All Dairy articles – Page 266
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Dairy: New contract breaks the mould of 80:20 rule
The current calendar year still shows every sign of finishing with Milk Group average auction prices for December running at 27.7ppl. But whether the quota year will finish on such a high note is not guaranteed. The present physical shortages of...
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Dairy: NI milk businesses link
Irish dairy group Golden Vale and Express Dairies of the UK have agreed to combine their liquid milk business in Northern Ireland under the banner of Dale Farm Dairies. This will be owned 80% by Express, 20% by Golden Vale which is transferring the...
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Dairy: Axis talks Aeron
Milk producer co-op Axis, the Midlands successor to Milk Marque, is to enter exclusive talks to buy Aeron Valley Cheese from Milk Marque. While some potential bidders were put off by cumbersome HGV access, cheese packing alternatives will...
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ASA: CLAIM FOR ACTIMEL REJECTED
The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint from the Fruit and Vegetable Information Bureau that a magazine ad for Danone's probiotic yogurt Actimel was misleading. The ad showed Actimel next to an apple and asked Which is more...
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The Grocer focus on vegetarian food: product round-up
Top tips on recently launched products likely to make money, selected by The Grocer Focus teams Italian style cheese from Twineham Grange Farms Rsp: £13.75/kg Why will it sell? Cheaper than parmesan, this hard premium cheese is made to an...
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Cheesemaking: Coins in the Fountain
Hawes Creamery, the home of Wallace and Grommit branded Wensleydale cheese, has acquired Fountains Dairy. The purchase gives Hawes md David Hartley the much-needed packing and cheesemaking capacity he would otherwise have needed to build at Hawes. ...
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SIAL show review: An order after ten minutes
The honour of winning one of the first orders went to cheese supplier South Caernarvon Creameries and its export agent Singleton's Dairies. Within 10 minutes of the show opening on Sunday, Singleton's sales manager John Carr had sold 500 cases of...
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Dairy: SMP strength leaves more intervention butter
The strong demand for skim milk powder in third countries has cleared out EU intervention stocks and nearly doubled intervention butter stocks in 12 months. The 70,000 tonnes buffer stocks are ahead of last year's 43,377t position. PSA stocks are...
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Brussels report: Cap cash cut
Large cuts in export subsidies on skim milk powder have been agreed by the EU dairy management committee on a proposal from the European Commission to exploit a rising world market and a falling euro exchange rate. Export restitutions have been cut...
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Drums are banged
KP Snacks has given its Mini Cheddars and Mini Garlic Baguettes drums a facelift to promote consumer trial. It plans to maximise sales over the Christmas peak with the second redesign of the packs this year. The new look Cheddars and Baguettes...
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Superlife revamped
Flavoured milk drink Superlife has been relaunched by brand owner Lancashire dairies after 11 years on the market. The repackaged and reformulated brand is now free from artificial colouring and has been enriched with calcium and vitamins B2 and...
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The Grocer guide to careers: How to get a job in manufacturi
Walk into almost any supermarket north of the border and you'll find milk and cream from Robert Wiseman Dairies. Founded in 1947 as a small Scottish family business, the company has expanded enormously in recent years to become one of Britain's...
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Republic of Ireland: Protesters defiant as blockade ruled il
A confrontation is under way in the Irish Republic between multiples and farmers over cut price milk, with producers blockading a dairy which has been supplying Dunnes Stores. The Irish Competition Authority won a High Court injunction in Dublin...
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Milk: SMP stocks levelled
The final disappearance of remaining intervention stocks of skimmed milk powder (SMP) in Belgium, Ireland and Scandinavia means that the market has not just cleared but most manufacturers are sold forward for the rest of this year. The European...
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DUBLIN CENTRE STORE FOR LIDL
German discounter Lidl is to add a new competitive twist to the sector with its first Dublin city centre store. It is to become the anchor tenant in a new shopping mall planned for Moore Street, just a few hundred yards from the Dublin outlet...
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Raw milk: Processor rises blasted as derisory' by the NFU
Multiples are paying more to processors with Asda making it a condition of supply British dairy farmers are furious with the outcome of the latest set of raw milk prices offered by processors. The National Farmers' Union has branded Dairy Crest's...
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Milk: Farm gate prices fall for fourth consecutive year
Farm gate prices for milk have been dropping for four years in succession, according to Ministry of Agriculture figures, In the first half of this year the average price was 15.88p a litre, 35% down on the first half of 1996 and 12% down on last...
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Milk: NFU's Bennett warns of dairy industry collapse
Farmers need 22p a litre to survive' The National Farmers' Union has warned that the UK dairy industry could collapse before Christmas because farmers are still being paid less for milk than it costs to produce. The report British Milk What...
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BEEF: Butter and butchery still closely linked trades
Milk price rise highlights dairy sector's role in meat industry Meat buyers dependent on home produced beef supplies may have a slightly more secure trading outlook following the latest round of milk price increases, led by Asda and Safeway....
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Olivio spread buttered up in bid to get more taste appeal
Van den Bergh Foods' Olivio brand a pioneer of the olive oil based spread sector is going retro with the launch of Olivio with Butter in a traditional style block format. This may seem an unusual move as it makes the brand look similar to more...