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For the record

Arla Foods reports 'landmark' results for 2012

Arla said that while growth in European markets for food products is low, markets outside the EU are experiencing double-digit growth rates.

February 20, 2013

Arla Foods said 2012 revenues rose 15% to about $11.3 billion and consolidated net profit was 3% of revenues ($340 million), highest in its history.

Marketing

Nikos Feta announces a healthy lifestyle promotion and giveaway

Sarah M. Kennedy

February 19, 2013

This spring Nikos Feta is offering a health and wellness promotion to win one-week stay at any of the Biggest Loser Resorts.

Trends in ready-to-drink tea

Increasingly, Americans are slaking their thirst with tea, not bottled water or soft drinks.

Stephanie Cernivec

February 16, 2013

Tea and ready-to-drink (RTD) tea achieved estimated sales of $6.7 billion in 2012, according to Chicago-based market research firm Mintel. And sales are expected to grow to nearly $8 billion by 2014, said Douglas Rash, group vice president of global sales for Treatt, Lakeland, Fla., citing statistics from Rockville, Md.-based Packaged Facts.

Chobani completes Idaho plant in less than a year

February 15, 2013

Chobani completed the construction of a 1 million-square-foot plant in Twin Falls, Idaho, in 326 days. The New York-based yogurt maker called it the world’s largest yogurt manufacturing facility. Ground-breaking was held in December 2011, construction began in January 2012 and the building was completed on Dec. 17, 2012.

Rhino Foods is rolling in cookie dough

Rhino Foods measures everything it does. Employees work to a goal and are rewarded when they meet the targets. Management’s reward is a smooth-running organization that fulfills customers’ needs.

James Carper

February 15, 2013

A manufacturing facility is like a living organism. Think of production, purchasing, warehousing and quality assurance as cells. Each of these departments has a job to do that in some way touches the other functions. Each has to communicate with the others so that the whole enterprise runs smoothly.

Earnings

Nestle's sales of milk products, ice cream increased 5.7% in 2012

The coffee and creamers businesses performed well in categories that are enjoying good growth.

February 14, 2013

Sales of milk products and ice cream increased 5.7% in 2012.

Dairy industry news briefs: Glanbia honors milk suppliers and more

February 14, 2013

Glanbia Foods, Twin Falls, Idaho, named 4 Brothers Dairy its 2012 Quality Patron of the Year. It gave the four Fitzgerald brothers (Andrew, Jerome, Clem and Louie) an all-expense paid trip to Ireland, Glanbia’s headquarters.

Earnings

Q3 revenues for Saputo increase a scant 0.2%; company looks to value-added milks, specialty cheeses

Higher milk costs resulting from amendments to the milk pricing formula in California are expect to negatively impact EBITDA over the next four months.

February 14, 2013

The Dairy Products Division (Canada) continues its investment strategy in product categories that offer growth potential, namely specialty cheeses and value-added milk products. The USA Dairy Products Sector continues to seek opportunities to mitigate the effect of higher milk costs resulting from amendments to the milk pricing formula in California.

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.

New uses for familiar dairy products, cheese and butter

Processors create new usage occasions for cheese and butter.

James Carper

February 12, 2013

Rather than curse the younger generation who are in the dark about how to cook, it’s better to light a candle and show them how to “get ’er done.” That’s the approach taken by two dairy companies, Kraft Foods and Land O Lakes. Dairy Foods honored each with an Editors’ Choice award in our Best New Dairy Products of 2012 program.