Chr Hansen has taken a new approach to fermented milks to make desserts that attract ‘generation Y’: 17- to 35-year-old consumers. It perceives this group - born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s - to include a high proportion of food sophisticates...
Synergy’s recently launched powdered vanilla flavours for high-protein products were designed to deliver high-impact flavour in the challenging sports nutrition segment, where vanilla tops the popularity stakes.
Arla Foods aims to strengthen sustainable supplies by adding 300M litres of owner milk to its supply chain this year and has almost doubled the number of its British farmer owners.
Müller’s new £17M butter-making plant in Market Drayton, Shropshire, reveals the firm’s optimism and confidence in the UK, according to owner Theo Müller.
Müller Dairy is planning £45-50M worth of investment across its UK business and expects eventually to create up to 100 jobs at its Market Drayton site in Shropshire.
Last month Arla Foods Ingredients launched a lactose for dry blends, designed to enable infant formula manufacturers to increase output without compromising safety or requiring major capital investment.
Food ingredients giant Cargill has launched a vegetable protein formulation enabling soft drinks manufacturers to make ‘source of protein’ claims and the company plans further work on proteins in the future.
Food and drink manufacturers face “a big crunch”, as the consequences of the public health and environmental damage associated with the over production of meat and dairy foods begins to bite.
Dairy Crest’s spreads business was hit by fewer butter promotions and higher cream costs, dragging down overall sales, the manufacturer reported in its first half financial figures.
Sternchemie says its spray-dried coconut milk powder offers many benefits for large-scale food preparation. SternCream can be used in wet and dry products, is said to be easy to process, and has a long shelf-life.
Arla Foods Ingredients has launched a processing solution that enables makers of traditional Greek strained yogurts to profit from their acid whey waste stream.
First Milk’s partnership with cheese supplier Adams Foods could create up to 100 new jobs and would represent at least an extra 50,000t of first-year sales for Adams Foods.
Müller Wiseman has safeguarded fresh milk supplies to customers after its ‘advanced’ Hampton Lovett dairy near Droitwich, Worcestershire, was hit by fire earlier this week.
Cost cutting remains a key part of Dairy Crest’s strategy to cope with a challenging market, according to the firm’s trading update for the six months to September 30.
Müller Dairy has acquired Nom Dairy, with its modern yogurt production facility in Telford, Shropshire in a bid to build its presence in the UK own-label yogurt market.
Small-scale farmers are joining forces to boost their bargaining power against the ‘unfair pricing policies’ of large dairy producers, according to the National Farmers Union (NFU).
International Cheese Awards chairman Richard Paul has appealed for sense to prevail over milk pricing in the coming months, so the entire supply chain benefits from price rises.
Much of the £2M Crediton is investing in production will help boost extended shelf-life (ESL) flavoured milk capacity following its management buy-out by Milk Link bosses Neil Kennedy and Tim Smiddy.
Kavli UK “will continue to look for opportunities” to build its strength in added value dairy products, following the acquisition of goats’ milk product processor St Helen’s Farm.
Arla plans to close its Ashby-de-la-Zouch dairy and distribution centre in April 2014, threatening up to 370 jobs, and shift volume to its new Buckinghamshire facility at Aylesbury.
British Retail Consortium (BRC) guidance on allergen labelling contains an endorsement from the Food Standards Agency (FSA), applauding the BRC for its "efforts to achieve greater consistency in allergen labelling and interpretation of the new provisions"....
Müller Wiseman Dairies has appointed Sean Whitfield as its new business unit director – cream, ahead of the autumn opening of Britain’s largest butter plant in Market Drayton, Shropshire.
De-listed Morrisons supplier Richard Clothier, boss of Wyke Farms, is in a head-to-head battle with five other food and drink industry leaders to win Food Manufacture’s Personality of the Year award.
Dairy Crest will make demineralised whey powder at its Davidstow creamery – a key component of baby food, which had significant market potential – it claimed in an interim management statement.
More than 80% of shoppers want food labels that tell them how meat and dairy products were produced, according to new research commissioned by an alliance of pressure groups.
Tetra Pak may be downplaying UK dairy processors’ potential for growth in the flavoured milk market, Andy Smith, UK and Ireland marketing manager at the firm, has claimed.
Dairy Crest is consulting staff on plans to parcel out its milk delivery business in the north west of England to Creamline Dairies and Mortons Dairies in a deal worth £1.15M in cash.
Outgoing Dairy UK director general Jim Begg has hit out at misleading labelling implying all the ingredients of dairy products are sourced from the UK when this is not the case.
Owen Paterson, head of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) claimed Grocontinental made a “major contribution to the local economy” as he opened its £5M frozen food warehouse.
The National Farmers Union (NFU) has upped the pressure on dairy processors to sign its Dairy Industry Code of Best Practice for contractual relations by publishing a name-and-shame list of firms that have refused to sign.
Doubts over Heinz Kendal’s future viability have been raised by the union Unite after the company announced the loss of 45 jobs across production and management there.
Dairy companies will be forced to educate consumers about the real nutritional benefits of their products to counter their demonisation by the Department of Health (DH) backed single hybrid front-of-pack labelling system, according to the Dairy Council.
The greatest opportunities to grow flavoured milk sales globally lie in the ambient category, according to a trends briefing by Tetra Pak president and ceo Dennis Jonsson.
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KMC has developed two CheeseMaker speciality starches that enable producers to make recombined parmesan and other hard cheese alternatives easily and quickly. Traditionally, 12-16 litres of raw milk are necessary to process a parmesan cheese and it needs...
UK Cheddar manufacturers are being hampered by rules that “give the impression” foreign cheese is actually produced in Britain, claims the boss of Dairy Crest.
