Dairy Foods & Beverages - Articles

General Mills' Yoplait introduced Lactose-Free yogurt

February 13, 2013

General Mills’ Yoplait introduced Yoplait Lactose Free yogurt last year, the first of its kind on the market.

Frozen dessert

Haagen-Dazs launches 7 flavors of gelato

Sarah M. Kennedy

February 13, 2013

Haagen-Dazs is introducing a new gelato to its line with seven Italian-inspired flavors.

Milk processors grow sales one serving at a time

As sales of nondairy milks alternatives surge, the milk industry fights back with innovations in single-serve packaging and by positioning chocolate milk as a recovery beverage.

Sarah M. Kennedy

February 12, 2013

The milk industry dodged one bullet this year (thanks to the temporary extension by Congress of the 2008 farm bill, keeping milk prices stable, for now) but the numbers show there’s still a bumpy road ahead.

Heluva Good! adds Bold line of cheeses

February 12, 2013

Heluva Good!, a brand of f HP Hood LLC, Lynnfield, Mass., expands its cheese line with Heluva Good! BOLD, featuring three flavors — Chipotle Cheddar, Habanero Jack and Special Reserve Extra Sharp Cheddar.

Homemade Brand launches Greek frozen yogurt

February 12, 2013

Homemade Brand, from United Dairy Farmers Inc., Cincinnati, launched its line of Greek frozen yogurt in Kroger and UDF stores.

Product development

From idea to shelf, Kraft created Fresh Take in 12 months

Launched with six flavors, Kraft is soon adding three more, and promoting the product with mobile food trucks.

February 4, 2013

Kraft Foods got its new Fresh Take product on the shelf in about 12 months after the idea was conceived. Kraft launched the cheese-and-breadcrumbs kit in January 2012 with six SKUs, and will soon add three more flavors.

Greek frozen yogurt

Life imitates television in Ben & Jerry's new '30 Rock'-inspired frozen Greek yogurt

A new Liz Lemon flavor was introduced to celebrate the finale of the NBC series 30 Rock.

Sarah M. Kennedy

February 1, 2013

Ben & Jerry's introduces Liz Lemon Greek Frozen Yogurt, inspired by a character on the NBC show 30 Rock, which ended its series yesterday.

Chocolate milk

Hershey’s introduces a single-serve milk with its Special Dark chocolate flavor

Sarah M. Kennedy

January 31, 2013

Hershey’s adds a single-serve Special Dark chocolate milkshake to its line of refrigerated products.

USDA's Dairy Market News

Sales of organic whole milk rose 16%; reduced fat milks up 6.8% in November

Total fluid milk products, which includes organic and non-organic, were down 1.7%.

January 25, 2013

The USDA's AMS service reported this week that total organic milk products sales for November 2012 were 191 million pounds, an increase of 9% from November 2011.

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