Lifeway Foods has booked a 23% jump in fourth quarter sales, thanks to growing distribution and awareness of its Kefir, ProBugs and BioKefir lines. The company said gross sales rose to US$23m, up from $18.7m in the comparable period of ...
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Global food commodity prices dropped back in 2012, with dairy and sugar showing the sharpest declines, new figures from the United Nations' Food & Agriculture Organisation show. Despite ongoing concerns around rising food prices, the UN ...
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US-based Promised Land Dairy is expanding the distribution of its Midnight Chocolate milks to nine new Kroger grocery regions. The expanded distribution includes the following areas - Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, ...
In December, the consumer price index (CPI) went up by 2.5 percent year-on-year. The prices grew by 2.5 percent in cities and 2.5 percent in rural areas. The food prices went up by 4.2 percent, while the non-food prices ...
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The former CEO of Milk Link,Neil Kennedy,has said his decision to leave his role at new parent firm Arla Foods has nothing to do with the dairy giant's strategy for the recently-acquired business. Kennedy,who is to leave his post as SVP ...
Arla Foods has said it aims to double ingredients sales in the next five years as part of a new business strategy designed to increase the dairy co-operative's presence in emerging markets. Arla said today (11 January) it wants global ...
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Yashili International,a manufacturer of infant milk formula products in China,plans to establish a milk processing facility in New Zealand with an investment of CNY1.1bn($175m). Yashili New Zealand Dairy,a a wholly-owned subsidiary of ...
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Production staff at Dairy Crest's Fenstanton plant in Cambridgeshire are expected to clock off for the last time today (Friday, January 11), in line with its plans announced last April to close the site with the loss of 248 jobs. Dairy ...
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Yashili International is to spend CNY1.1bn(US$176.7m)to build a 52,000-tonne capacity dairy in New Zealand,via its recently established subsidiary in the country. Yashili New Zealand Dairy Co has already signed a conditional purchase ...
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Spin trim machinery manufacturer Maer has announced the launch of its new concept in neck-to-neck technology,the NTN850. Maer's new NTN850 equipment is part of its NTN or'neck-to-neck'series for double bottle bodies and is built on a ...
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Switzerland-based dairy processor Emmi has acquired a 70% stake in the AVH Dairy Trade, a Netherlands-based goat and sheep milk products manufacturer, for an undisclosed amount. The move is a part of Emmi's efforts to reinforce its ...
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Gluten-free foods specialist Van's Natural Foods has launched a line of cereals, crackers and snack bars. California-based Van's said today (9 January) the range will hit grocery aisles from this month. The group has also launched ...
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News that Arla Milk Link is cutting its farmgate milk price will come as a "bitter and unacceptable" blow to its farmer suppliers, the National Farmers Union has warned. Arla Milk Link, which was formed following the acquisition of Milk ...
US milk processor Golden Guernsey, once owned by Dean Foods, has gone into administration. Owner OpenGate Capital yesterday (8 January) announced the Wisconsin-based firm had filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in Delaware bankruptcy court. ...
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Toray Membrane USA, Inc. has expanded its US operations. Toray Membrane US, the membrane manufacturer for water purification and wastewater reclamation, has purchased a building located adjacent to its existing manufacturing facility in ...
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