Networking hardware giant Cisco is to acquire privately held network software provider Intucell for about $475m (£300m). Intucell, headquartered in Ra'anana, Israel, was founded in 2008 and provides self-optimising network (SON) ...
Tags: Cisco, networking hardware, network software
Daily milk production in the UK diary farms has been reduced by 1.1liter to 24.1liter a cow due to unfavorable weather conditions across the country. Average milk production for October 2012 was reported as 993 million liters, a 6.5% drop ...
Tags: Dairy milk, milk, DairyCo, Dairy Group
There were, despite continued economic uncertainty in many Western markets and concerns over slowing growth in the East, signs that M&A activity rebounded in the food sector this year. Data for the whole of 2012 has not yet been published ...
Tags: European M&A advisors, food sector, Food
The UK government has insisted the country's dairy industry should look to meet growing demand in China. Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary Owen Paterson is visiting China this week, in what the Government described as "the ...
Tags: UK government, dairy industry, growing demand, food trade delegation
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 ...
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A "coalition" of UK farming organisations has unveiled a ten-point plan that it claims will help secure the long-term future of the country's dairy industry. The plan, agreed by all members of the Dairy Coalition, focuses on "exposing bad ...
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
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 ...
Tags: UK dairy, broad-based dairy, UK brands
Dairy Crest has said it is "on track" to up the price it pays farmers for milk after postponing plans to cut prices amid the fierce protests this summer. The UK dairy processor, which owns brands including Cathedral City cheese and ...
Tags: Milk Price, voluntary code, legal approval
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
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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UK retailer Asda will increase the premium it pays the farmers who supply its liquid milk through the Arla Foods Milk Partnership. After demonstrations targeting Asda for paying below the cost of production, Asda has bowed to pressure and ...
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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
Arla Foods is to increase the price it pays its co-operative members in the UK for milk in a move, it said, would "build confidence" in the UK dairy industry. The Cravendale milk owner said it will now pay 29.5ppl for milk supplied by ...
Tags: Arla Foods, milk, dairy industry, Arla Foods Milk
Networking hardware giant Cisco is to acquire privately held Meraki for $1.2bn (GBP 755m). Meraki, which was founded in 2006 and has offices in New York, London and Mexico, offers mid-market customers easy-to-deploy on-premise networking ...
Tags: New York, London, easy-to-deploy