Archive of all Saputo UK articles – Page 14
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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...
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Cheese is on a roll
It's time once again to get entries in to the Retail Cheese Awards. Julian Hunt caught up with the very first winner to find out how the art of fine selling has changedTwenty years ago, The Grocer and Dairy Crest teamed up to launch a...
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Dairy Crest faces strike action
Dairy Crest could be facing the threat of strike action over its plans to close its final salary pension scheme.The T&G Union has said that it would ballot Dairy Crest workers on the issue, after 2,000 union members at the group backed an...
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Dairy Crest blames rivals for cut
Dairy Crest has blamed rival processors for a decision to cut its milk price to farmers supplying its commodity cheese factories by 0.5ppl.The company said a failure by its competitors to match a price rise it pushed through last year had left...
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Major brands cut back deal volumes
Producers of the UK’s three leading Cheddar brands have all made headway in reducing the volumes of their cheese they sell through price promotions.Dairy Crest has cut the quantity of top Cheddar brand Cathedral City sold on deals from 63.7% in...
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Dairies clash over price claims
Dairy Crest boss Drummond Hall has blasted claims made by rival processor Robert Wiseman Dairies last week that it pays a “significant premium” for milk compared with other dairies.Hall told The Grocer that the matter of milk prices was complex...
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Dairy Crest/Wiseman price fixing suspected
Milk processors Dairy Crest and Robert Wiseman Dairies are at the centre of an OFT probe into suspected price fixing.It remains unclear whether the OFT is also questioning other dairies and major retailers. A spokeswoman refused to reveal the...
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Hit or Miss?
>>How a recent top launch is faringProduct:St Ivel AdvanceCompany:Dairy crestLaunch date:May 2005It has been a busy year for milk suppliers, who have worked hard to breathe new life into the...
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Morrisons triumphs in cheese awards
Morrisons in Woking and Low Sizergh Barn Farmshop in Kendal emerged triumphant in this year's Retail Cheese Awards sponsored by Dairy Crest and The Grocer.The stores were named UK champions in the categories for best multiple and best...
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Simplify cheese says Dairy Crest
Dairy Crest has called on retailers to simplify their cheese aisles and broaden the reach of promotions on offer.In a report on the cheese category, the company says the high number of stock-keeping units (SKUs) in the cheese category is...