Land O'Lakes has acquired Vermont Creamery, a creamery and artisanal cheese and butter-maker in Websterville, Vermont, US. Vermont Creamery Co-Founders Bob Reese and Allison Hooper and Land O'Lakes, Inc. President and CEO Chris Policinski ...
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Woolworths has announced new long-term milk supply contracts Australian supermarket giant Woolworths has announced two new 10-year milk contracts across Australia that it says "will give dairy farmers and processors more certainty to ...
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New Zealand-based dairy firm Fonterra has begun construction of its new IDR357bn ($31.3m) blending and packing facility at Cikarang in West Java, Indonesia. The plant is expected to be the company's first manufacturing facility in the ...
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January 29, 2014 How might Lion's next moves affect the Australian dairy industry Food and beverage company Lion has announced that it does not currently intend to sell its shareholding in Victorian dairy company Warrnambool Cheese and ...
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Dairy producer WhiteWave Foods has announced plans to pay about $600 million to purchase Earthbound Farm, the largest organic produce brand in the U.S. Earthbound Farm was the producer behind the 2006 spinach E. coli outbreak that ...
Hong Kong has had enough of mainland mothers emptying the region's shelves of imported baby formula. The government there will fine people up to US$64,000 and potentially throw them in jail for up to two years if they're caught carrying too ...
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Dutch dairy cooperative Royal FrieslandCampina has sold its two regional dairy brands Mark Brandenburg and Milchreiter in Germany to ODW Frischprodukte for an undisclosed amount. The transaction, which takes effect from 1 September 2013, ...
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China's consumer quality watchdog issued a warning Monday morning over two potentially tainted New Zealand-made Karicare-brand infant formula products because of botulism concerns. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, ...
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China has levied a record fine of US$109 million (RMB668 million) on six baby formula producers as part of an anti-competition probe, South China Morning Post reported. The six companies under fire were Biostime, Mead Johnson, Abbott, ...
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China has levied a record fine of US$109 million (RMB668 million) on six baby formula producers as part of an anti-competition probe, South China Morning Post reported. The six companies under fire were Biostime, Mead Johnson, Abbott, ...
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US-based Roberts Dairy is set to sell its milk and dairy products under Hiland Dairy Foods label from May 2013. The move is aimed at strengthening the business of both the companies under one roof. Roberts Dairy, a division of Prairie ...
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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 ...
Kerry,the global ingredients&flavours and consumer foods group,issues the following Interim Management Statement for the nine months to 30 September 2012 and reaffirms outlook for full year. Business PERFORMANCE The Group continued to ...
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