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”.
R&R Ice Cream will play a central role in the consolidation of the European ice cream market over the next decade as smaller players struggle to compete in a market dominated by a handful of major supermarkets, its boss has predicted.
The UK definition of 'ice cream' must be brought in line with the rest of Europe if the Food Standards Agency (FSA) wants manufacturers to make meaningful progress on saturated fat reduction, according to a leading supplier.
Dairy Crest will pump the best part of £25m into its factories this year as it embarks on the first stage of a three-year, £75m capital expenditure programme.
The future of unpasteurised cheese could be put in jeopardy if tighter controls are introduced to stem the tuberculosis epidemic spreading through the UK dairy herd.
The amount of time and money Office of Fair Trading (OFT) officials have spent pursuing their investigation into alleged price fixing in the dairy industry is “quite ridiculous”, according to a leading competition lawyer.
Soy has become a popular alternative to milk derivatives, largely due to the growing number of consumers suffering from allergies to milk components such as lactose and milk protein.
Baker Perkins is launching a new series of cooking systems to handle every kind of sugar confectionery. Modular units have been configured to provide an efficient, automatic solution for a wide range of outputs.
Dairy manufacturers and supermarkets will receive a welcome boost to their coffers in the form of a rebate from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) this summer after the watchdog agreed to reduce fines in its price-fixing probe.
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Growing the meat and milk substitute markets and cutting red meat in ready meals are key proposals in a preliminary report targeting the food supply...
Milk Link, the UK's largest producer of cheese, has installed a modern fully automated block-forming system at its Taw Valley Creamery in Devon. The...
Rising costs coupled with consumers cutting their spending led to the 100 job losses at Yeo Valley's Cannington dairy, according to the organic food...
If dairy and meat products are to get special treatment under the nutrient profiling system enshrined in the Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation,...
