Archive of all Saputo UK articles – Page 9
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NewsWrite-downs send Dairy Crest £10m into the red
Dairy Crest has plunged to a £10m loss after writing down the value of its dairies business.
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NewsTroubled Dairy Crest takes axe to field sales team
Dairy Crest has axed a quarter of its field sales team, as it retreats from supplying milk to the fiercely competitive middle-ground market.
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NewsDairy Crest cuts milk price for contracted farmers
Dairy Crest has announced a 2p per litre cut to the price paid to farmers on its standard contract, as it continues to try to shore up its struggling liquid milk business.
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Comment & Opinion
Dairy Crest is doing the right thing
Dairy Crest’s announcement of plant closures and lost retail business is understandably of major significance to dairy farmers.
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Arla reclaims Tesco deal from snubbed Dairy Crest
Arla has triumphed over Dairy Crest by winning back the Tesco business it lost to the company almost 18 months ago.
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Dairy Crest rocked by loss of Tesco milk deal
Dairy Crest has lost its contract to supply liquid milk to Tesco, less than 18 months after gaining a supply foothold with the nation’s biggest retailer.
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Analysis & FeaturesSoaring costs create crushing climate for milk processors
It’s no secret that life in UK liquid milk is tough. Rising input costs, fierce competition for supply and supermarket price wars have put processor margins under continuing strain.
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Dimbleby calls on Dairy Crest to donate disused site to community
A lobby group fronted by BBC presenter Jonathan Dimbleby has launched a six-month campaign to bring a disused Dairy Crest site in Totnes into community ownership.
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ProfilesTaylor to leave Dairy Crest procurement role
Dairy Crest’s group milk procurement director Mark Taylor is to leave the dairy giant at the beginning of next year.
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NewsDairy Crest unveils online Chedds game
The tie-up between Dairy Crest’s Chedds brand and Cartoon Network has kicked off with an online game featuring the characters of the Chedds TV ad.
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Smaller, greener tubs for Dairy Crest spreads
Dairy Crest is overhauling the packaging of its spreads portfolio in a bid to address growing consumer concerns about packaging waste and to provide a more user-friendly tub.
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NewsVitalite pledges a return to Sainsbury’s
Dairy Crest has pledged to do its utmost to get Vitalite back on Sainsbury’s shelves after the dairy-free spread was delisted last month. Sainsbury’s stopped stocking Vitalite spread less than 18 months after it went into stores in May…
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NewsClover Lighter gets OAPs to sing praises
Dairy Crest is launching a new TV push for its Clover Lighter dairy spread, featuring a choir of eccentric old-age pensioners. The ad, which debuts on 8 October during ITV1's The X Factor, sees the choir perform a version of A Tribe...
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NewsFrijj flaunts freshness with blue bottle caps
Dairy Crest is adding a light blue cap to bottles of Frijj to emphasise the milk shake's freshness, part of a wider redesign to boost the brand's on-shelf impact. Bottles bearing the new caps which replace white ones will be in-store...
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Profiles
The Human Angle: Rachel Baldwin, Dairy Crest
We have offered all employees the opportunity to take a paid day off a year to volunteer for a local charity. We are also piloting 'self-development' days, where employees are encouraged to take two days per year to invest time in themselves.
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NewsAll four, one: M&S farmers get collective
Four M&S dairy farmers from Dorset have clubbed together to create a collective buying and accounting system in a bid to cut costs and improve efficiency. The farmers, all of whom supply M&S through Dairy Crest, will share…
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NewsDairy Crest buys cooking oil maker MH Foods
Dairy Crest has swooped to buy cooking oil and salad dressing maker MH Foods. The deal is worth £13m and hands Dairy Crest control of the Fry Light cooking oil brand.
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Jug It milk bag jugs get Tesco listing
Jug It, the reusable milk bag jug from Dairy Crest, has been listed in 270 Tesco stores following a 10-store trial.
The jugs along with Country Life milk bags started rolling out into Tesco stores at the end of June. Jug It is already… -
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Davidstow Cheddar for marketing push
Dairy Crest will highlight the Cornish heritage of its Davidstow Cheddar this summer as it prepares to launch the brand's biggest marketing push to date.The company has teamed up with The Guardian and Michelin-starred chef Nathan Outlaw...