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Arla investing in Upahl yogurt plant
Arla Foods will invest approximately €19 million at its German Upahl plant this year, which will bring the total investment in the site to €70 million over the last three years.
Valio nominated at SIAL for innovation
Five dairy innovations by Valio, the Finnish dairy pioneer, have been selected for SIAL Innovation Selection 2016.
Business & trade, Dairy processing, Dairy science, End products, Ingredients
Nöm reports lower sales
Last year wasn’t very good for Austrian dairy Nöm AG, which achieved sales of €321 million in 2015, 5% lower than the previous year.
Business & trade, Dairy processing, End products, Ingredients
Glenfield Dairy sold to Graham’s
Following the completion of a full strategy review, First Milk has agreed to sell its Glenfield Dairy business based in Fife, Scotland to Graham’s the Family Dairy.
Business & trade, Dairy processing, End products, Ingredients
Nöm moves butter production
Austrian dairy group Nöm is relocating its butter production by the end of the year from Zwettl to Baden, south of Vienna.
Business & trade, Dairy processing, End products, Ingredients
Arla launches Protein yogurt
Arla Foods has launched Arla Protein into the yogurt category. Made from natural ingredients, the quark base yogurt is high in protein and fat-free.
Enter the giants
Validation of the high-growth health opportunity for dairy is coming from Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, says Julian Melletin.
Business & trade, Dairy processing, Dairy science, End products, Ingredients, Packaging
From Dairy 1.0 to Dairy 2.0
Using dairy’s natural health benefits as a selling point is moving the industry into the future, says Julian Mellentin of New Nutrition Business
Business & trade, Dairy processing, Dairy science, End products, Ingredients
Organic dairies open plant in Germany
Not every large-scale dairy in the German cheese sector managed to survive the millennium’s first decade. One casualty was the cooperative Allgäuland in southern Baden-Württemberg. Despite a flourishing export trade with 40% of cheeses going to Italy and 30% to France from an annual output of 33,600 tonnes, the business wasn’t making a profit and […]
Business & trade, Dairy processing, Dairy science, End products, Ingredients
Lake District gets quarky
First Milk’s Lake District brand is moving beyond cheddar with the British launch of Lake District Dairy Co. quark – available in original, lemon and vanilla flavours.
Swiss cheese consumption holds steady
Cheese consumption in Switzerland levelled at 21.28 kg per head in 2012, according to the national statistics office. This is welcome news for Swiss cheese makers because it remains about the same as the previous year – despite higher retail prices all round. Not so welcome is the increase in imported cheeses consumed as part […]
Business & trade, Dairy processing, Dairy science, End products, Ingredients
Biedermann allies with Gläserne in Germany
The Swiss-based Biedermann dairy, an organic food specialist belonging to the country’s largest cheese seller Emmi, has declared a “strategic alliance” with German organic milk processor Gläserne Molkerei. The latter has already established itself as a leading producer of organic dairy products in the northeast of Germany with two modern processing plants, one close to […]
Business & trade, Dairy processing, Dairy science, End products, Ingredients
Protein is dairy’s future
Will 2012 be the year that dairy protein moves from body building to mass market? Julian Mellentin asks.
Business & trade, Dairy processing, Dairy science, End products, Ingredients
Germany stops Muller expansion
Germany’s trade monopolies watchdog has drawn a line through Muller Milk plans to takeover a cheese making company that would give the multinational dairy almost a monopoly in the country’s production of traditional sour milk (Harz) cheese. Nine years ago Muller started producing the typical north German cheese – made from skimmed milk quark and […]
Business & trade, Dairy processing, Dairy science, End products, Ingredients