All Dairy articles – Page 268
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Lurpak enters flavours
Mary Carmichael Arla Foods is spreading its Lurpak brand into flavoured butters with the launch of a three-strong range. The newcomers mark only the third brand extension in the butter stalwart's 101-year history, and follow the...
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Additional Glanbia role
Jim Cooney, chief executive of Glanbia Foods' UK procurement company Glanbia Milk, has also become deputy chief executive of Glanbia Foods UK to target ongoing development in the hard cheese market. The group said the post was a newly created role...
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Fish cake arrivals
Birds Eye is continuing its bid to put the Enjoy! frozen meals d颢cle behind it by demonstrating its continued commitment to what it does best. The frozen foods specialist is launching two new fish cakes  smoked haddock, cheese & leek, and...
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Big five bow to Gill over milk
Elaine Watson The top five multiples have all separately agreed to pay an extra 2p a litre for milk on the understanding that the cash is passed on down the chain to farmers. The move follows a series of individual, top level meetings...
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Onken sets Biowild on Muller territory
Yogurt brand Onken is downsizing  to offer single-serve pots for the first time. The move will pitch it against the likes of market leader Muller which currently dominates the sector with Muller Corners and Mullerlight. Onken said its...
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Snack brand's offensive
Simon Mowbray Golden Vale is to have a snack attack with its children's Cheestrings brand, launching three new products next month. Heading the line-up of new offerings will be Attack-a-Snak, an any time treat targeted at the light snacking...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...