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2014 in review: the year's most-read interviews on just-food
18 Dec 2014
Our interviews with senior United Biscuits executives - in the year the company's owners agreed to sell the UK snack maker to Turkey's Yildiz Holding - featured highly on the list of 2014's most-clicked interviews on just-food. Interviews with the CEOs of the UK's Premier Foods and Canada's Agropur, as well as the CFOs of Arla Foods and Brazil's BRF were also popular as we continued to gain access to some of the industry's leading lights.

UPDATE: Muller: Dairy Crest deal benefits whole supply chain
6 Nov 2014
German dairy giant Müller has insisted its move to buy Dairy Crest's dairies operations will help the entire UK sector, from farmers to consumers.

Dairy Crest to sell dairies division to Muller
6 Nov 2014
Dairy Crest is to sell its dairies division - including the Frijj brand - to German giant Müller.

Editor's choice: the highlights on just-food last week
25 Nov 2013
Canadian pension fund Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan made another investment in the UK with the acquisition of Burton's Biscuit Co. In Australia, grocery retailing giants Woolworths and Coles signed up to a code of conduct governing their relationship with suppliers. And we ran our latest just-food interview, with Patrick Coveney, CEO of private-label convenience food group Greencore.

UK: Muller acquires UK operations of dairy group Nom
4 Sep 2013
German dairy giant Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller has acquired the UK operations of Austrian rival Nom, as it looks to expand its presence in the country's private label yoghurt market.
UK: Muller Wiseman Dairies eyes depot closures
12 Jun 2013
UK milk supplier Muller Wiseman Dairies has said it may close two depots as it readjusts to the way milk is now delivered to retail customers.
UK: Muller to invest in butter production facility
15 Jan 2013
Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller has confirmed plans to invest GBP17m (US$27.3m) in a new UK facility that will see the company move into butter manufacturing in the country.

UPDATE: UK: Overseas investment to drive food M&A
8 Jan 2013
Analysts at Experian believe that overseas investment will maintain the momentum of mergers and acquisitions in the UK food sector.

just-food review of 2012: M&A revival but caution hinders big deals
19 Dec 2012
There were, despite continued economic uncertainty in many Western markets and concerns over slowing growth in the East, signs that M&A activity rebounded in the food sector this year. However, a look at just-food's M&A coverage this year shows there have been few big-ticket, transformational deals.

20 Sep 2012
First Milk is to raise the standard price it pays producers in its liquid milk pool by 2.6p per litre to 28.65p per litre.
Editor's choice: the highlights on just-food last week
17 Sep 2012
Late on Friday, India's government stunned the country with a wave of reforms, including the return of plans to ease restrictions on foreign investment into the retail sector. Further east, Japanese conglomerate Itochu Corp. confirmed it was in talks to buy Dole Food Co. assets - and expansion in China could be a factor in its interest.
UK: Wiseman next to pledge milk price hike
13 Sep 2012
Robert Wiseman Dairies has become the latest UK dairy processor to announce an increase in the price it pays farmers for milk.

UK: Wiseman to "rebuild trust" with milk price move
29 Aug 2012
UK milk supplier Robert Wiseman Dairies has insisted it will look to bring more transparency to how it determines the price it pays farmers after a tense summer in the sector.

UK: Dairy farmer protests target Arla Foods
16 Aug 2012
Protests by UK farmers over the price of milk last night (15 August) targeted dairy giant Arla Foods.

UPDATE: UK: Iceland agrees to talks amid dairy protests
3 Aug 2012
Iceland Foods has agreed to talks with UK dairy farmers after the retailer was targeted by a fresh round of protests last night.

UK: Dairy farmer protests target Iceland, Farmfoods
3 Aug 2012
Protests by UK farmers over the price of milk last night (2 August) targeted discount retailers Iceland Foods and Farmfoods.

UK: Farmers warn milk protests could continue
31 Jul 2012
UK dairy farmer protests over milk prices could continue, despite processors last week reversing plans to cut prices this week.
Quote, unquote: just-food's week in words
30 Jul 2012
Major food multinationals last week reported their first-half results. Unilever saw food volumes fall, PepsiCo insisted it had "momentum" in Europe, Hershey believed US candy had reached a new growth phase and Danone faced criticism from analysts. Elsewhere, the UK milk farmers' protests appeared to pay off, with processors shelving plans for price cuts.
UPDATE: UK: Wiseman shelves milk price cut
27 Jul 2012
Robert Wiseman Dairies has confirmed it will shelve plans to cut the price it pays for milk following talks with farmers and its retail customers.

UK: Wiseman in talks to solve milk price feud
27 Jul 2012
Robert Wiseman Dairies is in talks with the National Farmers Union and its customers over its plans to cut the price it pays for milk as farmer anger centres on the Muller-owned processor.

UK: Arla U-turn on milk price cut
27 Jul 2012
Arla Foods has become the next UK dairy processor to reveal it will no longer implement plans to cut milk prices next week.

UK: Dairy Crest postpones milk price cut
26 Jul 2012
Dairy Crest will postpone a cut to the farmgate milk price that was due to come into effect on 1 August.
UK: Asda, Morrisons, Co-op in government talks on milk
25 Jul 2012
Asda, Morrisons and The Co-operative Group will today (25 July) hold talks with the UK government to discuss the future of the country's dairy sectors - as farmers protests over milk prices continue.
UK: Milk protests will continue, says Farmers for Action
24 Jul 2012
UK farmers angry at the cuts to the price they receive for their milk will continue their protests despite a deal on a code of practice to govern relations in the industry.
UK: Aldi next to up milk payments
24 Jul 2012
Discounter Aldi has become the latest UK retailer to increase the amount it pays for milk.

UK: Morrisons to up milk payment
23 Jul 2012
Morrisons is to increase what it pays to milk farmers, becoming the latest UK retailer to up its payment amid anger from suppliers.

UK: Morrisons set to announce milk payment changes next week
20 Jul 2012
Morrisons plans to announce changes to the way it pays its milk farmers next week, the UK retailer said today (20 July).
UPDATE 2: UK: NFU calls for retailers to fund milk price increase
17 Jul 2012
The National Farmers Union has suggested the reversal of recent price cuts implemented by dairy processors should be funded "from retailers margins".

UK: Scotland unveils "dairy action plan"
13 Jul 2012
The Scottish government has unveiled a five-point action plan aimed at tackling pricing issues in the dairy industry.

UK: UK government unveils dairy farmer funding
13 Jul 2012
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a GBP5m (US$7.7m) funding programme aimed at helping improve dairy farmers' competitiveness.
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