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Ads for cream cheese are up 48% compared to last week

You should have bought ice cream last week. This week the average price is up 8 cents to $3.07.

June 10, 2016

The USDA’s Dairy Market News reports on what retailers are advertising this week, and what they are charging for cream cheese, cheese, yogurt, milk and ice cream.

Sales of veggie juices, lemonade sales are all juiced up

Sales are promising for vegetable juices, juice drinks, smoothies and lemonade. Orange juice sales struggle.

Sarah M. Kennedy

June 8, 2016

Juice beverages are a multibillion dollar industry, and according to a recent trend report from Fona International, millennials in particular are throwing back more juices as meals and snacks, and for health and hydration.

Dean Foods buys Friendly’s ice cream business

June 7, 2016

Dean Foods Co. in May said it will acquire the manufacturing and retail ice cream business of Friendly’s Ice Cream for $155 million in cash. Friendly’s is a leading ice cream brand in the Northeast, as well as a restaurant company.

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.

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Winner, winner

Sea salt caramel milk from Prairie Farms Dairy wins IDFA dairy products contest

Fruitcrown Products Corp.’s coconut Key lime pie chia seed yogurt won the Most Innovative Prototype Product or Flavor category.

June 4, 2016

Prairie Farms Dairy and Fruitcrown Products Corp. had the winning entries in IDFA’s Innovative Milk and Cultured Dairy Products contest.

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.

Food safety

Dairy processing facilities must follow new FDA intentional adulteration rule

This rule in many respects parallels the Preventive Controls Rule for Human Food with the exception that it deals with intentional bad acts.

Clay Detlefsen

June 2, 2016

The FDA’s Mitigation Strategies to Protect Food Against Intentional Adulteration (the “food defense rule”) covers approximately 9,800 food facilities, including dairy plants.

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.

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.