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Squeezable pouch packaging has been an important trend in European kids’ beverages and snack foods for several years.

Through new engineering developments, Urschel now offers a wide variety of grating heads that offer cuts from coarse granules to different types of shreds for cheese, coconut, nuts and carrots.

Nestle bottles Nesquik and liquid coffee creamers in a state-of-the-art aseptic plant in Anderson , Ind. The facility is LEED-certified for its green features.

Thanks to robust sales of Nesquik flavored milks, innovations in the Juicy Juice brand and a new partnership with Jamba Juice, Nestlé USA is far from a milquetoast in grocery and convenience store channels.

Over the past 10 years, refrigerated yogurt has had a remarkable combined annual growth rate averaging around 30% and nearly 40 million new users.

It’s no surprise that ice cream doesn’t make the grocery shopping list in the wintertime. Aside from curbing the various strains of illness (ice cream soothes strep throat), consumers are warming their kitchens with other not-as-cold items.

Dannon expands its Activia line. Coach Farm launches a goats milk probiotic yogurt. Parmalat Canada rolls out Astro BioBest plant sterols yogurt.

Protein is getting a fresh look in nutrition circles and it’s catching on with consumers.

YoCream International, Inc. and Danone have entered a definitive merger agreement under which a subsidiary of Danone will merge with YoCream.  

In Thailand, Friesland Foods Foremost has introduced a line of milks designed for specific demographics.