The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that Alpro UK’s advertising of its ‘almond milk’ was not misleading, despite complaints that the product contained just 2% almonds.
FrieslandCampina has proposed the introduction of an independent milk price for organic dairy farmers – in line with growing European demand for organic dairy products.
Complaints that an advertising campaign for SMA Follow-on Milk made misleading claims that it is the best alternative to breast milk have been upheld by the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
Leading Chinese infant formula manufacturer Synutra l has entered into a commercial partnership agreement with French dairy giant Sodiaal and its subsidiary, Euroserum – a deal the Chinese firm hopes will “further increase consumer confidence” in its...
Müller Dairy UK and Müller-owned Robert Wiseman Dairies have promised a “substantial increase” in the price they pay to their dairy farmer suppliers for milk.
UK processor and farmer representatives have settled on a code of best practice relating to milk supply contracts – the latest effort by the British dairy industry to rebuild relations tainted by this summer’s milk price protests.
Arla Foods UK has increased the standard price it pays to dairy farmers for milk and adopted a new, more transparent milk pricing and sourcing model in an effort to “build confidence in the British dairy industry.”
Robert Wiseman Dairies has launched an initiative with dairy farmers to increase the transparency of how it determines its farm gate milk prices (FGMP).
Irish dairy giant Glanbia has been granted permission to build a new processing plant – a development planned in anticipation of its potential joint venture with Glanbia Co-operative Society Limited.
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has given preliminary approval to a novel ‘anti-hunger’ ingredient designed to be added to a number of dairy products including yogurt.
Dairy Crest has been praised for its “Churchillian” decision to defer its planned raw milk price reduction while it continues talks with protesting farmers.
Sales of lactose-free dairy products have doubled over the last five years, with an increase in self-diagnosed cases of lactose intolerance in the US and Europe driving $900m sales.
R&R Ice Cream is recalling three flavours of a ChokaBlok ice cream products in the UK over fears they are contaminated with fragments of broken lolly stick.
National Starch Food Innovation has strengthened its presence in Turkey by clinching a formal deal with distributor Univar to reach more customers in the country.
Dairy giant Fonterra has entered into a “mutually beneficial” agreement that will see it process dairy ingredients in the Netherlands for the first time.
Carbery is exploring the potential of flavours to make protein-fortified products more palatable to ageing consumers, according to head of research and development Aine Hallihan.
Increased intake of vitamin B2 (riboflavin) could significantly lower blood pressure in around 10 percent of people, according to new research that links a common genetic factor with the vitamin.
Demand for whey products underpinned a strong first quarter for Glanbia with analysts hailing an ‘encouraging start’ to the year, but the firm has dismissed talk that it plans to spin-off its Dairy Ireland business as 'speculation'.
Nestlé has revealed that cost pressures affecting its US ice cream business led to it scrap promotion-led sales in 2012 and says the impact on pricing had been “quite dramatic”.
Dairy Crest has announced the loss of its Tesco milk contract but says this bears no relation to new plans to close two dairies, as it cuts costs to sustain profitability in an 'extremely challenging' liquid milk market.
New Zealand firm A2 Corporation (A2C) has announced a strategic agreement whereby Synlait Milk will manufacture A2's branded nutritional powders on the firm's behalf as A2C aims at lucrative Chinese and Southeast Asian markets.
Following its merger with local dairy player Unimilk in 2010, Danone will invest a further US$700m in Russia over the next five to seven years, aimed at driving capacity and growth.
DuPont Nutrition and Health claims that its new cheese starter culture will ‘boost capacity without increasing milk consumption’, by saving protein commonly lost in whey waste when producers use other cultures.
Fluctuating commodity prices and demand is forcing increasing numbers of food ingredients suppliers either to specialize or diversify, according to Euromonitor International
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published a scientific opinion concluding that protein from goat’s milk is a suitable protein source for infant and follow-on formulae, provided the final product complies with compositional criteria.
Dutch dairy concern Friesland Campina (FC) has reported that branded cheese sales in 2011 were hit by European consumers trading down from brands to cheaper products, and Middle Eastern turmoil.
The board of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) will decide, during a March 20 meeting, whether to review current rules governing the sale and marketing of unpasteurised, or raw, drinking milk and cream after producers used novel sales routes such as the...
Royal Friesland Campina is poised to complete the takeover of Filipino firm Alaska Milk Corporation (AMC) for total sum of around €350m, in a move it said gave it access to 100m consumers in a ‘high growth’ market and the opportunity to 'valorise...
The Provision Trade Federation (PTF) says it has little sympathy for the UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), which admits that it is under pressure to remove cheese compositional standards from the pending Food Information Regulation...
Dairy processor Arla has revealed plans to save at least DKK 500m (€67m) inside 18 months, and says that success demands the ability to reduce production costs, given tough competition with retailers.
Consumer demand for Halal and Kosher-based dairy ingredients is on the rise globally, but demands not only demands careful evaluation of ingredients, but also strict regulation of product packaging, production processes and facilities.
Irish dairy firm Glanbia says that booming US cheddar export sales fed into a strong 2012, but warned that the key risk to the global dairy market in 2012 centred on “significant concerns” regarding the global economic downturn and its effect on consumers.
New Zealand dairy co-operative Fonterra has presented what it claims is significant research showing that its proprietary probiotic strains reduce childhood disease and childhood allergy rates, while the addition of dairy lipids to formula aids infant...
UK trade body Dairy UK has called on the nation’s government to do more to communicate the positive health benefits of dairy products, and warns that the current focus on reformulation risks ‘putting many consumers off eating dairy foods’.
With strong dairy consumption growth and low per capita consumption, Indonesia offers good opportunities for Irish dairy sector, according to Bord Bia, particularly in dairy powders.
DairyReporter.com asked Albert Adroer, general director of Spanish functional ingredients firm Premium Ingredients, what makes him tick in the dairy world, and also how he unwinds in the fair Spanish city of Barcelona.
