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Quality Chekd honors U.S. and Colombian dairies

June 6, 2016

Alqueria Dairy (Bogota, Colombia), Alqueria Dairy (Santa Marta, Colombia), Prairie Farms (Carlinville, Ill.) and Umpqua Dairy Products Co. (Roseburg, Ore.) took the top Quality Chekd honors in dairy excellence, plant performance and marketing, respectively, at the 2016 QCS Leadership Conference in April.

Awards

Dairy Foods asks you to vote for the 2016 Plant of the Year

Twelve dairies have been featured in Dairy Foods magazine and on dairyfoods.com over the previous 18 months.

June 3, 2016

Dairy Foods asks the dairy industry to help it select the 2016 Plant of the Year. We have nominated 12 dairy processing plants that manufacture fluid milk, ice cream, yogurt, cheese and other dairy and nondairy products.

Brookshire Grocery is All Star’s member of the year

June 3, 2016

Brookshire Grocery Co. Manufacturing, Tyler, Texas, was named member of the year at the All Star Association’s 58th annual convention in March. Fifty-two member companies and 42 suppliers attended.

Acquisitions

Grupo Lala CEO says time was right to acquire Laguna Dairy

The acquisition gives Grupo Lala a local platform for production and sales to serve the Hispanic market in the United States.

June 2, 2016

Grupo Lala said among the reasons it bought Laguna Dairy is that drinkable yogurts have been successful with major U.S. retailers and there are “firm commitments” to buy the products.

The story behind noosa’s whole-milk yogurt

James Carper

June 2, 2016

Based in Colorado but with roots in Australia, noosa yoghurt has disrupted dairy aisles throughout the United States. Innovative flavors and see-through packaging help the product stand out on grocers’ shelves.

Lifeway Foods signs Olympic medalist as brand ambassador

June 2, 2016

Milk processors are not the only dairy companies with ties to this summer’s Olympic games. Lifeway Foods, a maker of kefir and other cultured dairy beverages, Carli Lloyd to serve as brand ambassador.

Supply-demand

Cheese up, milk down going into the Memorial Day weekend

The USDA’s Dairy Market News reports that cheese inventories are long.

May 27, 2016

The holiday weekend sparked additional retail promotions, aiding sales of cheese. But as schools let out, milk processors plan to re-route volumes to their balancing plants.

Personnel file

Sargento promotes Bartnik; Bastian joins Idaho dairy group; remembering Elwood Kirkpatrick

Kirkpatrick served the dairy industry for over 28 years in various leadership positions, including 26 years as president of Michigan Milk Producers Association.

May 27, 2016

News about people in the dairy processing industry: William (Bill) Bartnik, Eric Bastian and Elwood Kirkpatrick.

Nutrition labels

FDA to require ‘added sugar’ statement on new nutrition facts label

The Food and Drug Administration says the “refreshed design and relevant information” contained in the label “will help consumers make healthy food choices”

May 20, 2016

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today updated the nutrition facts label for packaged foods.