Milk prices are climbing around the globe and have reached multiyear highs, driven in part by a surprising surge in demand from China, a country where not so long ago it was next to impossible to get dairy products.
Unilever has launched a new probiotic ice cream brand in the US called Culture Republick, which the company claims is the first premium ice cream containing probiotics.
Fruit flavours dominate the yoghurt market, featuring in over two-thirds of global launches recorded by Innova Market Insights in the 12 months to the end of March 2013, rising to three-quarters of the US total and nearly 70% in Latin America. ...
New research from Tetra Pak forecasts that flavoured milk consumption will grow at more than double the rate of white milk globally between 2012 and 2015. ...
Fueled by Magnum’s new-found success, Unilever is chipping away at Nestlé’s lead in the $12-billion US ice cream market....
Speciality cheese has come a long way in the past two decades, where previously it was super-premium and largely unknown and unexplored by the majority of consumers. It is a broad sector that BMI Research breaks down into four categories. As can be expected for...
Global launch numbers for lactose-free dairy products more than tripled in the five-year period to the beginning of 2012, according to Innova Market Insights data. The share of total tracked dairy introductions featuring a lactose-free positioning rose from less than 2.5% to 4.5% over the...
PepsiC and Theo Muller Group, the largest privately-held dairy business in Germany, have announced that their US joint venture, Muller Quaker Dairy, will enter the growing US dairy market this month with innovative premium yoghurt products that have...
Rhodes Food Group can take a deserved bow - its Portobello Franschhoek Angelot, a washed-rind cheese, has been crowned as the 2012 Dairy Product of the Year. In Agri-Expo's annual dairy championships, 26 excellent dairy products were awarded the coveted Qualité mark of excellence, and...
The fifth Tetra Pak Dairy Index, released last week, highlights the challenges and opportunities in meeting rising expectations of low-income consumers in developing countries. New research from Tetra Pak has identified 2.7 billion low-income consumers in developing countries as the dairy industry’s...
Chobani is making Greek yoghurt as fast as Americans are eating it. Its plant in upstate New York already pumps out 1.5 million cases of the thick yoghurt every week, and its sales have rocketed to an estimated $700 million annually, only four years after...
A thirst for milk, bred largely by the expanding middle classes in the developing world, has sent demand rocketing and prices soaring, according to a report in The New York Times. Along with zippy cars and flat-panel TVs, milk is the mark of new...
The overall demand for cultured dairy products continues to increase and the yoghurt market plays an integral part within this. The category has seen consistent growth since BMI tracking started in 1998, reaching up to 18% in 2005, and in double digits for the...
Milk substitutes cover milk powders (full cream, skim and blends) as well as powdered creamers. In its annual quantification of these sectors in South Africa, BMI Research reports that after fairly substantial declines, robust growth is expected in 2011 for the always volatile milk powders...
On the back of good growth in 2009 (5.7%), the collective South African buttermilk and maas category saw a healthy growth of 4.9% during 2010, reports BMI Research in its annual market quantification. The category appears to be largely unaffected by the recession and...
The world’s leading beverage and snacks maker, Pepsico, has reportedly decided to put its footing into the yoghurt world and is hatching a joint venture with Theo Müller Group, Germany’s largest privately-owned dairy business. Zacks Equity Research company says that Pepsi and Müller will...
Tetra Pak, the global food processing and packaging giant, has released the fourth annual Dairy Index that this year indicates a decade-long dairy boom and a surge in African consumption of almost 50%.
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Fueled by rising demand for Greek varieties, yoghurt finished 2010 as one of the fastest-growing grocery categories in the US, according to new figures from SymphonyIRI, reports Advertising Age. But the battle for dominance is just beginning, as yoghurt upstarts and stalwarts...