Latest News in the food Industry

24 Nov 2015

Eating on the go continues to be one of the leading trends targeted by the food and drinks industry as formal meal patterns and increasingly busy lifestyles have brought about something of a revolution in the format and content of our diets. Nearly al...

9 Nov 2015

Lianne van den Bos, Senior Food Analyst at Euromonitor International, tries to make sense of how things will work out in the highly competitive yoghurt market.

19 Feb 2015

DSM has published the results of a survey it conducted on the international perception of yogurt amongst 6,000 men and women  in Brazil, China, France, Poland, Turkey as well as the USA. Among its conclusions are that, encouragingly for yogurt manufact...

19 Feb 2015

Arla has issued an update on how it sees the market and its performance ahead of publication of its annual results later this month. 2014 was a complex year, the company said. The farmer-owned company achieved one of its best results ever in a market i...

17 Feb 2015

Fonterra has commissioned its new dairy ingredients plant in Heerenveen, in the north of the Netherlands. The plant produces whey and lactose specialty ingredients that will be used in high-value paediatric, maternal, and sports nutrition products by F...

12 Feb 2015

Müller UK & Ireland Group has confirmed that its standard milk price from March 5, 2015 will be 24.15ppl, a reduction of 1.75ppl. The company took a decision to hold its milk price for February but said that it has since faced a widening gap betwee...

9 Feb 2015

Health and wellness start-up fairlife – founded by the Select Milk Producers co-op – has introduced fairlife ultra-filtered milk, which it describes as high quality milk that’s cold-filtered for 50 percent more protein, 30 percent more calc...

4 Feb 2015

Fonterra has reduced its milk volume forecast for the 2014-15 season to 1,532 million kgMS, reflecting the impact of dry weather on production in recent weeks. The new forecast is 3.3% lower than the 1,584 million kgMS collected last season. The previo...

2 Feb 2015

Dairy Crest has announced that following a drop in its March milk price, there will be no further reductions to its farmgate milk price before July. The company says it is the first processor in the British dairy sector to introduce a ‘price floor’ tha...

30 Jan 2015

Israeli company ICL’s Food Specialties business unit is to acquire Prolactal, and its subsidiary, Rovita. Prolactal, based in Hartberg, Austria, and Engelsberg, Germany, is a European producer of dairy proteins and other ingredients for the food and be...

28 Jan 2015

Arla Foods has officially inaugurated a brand-new production area at its site in Pronsfeld, near Bitburg-Prüm in the Eifel district. A total of about €110 million was invested in the construction of a new milk drying tower, a new creamery and additiona...

23 Jan 2015

Arla Foods Ingredients is to sell lactose ingredients through the Global Dairy Trade (GDT) online auction platform for the first time as part of its bid to become the world’s leading lactose supplier. More than 900,000 tonnes of dairy ingredients are t...