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Sales of natural cheese slices are growing at breakneck speed, or at least they are outpacing other forms of cheese.

Paperboard cartons are a mainstay in the packaging business and a key contributor to the dairy sector.

New Product Reviw

Super Bowl Sunday is a super day for cheese; then again, almost everyday seems to be a very good day to eat cheese.

Norman Rockwell Homestyle Ice Cream, a product of Dallas-based L&M Creative Foods L.P., recently debuted through the network of Albertson food stores.

Milk sales have doubled at McDonald's since the launch last year of single-serve, plastic, re-closeable bottles. Wendy's has had similar success. Neither restaurant has done it on the cheap. Milk in a paper carton was selling for about 89 cents per half pint; in the plastic, half-pint bottles, milk is selling for as much as $1.19. It is not a commodity. As I write this, Burger King has just completed a two-month long test of plastic bottles. By the time you read this, the folks at BK, the third largest quick-service burger chain, may have already announced a national roll-out for early 2006.

Family-owned Steuben Foods Inc. , Jamaica, N.Y., has established another business-Whitney Foods Inc. -to market its new line of aseptic, single-serve smoothies: Yo on the Go™.

Ice cream and sherbet sales remain flat, and what's worse, novelty sales are now also showing a steady pattern of negligible declines.

Datamonitor has listed the top 10 mega-trends and all have packaging relevance. As a matter of fact, packaging will be an important enabler to these trends in many ways.

There's a new addition to Purchase, N.Y.-based PepsiCo Inc.'s non-carbonated beverage portfolio-a line of flavored milk beverages called Quaker™ Milk Chillers™. Made with 2% reduced-fat milk and fortified with calcium