All Saputo UK articles – Page 13
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Cathedral City slashes fat to appeal to families
Dairy Crest is launching a reduced-fat version of its market-leading Cathedral City Cheddar to help cheese meet the challenges of Nutrient Profiling and healthier eating. Rolling out this week, Lighter Cathedral City, which is 25% fat -...
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Oakes takes MD role at Dairy Crest
Martin Oakes has been named as managing director of the dairies division at Dairy Crest.Oakes joins Dairy Crest from Somerfield where he was group logistics and IT director for six years. He has previously worked at Safeway, Wincanton and...
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Dairy Crest acquisition moves closer
Dairy Crest's E370m (£250m) acquisition of St Hubert, the French and Italian spreads business of Uniq, has moved a step closer following a positive consultation with the St Hubert workers council.“The required French Works Council...
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First Milk set sights on premium cheese
First Milk has set its sights on building a premium own label cheese business out of the factories it has bought from Dairy Crest. First Milk chief exec Peter Humphreys said there were great opportunities to be found in building up...
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Dairy Crest linked to Uniq
Dairy Crest could be interested in the French spreads business of chilled convenience foods group Uniq.Reports suggest that the dairy company participated in the first round of bidding for the Uniq subsidiary which owns the St Hubert butter...
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First Milk delivers on Dairy Crest purchase
First Milk has bought Dairy Crest's own-label cheese business for nearly £62m. Analysts broadly supported the move but farmers fear it will force them to accept a lower milk price and are considering alternatives. Under the terms...
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Dairy Crest to sell cheese operations
Dairy Crest has announced plans to sell the majority of its retailer brand cheese operations to First Milk for £61.9m.The proposed sale, which is subject to approval from First Milk's members, includes the cheddar creameries at Haverfordwest...
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First Milk eyeing up Dairy Crest own label
Dairy Crest has confirmed that it is in negotiations with First Milk regarding "the possible sale of part of its retailer brand cheese operations". The discussions are "ongoing", said the company, and "there can be no certainty that this will...
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Dairy Crest snaps up Arla's Express arm
Dairy Crest reckons it has created the UK's biggest doorstep milk business with the acquisition of Arla's interests in the middle ground. It announced it had bought Arla's Express Dairies Depot operations for £33m this week, including two...
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Dairy Crest acquires Express Dairies
Dairy Crest has proposed to acquire Express Dairies from Arla Foods for £33m.The deal includes 77 Express Dairies depots, principally in the midlands and north of England, and dairies in Liverpool and Nottingham.In the year to end 30...
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Country Life looks for organic milk growth
Country Life will become the first major brand to enter the organic milk category when it launches into Tesco next month.The butter brand is making its milk debut to take advantage of what brand owner Dairy Crest describes as the fastest...
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Country Life ad sticks knife into rival Anchor
Dairy Crest is spreading controversy in the butter sector, with a print ad for its Country Life brand that contrasts the food miles of a rival with its own British provenance. The ad sticks the knife into Anchor butter - the number two...
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Farmers relieved by Asda milk price hike
Turbulence in the dairy industry continued this week with Asda slashing the shelf price of its British Cheddar cheese by 27% and simultaneously reversing its March price cut on liquid milk. Dairy Crest also cut the price it pays farmers...
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St Ivel defends use of 'clever milk' tag
Dairy Crest said it would continue to promote certain benefits of its St Ivel Advance milk despite the ASA's ruling that its adverts made misleading claims about helping improve children's intelligence. The company said it had amended its...
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Müller aims for bigger share of kids' sector
Müller, the dominant player in the adult yoghurt market, has created a new range to challenge Yoplait Dairy Crest's Petits Filous brand for a bigger share of the children's sector. Launching next month, the sub-brand - called Little Stars...
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Ice-cream Frubes back for summer
Yoplait Dairy Crest (YDC) is reintroducing its ice-cream-style limited edition flavours to its Frubes fromage frais tubes range in anticipation of a hot summer. Three limited edition flavours, Vanilla Scoop, Banana Blast and...
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Frubes' cartoon coolers
Frubes, Yoplait Dairy Crest's fromage frais brand, will sponsor Friday mornings on Cartoon Network for nine weeks as part of a £810,000 kids TV support investment. Two five-second and two ten-second 'Freezing Friday' slots, between...
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The Omega-3 factor nourishes St Ivel Advance with MDC award
Dairy Crest's St Ivel Advance Omega-3 enriched milk was named best dairy beverage at the Milk Development Council's Awards for Dairy Innovation. The company beat off competition from OMSCo, whose Altogether Better organic fresh...
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Major dairies get doorstepping
Three of the UK's biggest dairies are to launch a bid to halt the dramatic decline in the volumes of milk delivered to doorsteps.Co-operative Dairy Farmers of Britain, processor Dairy Crest and Arla Foods division Express Dairies...