Morrisons is to increase what it pays to milk farmers, becoming the latest UK retailer to up its payment amid anger from suppliers. The UK's fourth-largest retailer said it would increase the premium it pays for milk and make an extra ...
Tags: milk payment, milk, dairy manufacturers, dairy
Tangerine Confectionery, the UK firm behind Butterkist popcorn, is to launch ice lollies sold under its Sherbet Dib Dab brand. UK ice cream maker Fredericks Dairies will manufacture the lollies under a licencing deal. While Dib Dab's ...
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Fonterra has struck a deal to buy the processing assets of New Zealand Dairies, which went into receivership last month. Russian baby food group Nutritek acquired a majority stake in New Zealand Dairies in 2008 and aimed to use the ...
Tags: Dairies Assets, receivership
UK dairy co-op First Milk has booked an increase in full-year profits, boosted by earnings from the sale on its shareholding in Wiseman Dairies. In the year to the end of March pre-tax profits climbed to GBP13.3m (US$20.8m) from GBP7.2m ...
Tags: Pre-tax profits, First Milk, milk prices
Dairy Crest has booked a 16% drop in first-half adjusted profits as continued difficulties at its milk unit weighed on the bottom line. The Cathedral City cheese maker said adjusted pre-tax profit fell to GBP19.1m (US$30.5m) for the six ...
Tags: pre-tax profit, Sales drop, milk sector
UK dairy group Dairy Crest said this morning (17 July) its full-year expectations remained "unchanged" despite a "challenging" first-quarter. In its interim management statement, released ahead of today's AGM, Dairy Crest said its dairies ...
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The UK's largest dairy processor Dairy Crest has made a full-year net loss after incurring impairment charges at its dairies business. For the 12 months to the end of March, Dairy Crest made a pre-tax loss of GBP10.1m (US$5.8m) compared ...
Tags: Costs, Profits, dairies business
Shares in Dairy Crest were higher this morning (24 September) after the UK dairy group said its expectations for annual profits had not changed despite a "challenging" first half of the year. In a trading update, Dairy Crest admitted ...
Tags: Dairy, FY profit, H1 problems
Arla Foods and Fonterra have teamed up with Danish analytical solutions provider Foss to develop a screening method to determine whether milk has been tampered with for financial gain. The'fingerprint'-based screening technique will ...
Tags: Arla, Fonterra, Foss, China, Denmark, milk, dairy, safety, melamine
UK milk supplier Robert Wiseman Dairies has insisted it will look to bring more transparency to how it determines the price it pays farmers after a tense summer in the sector. The company has launched plans to work with representatives ...
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Arla Foods is to start producing Anchor butter in the UK next month. The dairy group said it would begin manufacturing Anchor block butter at a production site in Westbury in the UK. "Bringing production of Anchor to the UK is part of ...
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Robert Wiseman Dairies has become the latest UK dairy processor to announce an increase in the price it pays farmers for milk. Wiseman, owned by German yoghurt giant Muller, is to up the price it pays by 2.57p to 29p per litre on 15 ...
Tags: Robert Wiseman Dairies, UK dairy processing, milk, food industry
Dairy farmers in Isle of Wight,a county in England,have introduced a new milk brand which will be produced,processed and packaged in the county. The new brand which will be known as I love Isle of Wight Milk,will be sold in Tesco and some ...
Verallia North America, a manufacturer of glass containers for food and beverage industries, has introduced a new line of yogurt glass jars in the US. The new line features four and six ounce capacity single serve yogurt glass jars. The ...
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Verallia North America, a glass container manufacturer has announced the introduction of a new line of single serve yogurt glass jars for national distribution. According to the US-based Verallia, the new four and six ounce capacity ...
Tags: glass container, single serve yogurt glass jars, packaging