Edwardsville, Ill.-based Prairie Farms Dairy said it launched 18 new ways to snack with the introduction of small-batch cream cheese spreads in 3.5-ounce cups and small-batch ice cream pints.
Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, consumers ate at home more often during the past year — and many of them baked and cooked up a storm, too. That reality translated into rosy sales at retail for a number of cultured dairy categories.
One of my favorite sweet flavors is passion fruit. I discovered it on a trip to Australia in 2016 - the most popular yogurt flavor in that country is passion fruit.
Last year was a monumental one for the world, and a newsworthy one for Tillamook County Creamery Association, too. The Tillamook, Ore.-based cooperative became a Certified B Corporation, donated $4 million dollars to a COVID-19 relief fund and partnered with the American Farmland Trust to help secure farmland for future generations.
The cultured dairy segment has been tossing multiple balls in the air in an effort to meet numerous, and sometimes seemingly conflicting, consumers trends. This balancing act has been delivering mixed results for the categories within the segment.
The brand will donate 100 meals to Feeding America for each tagged post of a cheesecake on Twitter.
July 30, 2020
July 30 is National Cheesecake Day, and Philadelphia cream cheese is launching a fundraiser that makes supporting a good cause as easy as making a cheesecake.
You might say it's a good news/bad news story within the U.S. retail cultured dairy products space. The good news? Some cultured dairy products categories posted strong recent growth.
In today's refrigerated grocery store aisles, customers can find a plethora of cultured dairy options, including yogurt/skyr, sour cream, cottage cheese, cream cheese and kefir.