Major changes mooted for Nordmilch

Within the next year, Germany’s largest milk processor is to divest its milk drinks, yogurt and dairy dessert production in a streamlining programme that is expected to see the number of products marketed reduced by around one third.

Nordmilch will then concentrate on its lucrative cheese production branch, as well as possibly placing added emphasis on whey and its products, according to the dairy’s chief executive officer Dr Josef Schwaiger, quoted in the German press.
Schwaiger, a 52-year old Austrian who led his country’s top dairy, Berglandmilch, to spectacular financial success before taking over from former Nordmilch CEO Stephan Tomat just five months ago, sees cheese as one of the best chances for the future of his new company, which recorded a turnover of