Commission took dairy product traders by surprise at the end of last week by agreeing a major boost to export subsidies for skim and whole milk powder. Exports of both of these products have been well below normal levels since last...
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Relations between farmers and milk processors can be straine
So when they agreed to team up and fund generic ads to boost flagging milk consumption, the White Stuff' was heralded as a shining example of supply chain partners burying respective hatchets and working together for mutual benefit. Eighteen...
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Arla wins front page accolade
Readers of The Grocer have picked Arla's advertisement for Lurpak butter as Front Cover of the Year 2001. Arla brand manager Danny Micklethwaite received the award from The Grocer's display ad director Lorraine Hendle (right) and northern area...
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Tropicana singles out Smoothies
Tropicana is extending its fruit juice brand into another new arena with the launch of three single serve dairy-based Smoothies in May. Building on the company's alliance with yogurt giant Müller, the bottles will also carry the Müller logo. The...
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UK firm clinches Galbani deal
UK private equity firm BC Partners has beaten off competition from Parmalat to buy Italian cheese and cured meat maker Galbani from Danone in a E1.015bn deal. Galbani has a significant presence in the UK market supplying Italian cheeses for...
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McNeil Consumer Nutritionals brought cholesterol-reduction t
Made from a rice, oats and honey base, the bars come in in apricot, raisin and nut and milk chocolate chip and hazelnut variants and all have fewer than 100 calories. The company recommends two to three servings of Benecol each day to get the ...
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Cadbury's Creme Egg x12 Price promotion £3.49 Gondola
Cadbury's Dairy Milk Bar 1kg Price promotion £3.98 Side stack Asda Cadbury's Heroes 1.5kg Price promotion £2.99 Gondola end Safeway Cadbury's Ice Cream Bars 3/4 packs ...
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Processors won't pay for White Stuff
The White Stuff milk campaign is heading for the rocks after processors said they couldn't justify the expense. The Dairy Industry Federation said members had decided not to renew their funding, blaming tough market conditions and competing...
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Glanbia bites back
Irish dairy giant Glanbia is to take on the might of Dairylea by launching a lunchtime snack pack aimed at kids. Munchsters, set to hit shelves from the beginning of next month, are resealable plastic pods which contain wafer thin strips of ham or...
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The Laughing Cow doubles up
Bel UK is putting £2m behind the launch of Laughing Cow Cheez Double Dippers snack. TV and cinema ads, instore activity and PR will back the new cheese snack which combines breadsticks, a creamy cheese dip and crispy bacon bits (rsp: £1.69,...