All Dairy articles – Page 269

  • News

    It's big ­ however you measure it

    2000-06-03T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-05-27T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-05-20T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-05-20T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-05-06T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-04-29T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-04-29T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-04-22T00:00:00Z

    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?

    2000-04-22T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-04-22T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-04-15T00:00:00Z

    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:

    2000-04-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2000-04-15T00:00:00Z

    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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    Yesterday

    2000-04-08T00:00:00Z

    It seems only yesterday that Eden Vale and St Ivel had the yogurt market virtually to themselves. The two companies set the pace in the 1980s, only to see their share shrink in the 1990s with the growth of Müller, the explosion of new brands and...

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    Organic gold

    2000-04-08T00:00:00Z

    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...

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    Felix Milk

    2000-04-08T00:00:00Z

    My owner was so astounded by the price of Felix milk ­ 59p for 200ml (the equivalent of £2.95 a litre) ­ that she was tempted first of all to keep it for herself and put it in her tea. "It's outrageous, it's more than 10 times the price per ...

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    Graham Norton comes out with a long tube in his hand

    2000-04-08T00:00:00Z

    Comedian Graham Norton stars in a £4m advertising campaign for McVitie's Tubes. Breaking on April 6 and running until June 24, the theme of the campaign (which features Jaffa Cake tubes and Milk Chocolate Digestive tubes) is to encourage people to...

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    ANOTHER GERMAN YOGURT GIANT

    2000-04-08T00:00:00Z

    Following in Müller's footsteps, another German yogurt giant has its sights set on the UK market. Erhmann, Germany's largest fruit yogurt brand [18% share/ACNielsen], has set up a sales and distribution operation in the UK through the Wright...

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    Farmers tell JS what milk costs

    2000-04-01T00:00:00Z

    Milk producers this week convened a top level meeting with Sainsbury management to explain the crisis the dairy industry faces. "Sainsbury can be in no doubt that, the way things are at present, they and other major retailers risk losing their...

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    Dairy Crest marketing chief joins Duchy Originals as md

    2000-04-01T00:00:00Z

    The Prince of Wales' food brand Duchy Originals has appointed Belinda Gooding as its new managing director. She takes up the post in June. Currently the group marketing director at Dairy Crest, Gooding has worked on the launch of its organic cheese...