Tesco cheese price fixing penalty reduced under settlement
Britain’s biggest retailer, Tesco, will pay a reduced £6.5m penalty to the UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for its involvement in the widespread fixing the cheese retail prices.
Archives for February 27, 2013
Muller PepsiCo JV takes Müller yogurt to more US cities as Batavia factory prepares for summer opening
Muller Quaker Dairy, the joint venture between PepsiCo and German dairy giant Theo Müller Group, is rolling out Müller yogurts to more US cities in the Mid-Atlantic, Great Lakes and Southeast regions, including Chicago, Atlanta, Cincinnati and Tampa...
Unilever & Nestlé tell Oxfam to bring other stakeholders to food ethics table
Unilever and Nestlé say Oxfam missed an opportunity for a wider and more comprehensive debate about food ethics after the NGO published a damning report on the supply chains of the world’s biggest food firms this week.
Yoplait pulls Calin+ ad after ASA bone health claim ruling
Yoplait has been ordered to pull a TV advert for its Calin+ yogurt range after the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that it made an unauthorised reduction of disease-risk (RDR) claim.
Dairy Crest to merge marketing teams in head office re-shuffle
Dairy Crest plans to merge its existing food and dairy marketing teams under its recently-announced efficiency-driven head office re-shuffle.
Fonterra unveils NZ$100m UHT processing investment
Fonterra will invest more than NZ$100m ($82.4m, €62.8m) in a new ultra-high temperature (UHT) milk and cream processing plant in New Zealand in an attempt to meet growing Asian demand for heat-treated dairy products.