Archive of all Saputo UK articles – Page 16
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Champions of own label
The Grocer has revealed this year’s best own label suppliers – as voted for by buyers. Glenmorangie, Robert McBride, Hazlewood Foods, Premier Foods, Monkhill and Toms Confectionery, Arla and Dairy Crest, Green Isle and Garden Isle, Gerber...
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Yop seeks a place at breakfast table
Yogurt drink Yop is getting its first TV campaign in a bid to make the brand a breakfast table staple for teenagers.Owner Yoplait Dairy Crest is investing £3m in the push, which breaks next week, about half the brand’s current value at the...
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Lattimore to retire after 32 years in dairy industry
David Lattimore, managing director for specialist businesses at Dairy Crest, is to retire on February 6. He was responsible for building relationships with direct suppliers. Graham Osborne, direct supply director, will take responsibility for...
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Vitalite is next target
Vitalite will be the next brand in Dairy Crest’s stable to be given an image overhaul as the dairy giant revamps products acquired from Uniq last year.Speaking as the company unveiled a sharp rise in first half profit driven by growth from...
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Not for Everybody, then
Yoplait Dairy Crest has said it has no immediate plans to extend a probiotic yogurt drink called Everybody, currently on sale in Ireland and Northern Ireland, into the UK.Launched by Yoplait’s Irish franchisee, Glanbia, the drink is the...
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Princes buys Crest juice
Dairy Crest has sold its own label chilled juice business in Kidlington to Princes as part of its strategy to focus on added value and branded operations.The £11m deal follows the closure of its butter and powder ingredients business in...
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Dairy Crest sells juice plant
Dairy Crest has sold its chilled drinks business to Princes for £11m to focus on developing its spreads and flavoured milk.Dairy Crest said the sale of own label juice operations at Kidlington, Oxfordshire, would incur a one-off charge of...
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In Profile: Q&A with Gerry Roads, Marketing Director, Yoplait Dairy Crest
Describe your career to date I began as a sales rep with Procter & Gamble in the Birmingham and Coventry area. After a year of driving round with leaking...
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Cool debut for Fimbles
Children's TV stars Fimbles are set to make their debut in the chiller cabinet on a new range of Fruit Finders from Yoplait Dairy Crest. The pots of fromage frais have fruit purée centres and are aimed at the two to four-year-olds that form the...
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New executives for Dairy Crest
Dairy Crest has appointed Alastair Murray as finance director with effect from September this year.Murray, who replaces Ian Laurie, has been finance director at The Body Shop for the past four years and also gained experience in edible...
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a round-up of the hottest recent action in FMCG
spreading the word n Dairy Crest plans to revitalise the Utterly Butterly, Vitalite and St Ivel Gold spreads it bought from Uniq last year with new marketing campaigns. n The profile boosting forms part of a strategy to focus on added-value...
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Thornton joins board
Peter Thornton, managing director of Dairy Crest Spreads, will become an executive managing director of Dairy Crest next month. Chairman Simon Oliver said: "I am delighted to welcome Peter to the board. He will oversee our spreads and liquid...
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Executive moves at Dairy Crest
Dairy Crest has appointed Peter Thornton to the board as an executive managing director, with effect from April 1.Meanwhile, Chris Roberts, executive MD since joining Dairy Crest following the acquisition of the Unigate dairy and cheese...
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Cheese please
This year's Retail Cheese Awards judges discovered new standards in presentation, says Jac Roper S ay cheese! For the eight winners of the 12th annual Retail Cheese Awards, sponsored by Dairy Crest and The Grocer, there is plenty to smile about....
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Dairy Crest
is upbeat Double digit growth in Dairy Crest's added value business during the first half was tempered by difficult conditions in commodity areas. Dairy Crest boss Drummond Hall remained upbeat about the company's prospects, but said trading...
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With so much competition in the licensing market, one way to
Yoplait Dairy Crest has gone down this route and launched a range of Andy Pandy fromage frais in September. Jennie Dettmer, group brand manager, says: "Our aim within children's licensing is to secure classics that hold longevity and broad appeal,...
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Dairy Crest now leads in taste'
Elaine Watson Dairy Crest has moved into second place in the butters and spreads market behind Unilever Bestfoods after snapping up Uniq's branded spreads division in an #86.5m deal. Chief executive Drummond Hall claimed the deal, adding Utterly...
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Our basket of shares has now lost 10% of the original #1,000
Morrisons shares put on 18p and Unilever 21p but, of the retailers, Sainsbury took a hammering in September as its price dropped by 36p. Cadbury Schweppes' shares fell 25p and Dairy Crest dropped 51p. Sainsbury is not looking good, in spite of its...
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Dairy Crest sell Westway site
Chilled foods group Dairy Crest has sold its former milk processing plant Westway in London for £18m in cash.CGNU and Commercial Union have bought the site which Dairy Crest vacated in January. The approved developer is Helical...
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Suppliers replenish our basket
In the current depressed financial climate, The Grocer's basket of shares has taken an upward turn - we've made a whole £4m this month.Despite most of our companies recording a loss, gains by Somerfield, Associated British Foods, Dairy Crest,...