All Dairy articles – Page 263
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The Grocer focus on the dairymen: cheese
TAKING OFF THE WRAPS: BIG IDEAS FOR LITTLE CHEESES Processed cheeses own the second largest share of the UK market, according to the British Cheese Board, which represents 32 speciality cheesemakers. At 51,000t, it's a significant and growing...
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Unilever gets EU green light for low cost rival to Benecol
Unilever's cholesterol lowering spread Flora Pro-activ is poised to go head to head with Benecol in the flourishing functional food market, following EU authorisation. The spread is made with natural plant sterols plant extracts found at low...
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The Grocer focus on the dairymen: Arla
Milking the market for all it's worth Arla's most famous inherited brand has to be Lurpak. The spreadable variant has brought a growing number of younger consumers back from margarine to the dairy fixture, according to business unit controller...
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Intervention: UK stores are open again
Intervention has re-opened in the UK for butter. Declared prices for June 3 and June 10 fell to £180.70 and £177.27 per 100kg respectively for salted butter. Unsalted declared prices were £178.92 and £178.24 per 100kg for the same dates, while the...
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It's big however you measure it
Sir; Your Focus on Lunchbox Takeaways (May 13) provided food for thought, as always. My particular interest is in cheese snacks and I was intrigued by the way this category had been segmented and measured. Clearly, there are two ways of looking at...
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The Morrisons are identical twins with the same pricing down
After last week's out of stock débâcle, thankfully only two stores failed to provide full baskets this week. Tesco, Roborough, had no Home Fries or milk, while chicken and Jacob's Creek wine was missing from Somerfield, Alton. Our shopper at Asda,...
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Laughing and running
The Laughing Cow is running an on pack cinema promotion to coincide with the new Chicken Run movie the latest film from the producers of Wallace and Gromit. Consumers can collect six tokens from standard The Laughing Cow cheese portions (eight...
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Raw milk: Slow start for deliveries
This year has seen a slow start in milk deliveries to dairies. Provisional MAFF figures show a year on year drop of availability of nearly 40 million litres in January and nearly 30 million litres in February. This has been affecting both butter...
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The Grocer Focus on Northern Ireland
Dairy: Catch 22 revenue scenario Northern Ireland's dairy companies are being bruised by a strong pound and squeezed by the mainland multiples says Richard Wright Despite low milk prices times are tough for dairy processors in Northern Ireland....
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In the city: Who is likely to come out on top in the fight f
dairy and cheese businesses? A good old fashioned bidding war broke out over Easter, with rivals fighting for Unigate's St Ivel dairy and cheese businesses. The tension rose throughout the long weekend after Robert Wiseman Dairies and Dairy Crest...
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Dairy: Cheddar supply feels the pinch
Market forces are restricting the supply of UK Cheddar which could lead to higher prices. Consultant Michael Bessey said: "Milk output in the UK was severely depressed from December. The shortfall over levels a year earlier reached a peak of 7% in...
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Quota slump
Milk quota prices have dropped through the 20ppl while leased quota is trading at 4ppl. This is about a third of the average price that would have been paid for it in April 1997. Raw milk was trading at over 23ppl at that time. The drop in quota...
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Dairy: Making a return?
There are growing signs in the UK and Irish Republic that large corporate concerns are increasingly uncomfortable with the margins they can make on commodity products like butter, cheese and skimmed milk powder. Look across the Irish Sea, where...
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Milk: Big spend backs a whole new You
Sainsbury's rebranded home shopping service is just the first in a series of "building blocks" the company will lay in the next few months to boost its e-commerce activity. The development of Sainsbury's to You, launched last week, took part of the...
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Flotation for St Ivel's cows
St Ivel aims to harness interest in health oriented eating with a £5m TV campaign for its Gold brand. The new campaign aims to build on Gold's relaunch in September last year which focused on semi-skimmed milk as a key ingredient. The new ads,...
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The Grocer guide to brokerage:
Land of milk and money IDC Ltd (Independent Dairy Consortium Ltd) Unit 14, Bridgegate Business Centre Gatehouse Way, Aylesbury Bucks HP19 8XW Tel: 01296 488997 Fax: 01296 488268 E-mail: info@idcltd.com Website: www.idcltd.com Key...
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Cheese: Rowcliffe blasts low price mania
Tim Rowcliffe, incoming chairman of the Specialist Cheesemakers' Association, has launched a broadside at supermarkets for concentrating on price at the expense of quality. "For too long the British have been subjected to bland, mass produced cheap...
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Organic gold
Sales are romping away for organic chilled pot desserts. Yeo Valley Organic claims organic yogurt grew 73% last year, a performance outstripped by its own 100% growth. Soaring consumer demand has led to a spate of innovations. Yeo Valley Organic...