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• Milk Drinking Bolstered by Retail Price Cuts of 5p Per Litre

  A dip into Dairyco’s data on the milk market shows that fresh milk volumes have grown by 2.5% in the year to June 2011, but the retail price paid per litre has dropped by 8% , due to the milk price war waged by supermarkets. So far, so not newsworthy... Posted Jul 13 2011, 09:54 AM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: DairyCo, dairy products market, milk market

• Dairy Crest v Wiseman – Where Would You Put Your Money?

  Dairy Crest and Robert Wiseman Dairies have just announced annual results. Both process huge quantities of milk (2.1 billion litres for Dairy Crest and 1.6 billion for Wiseman) but their business models could not be more different. Wiseman supplies only... Posted May 20 2010, 09:43 AM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: Dairy Crest, DairyCo, Robert Wiseman

• Consumers and Shoppers – The Importance of Understanding the Difference.

  From The Institute of Grocery Distribution comes a timely reminder of the difference between shoppers and consumers, consumers being the person who ultimately eats or uses a product and the shopper being the one who buys the product from the shop. Sometimes... Posted Feb 14 2010, 04:08 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: DairyCo, IGD, EBLEX, Shoppers, Consumers, Generic Advertising

• Hard Cheese – The Baffling Behaviour of Branded Cheddar Sellers

  Dairyco have just published figures for cheese sales in the 52 weeks to end December 2009. The top line picture is that total cheese sales are up, by 4.2% in tonnage, helped, as Dairyco points out, by a very modest price rise of just 1p per kilo. The... Posted Jan 28 2010, 02:51 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: DairyCo, UK Cheese Market

• UK Milk Market – Examining Opportunities for Growth

  Tetra Pak, multi billion pound maker of drinks cartons, has just published a review of the UK liquid milk market, setting out where growth opportunities might lie. The company estimates the total market, retail and catering together, to be around 6 billion... Posted Dec 14 2009, 03:11 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: DairyCo, innovation, UK milk market, Tetra Pak

• Milk Drinking on the Up Despite Price Hikes

  DairyCo has just published liquid milk consumption figures for the 12 months to 14th June 2009, and they show some striking trends. All those concerned about the effect of price rises on consumers’ fresh milk buying habits need not have worried. Despite... Posted Jul 10 2009, 02:33 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: DairyCo, milk market

• Livestock and the Environment - Where is the Voice of Farming?

  Livestock and the environment are in the spotlight again, and the frustrating thing for anyone involved in food or farming is the one sided nature of the debate. All the media coverage boils down to one message – “meat and dairy environmentally bad so... Posted Feb 16 2009, 02:45 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: DairyCo, farming and climate change, NFU, NBA, NSA, Food Futures

• Dairy Products Market 2008

  Here’s a look at the Dairy Products market in 2008, courtesy of the Grocer. All data is for the 12 months to end October, and supplied by Nielsen market research. It was a year when huge jumps in food prices collided with credit-crunched consumers reining... Posted Jan 16 2009, 05:13 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: DairyCo, dairy products market, The Grocer

• Jargon Busting - What is "Provenance"?

  Its amazing how jargon creeps into business language. "Provenance" is a classic example. No food discussion passes without reference to provenance. Farmers are regularly told that having provenance is big market opportunity, and that people... Posted Jul 22 2008, 04:12 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: DairyCo, local foods, provenance

• Milk Market Data Quarter 1 08

  DairyCo, the new name for the MDC, has just published liquid milk market data for the 12 months to April 2008. The analysts there tend to concentrate on annual figures but a better feel for trends can be got by looking at shorter term numbers, so here's... Posted May 07 2008, 01:47 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: dairy market, DairyCo