Dairy

Opinion

Too COOL by far? Common sense and country-of-origin labelling

01-Aug-2010 - Recent announcements about the future of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) dealt with the handover of country of origin labelling (COOL) to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).

First Milk to share storage space and cut transport costs

01-Aug-2010 - Storage and distribution firm Grocontinental has clinched an agreement granting dairy business First Milk the use of its recently completed £3m, 7,432m2 multi-temperature warehouse to store its cheese.

Rachel's sold to French dairy giant

28-Jul-2010 - Welsh dairy company Rachel’s has been sold to French dairy firm Groupe Lactalis.

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Dairy Crest Q1 trading boosted by ‘milk in bag’ success

20-Jul-2010 - Dairy Crest's first quarter figures are “in line with expectations”, with sales boosted by the success of new patented milk bags that Tesco is now trialling.

Arla appoints project director for 1bn litre 'super dairy'

20-Jul-2010 - Arla Foods has appointed a project director to oversee the construction of its much-anticipated 1bn litre 'super dairy' in Greater London.

City: Will Robert Wiseman build another dairy?

08-Jul-2010 - Speculation over whether Robert Wiseman is planning to build another dairy in southern England has intensified following the publication of its interim management statement.

Nestlé: COOL extension is impractical and unwelcome

05-Jul-2010 - Lobbying to prevent the extension of country of origin labelling (COOL) to all meat and poultry products - even when used as minor ingredients in complex processed foods - has stepped up a gear as major food manufacturers have continued to question its feasibility.

Make milk-based drinks more youth-friendly, says Dairy Council

02-Jul-2010 - The dairy industry needs to accelerate the development of innovative new products that will appeal specifically to young people, according to a new expert panel created by The Dairy Council.

Cream of the crop in Eden

02-Jul-2010 - The premier teaching establishment for the dairy sector has opened at Reaseheath College in Cheshire. Rod Addy looks at what it has to offer

Industry fights EU proposals for unnecessary labelling

02-Jul-2010 - Food industry trade groups are uniting to fight EU labelling proposals that would heap extra work and costs on food processors and potentially confuse consumers.

Kerrygold Company and North Downs Dairy sign merger deal

02-Jul-2010 - Irish Dairy Board subsidiaries Kerrygold Company and North Downs Dairy are to merge their operations to create a £335m business called Adams Foods.

Danone: We axed Shape satiety yogurt because of the taste

01-Jul-2010 - Danone finally ditched its Shape Feel Fuller for Longer yogurt because it could not get the taste right, but insists it still believes there is a market for products promoting satiety.

Reverse osmosis saves cash and energy for Arla

25-Jun-2010 - Arla Foods is confident it can recoup the costs of new technology enabling it to use borehole instead of mains water at its Settle Creamery within 12-18 months.

Comment

Europe must keep cool over country of origin labelling

22-Jun-2010 - Always read the small print. Good advice and nowhere more so than in food labelling with today’s increasingly savvy consumers demanding to know what’s in their food, where it came from and what it’s going to do to them.

Wiseman: We could recover from systems failure in one hour

21-Jun-2010 - Were Robert Wiseman Dairies’ East Kilbride office to go up in smoke, staff could be relocated to a data centre in Glasgow and re-establish financial, operational and supply chain systems within an hour.

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Dairy prices on the rise, warns Uniq

15-Jun-2010 - There has recently been “a significant increase in dairy prices, and in particular in the price of cream”, which will have to be passed on to customers, chilled food maker Uniq has warned

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Dairy Crest slashes stake in Wexford Creamery

14-Jun-2010 - Dairy Crest has sold the bulk of its stake in Irish milk, cheese and cream maker Wexford Creamery to help pay off debts and reduce its exposure to “volatile commodity markets”.

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Milk Link profits up 1.7%, sales up 0.5%

09-Jun-2010 - Dairy processor Milk Link has reported a modest 1.7% rise in earnings* to £28.7m on sales up 0.5% to £547m in the year to April 3.

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Arla launches new cream pot

08-Jun-2010 - Arla Foods has marked the start of commercial cream production at its new £70m creamery in Leeds with the launch of new injection-moulded, in‐mould label pots.

Dewlay cheese firm embarks on wind turbine project

04-Jun-2010 - Work has begun to erect a wind turbine at a Dewlay's Lancashire cheese-producing site, making it the first UK cheese maker to be powered by renewable energy, claimed the manufacturer.

Freshway Dairy faces fine for immigration offences

04-Jun-2010 - Freshway Dairy could face a fine of up to £270,000, after 24 men were arrested at its manufacturing site for immigration offences.

Workers win

04-Jun-2010 - Hundreds of former Dairy Farmers of Britain (DFB) workers are claiming up to eight weeks' pay from the government, after a recent tribunal finding awarded them compensation.

Dairy sector set to meet 2010 environmental impact target

04-Jun-2010 - The dairy supply chain is on track to meet its 2010 Milk Roadmap targets, and could raise the bar even higher for the future.

Yeo Valley saves cash through energy-saving initiatives

04-Jun-2010 - Organic dairy manufacturer Yeo Valley has saved £30,000 and 368t of carbon dioxide by replacing old compressors with more energy-efficient versions and installing variable speed drives on condenser units.