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Lactalis inaugurates new whey drying tower at Verdun plant
The new tower allows the production of 30,000 tonnes of whey powder intended for the food industry, marketed under the Flowhey brand.
Lactalis unseats Nestlé in 2021 Global Dairy Top 20
Rabobank’s annual Global Dairy Top 20 report shows that in 2021, privately held Lactalis unseated long-time industry titan Nestlé as the world’s largest dairy company.
Digital dairy project awarded £21m of funding
Led by Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), the project aims to create 600 new jobs in South-West Scotland and Cumbria.
Lactalis Canada buys Agropur yogurt business
Lactalis Canada, a subsidiary of Lactalis Group, has reached a definitive agreement with Agropur Cooperative to acquire all shares of its Canadian yogurt business, Ultima Foods.
Enjoying the cheese
News comes that Canadian cheese maker Saputo is exporting the UK’s own Cathedral City cheddar cheeses to not only Canada, but the US. It is good to know that more tasty cheddar will be available across the pond, but as specialist and artisan cheese makers know, it’s been there for a while, in both domestic and imported formats. At any rate, I feel that better cheese lifts all palates, to paraphrase a saying.
Lactalis to buy Kraft Heinz cheeses in US
French dairy giant Lactalis plans to buy several of Kraft Heinz’s US cheese businesses for $3.2 billion.
Digital dairy project led by Scotland’s Rural College receives significant funding
A £50,000 fund for the Strength in Places project will help to establish South-West Scotland and Cumbria as the leading region for advanced, sustainable and high-value dairy processing.
2019 Global Dairy Top 20
The latest annual Rabobank survey of the world’s largest dairy companies highlights the giants of one of the world’s most valuable food sectors.
Lactalis in Omira peace offering
Lactalis is offering a proposal to resolve a conflict that the company has with Omira Oberland Milchverwertung.
Whey and lactose on track for growth
In developed countries, a clear product trend of adding value to the whey pool has become apparent as high-end protein product.
Dairy Farmers of America still tops in IFCN processor list
IFCN, the Dairy Research Network, has published the IFCN top 20 list of milk processors around the globe. Published every second year, the list shows the market share of the biggest milk processing giants. In 2018, the top 20 milk processors collected 211 million tonnes of milk, equating to 25.4% of all produced milk worldwide. […]
Moving around in the top 20
The Rabobank annual report on the Top 20 global dairy companies always makes for interesting reading.
Global Dairy Top 20 – A Shuffling of the Deck Chairs report
According to RaboResearch’s latest Global Dairy Top 20 – A Shuffling of the Deck Chairs report, dairy price recovery in 2017 has positively affected the combined turnover of the top 20 companies, which, in 2017, was up 7.2% on the year in US dollar terms and 5.1% in euro terms.
Lactalis has agreed to acquire siggi’s
Siggi’s, the US based maker of Icelandic style skyr yogurts with “simple ingredients, not a lot of sugar” has been purchased by dairy giant Lactalis.