All articles by Richard Ford – Page 47
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NewsAdams pulls Kerrygold Cheddar for poor sales
The notoriously competitive Cheddar market has claimed a new casualty, with Adams Foods abandoning its Kerrygold brand cheese in the UK to focus on butters and spreads.
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NewsTesco undercuts Flora with Kerry lookalike
Kerry Foods is going head-to-head with Unilever with a new functional spreads brand that echoes the look and feel of Flora. Exclusive to Tesco, Smart Health is available in two variants - standard and light - and comes in 500g tubs, with...
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NewsGlobal operator ‘set to acquire Cumbrian Seafoods’
Cumbrian Seafoods is likely to fall into foreign hands after being put up for sale, with Pacific Andes Group a strong contender, industry sources have claimed.
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NewsAsda’s milk premium to farmers cut by 20%
Asda cut the premium paid to its liquid milk supply group by 20% despite insisting the milk price war would not come at the expense of its dairy farmers, The Grocer can reveal. One week before it slashed its retail milk prices, Asda...
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NewsSoaring exports to EU boost dairy margins
Exports of British cheese and butter are soaring as suppliers take advantage of favourable exchange rates to seek lucrative margins abroad. Butter exports increased by 40.2% to 9,625 tonnes between January and July this year compared with...
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NewsAsda supply arm IPL quadruples its profits
Asda's strategy of cutting out the middleman by sourcing fresh produce direct appears to be paying dividends. Its direct supply arm, International Produce Limited, made a £6.1m pre-tax profit in the year to 1 January 2011 a £4.6m...
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Dole Europe restructures fresh fruit business
Dole is to shake up to its fresh fruit operations in Northern Europe to better focus on its different product lines and boost growth. The reorganisation will result in the creation of two new divisions - the Tropical Fruit Division will focus....
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NewsPGI status is target for Lea Valley cucumbers
Cucumbers could join the ranks of the Cornish Pasty, Melton Mowbray Pork Pie and Kentish Ale as a food with Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status. Growers are hoping to submit an application for the Lea Valley cucumber, which…
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NewsJohn West campaign to play up provenance
After coming seventh out of eight in Greenpeace’s 2011 tinned tuna league table, John West is boosting its tuna sourcing credentials with a new online feature that allows shoppers to trace each can back to the boat it came from.
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NewsCartoon legends line up to give Müller some wünder stuff
Müller has teamed up with big-name Hollywood animators including Warner Bros and Universal Studios to launch a new £20m ad campaign starring a host of famous cartoon characters.
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Analysis and FeaturesWill the Aylesbury megadairy be delivered on time by Arla?
After a two-year battle, Arla’s bold plan to build a new state-of-the-art dairy has been given the green light. But at what cost? Richard Ford reports
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NewsArla relaunches House of Castello with new ads
Arla is to roll out a major new ad campaign to support the global relaunch of its House of Castello cheese brand and reposition it as the “New World wine” of the speciality cheese category. In the UK, House of Castello which was…
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Axe hangs over Cromer Crab Co
Hundreds of jobs are in doubt at Cromer Crab Co after owner Young’s Seafood said the site was no longer viable.
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Analysis and FeaturesGreenhouse giant: is there more life in Thanet Earth?
Three years after it threw open its greenhouse doors, Thanet Earth is making a profit. Will more such developments follow? Richard Ford reports
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NewsWiseman to introduce ‘greener’ bottle caps
The dairy industry is set to radically increase the use of recycled material in milk bottles thanks to the rollout of a new generation of 'tinted' milk bottle caps. At present, one of the key barriers to increased use of recycled plastic...
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Will government call in Arla Aylesbury bid?
Eric Pickles' communities and local government department is considering calling in Arla's application to build a £150m dairy in Aylesbury, taking away the local council's ability to decide the dairy's fate. The revelation came ahead of...
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NewsCollier’s turns Celtic with Mature Cheddar launch
Fayrefield Foods has extended its overarching Collier's brand beyond Collier's Powerful Welsh Cheddar for the first time by quietly launching a new variant, Collier's Mature Celtic Cheddar. Until now, the dairy giant only sold Collier's...
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NewsRetailers unite to fight campylobacter threat
Eight of the country's biggest food retailers and the three largest chicken processors have joined forces to tackle the most common cause of food poisoning campylobacter in raw meat. Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, The Co-operative...
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NewsCan Fairtrade help UK farmers bag a fairer retail deal?
Within weeks of Tesco escalating the milk wars by rolling out its Creamfields brand to whole and semi-skimmed, the Fairtrade Foundation is working on a groundbreaking initiative with British farmers to see whether elements of the Fairtrade model...
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NewsThanet Earth makes a profit for the first time
Demand for fresh produce from Thanet Earth is outstripping current supply, founder Christopher Mack has claimed, as the UK's biggest greenhouse development turned its first profit since production started in 2008. Thanet Earth Marketing ...