Nestle USA has begun work on a $359 million production plant for flavored milk drinks and liquid Coffeemate products. The plant will be located about 40 miles northeast of Indianapolis, and is expected to total nearly 900,000 sq ft.
CARLINVILLE, Ill.-Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc. has appointed Edward Mullins as exec. v.p. and CEO. Mullins' appointment follows the July death of Roger Capps, who served as CEO of the dairy cooperative since Oct. 2000. Capps was 70, and died of cancer.
Milk is milk. Cheese is cheese. Yogurt is yogurt. These simple sentences have never been more untrue. Innovation is alive and thriving around the world and dairy foods appear to be one of the most dynamic categories. Read on.
There's been a little rumbling about rBST recently. And there are reasons to believe it might be only the beginning of the rumbling, or the beginning of the end for the use of the stuff in the U.S.
The tipping point, we can see clearly in retrospect, came in the summer of 2004.
We didn't notice it at the time, because U.S. markets were coming off record-high prices that spring, and in our alphabet-soup world, the industry was trying to figure out how to deal with CWT, bST and the rising CPI.
Last month a U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. dismissed a lawsuit by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)'s that requested lactose intolerance warning labels for milk.
The Dannon Co., Inc. is planning a $200 million expansion of its current production facility in West Jordan, Utah. According to a local news report, the plant will add 10 production lines.
MORTON GROVE, Ill.-Lifeway Foods, Inc., has acquired Helios Nutrition Limited, its top competitor in the kefir market with a No. 2 overall market share and a No. 1 position in the organic category.
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