General Mills has been making up lost ground in the fast-growing US Greek yogurt market, increasing its market share to 9% compared with less than 6% in early summer.
Tetra Pak has acquired Minneapolis-based Filtration Engineering Company, Inc., the US market leader in membrane filtration technology for the dairy and cheese industries.
India-based Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), the marketer of the Amul brand of milk and dairy products, is set to establish a dairy unit in Thane, Maharashtra.
Chobani has celebrated the grand opening of its second domestic manufacturing facility which is said to be the world’s largest yogurt production plant.
Yakult has announced that it intends to completely dismantle its Argentinian business, citing the problems encountered establishing a “sufficient business foundation” in the country.
Renfro Foods, a US-based producer of salsas, sauces and relishes, has added new nacho cheese products to its Mrs. Renfro’s Nacho Cheese Sauce category.
Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) is now working to step up the sale of milk in the market following its record procurement of 52 lakh litre of milk per day.
The discovery of traces of dairy fat in Neolithic ceramic fragments has led to suggestions that people may have been making cheese in Europe for up to 7,500 years.
DuPont Nutrition & Health said that it aims to accelerate its growth within Eastern Europe with the launch of its range of mesophilic cultures for Tvarog.
Chr. Hansen has initiated a CSR (corporate social responsibility) project to explore how camel cheese may make a difference in rural Kenya and Somalia.
Extreme global weather will contribute to a rise in dairy prices in the first six months of 2013, according to Theo Spierings, Fonterra’s chief executive.
