Dairy Foods back issues from October 1996:
Be a good samaritan. (enactment of the Good Samaritan Food Donation Act)(Editorial)
Oct 01, 1996; ... Washington has just delivered a great opportunity dairy industry and for food banks nationwide. The "Good Samaritan Food Donation Act" was passed by the House of Representatives last month, following earlier Senate approval, and was sent on to the President for signing. A signing ceremony ...
Rolling with the punches. (Coca-Cola Foods' partnerships with dairies)
Oct 01, 1996; ... For more than 80 dairies across the country, it pays to have friends, or business partners, in high places. Especially if that "friend" is Coca-Cola Foods. The Atlanta-based company recently formed Minute Maid Dairy Business Systems, which established production and/or distribution ...
Speed-scratch with shreds. (Heluva Good Cheese Inc.'s shredded cheese line)(Cover Story)
Oct 01, 1996 ... Food manufacturers seeking growth opportunities only need to look as far as the American dinner table. Dinner is one tradition that families still treasure and will go to extraordinary efforts to do often, reports Better Homes and Garden magazine. However, time-pressed consumers want ...
Lessons from the recent past. (most notable new dairy products in 1995)
Oct 01, 1996; ... Out with the old, in with the new. That's the maxim the marketing business seems to live by these days: forever bringing line extensions and new products to market without taking time to assess what was right -- and what was wrong -- with the last batch. We thought it would be ...
Comparing cultures (and milks). (UK dairy products marketing)
Oct 01, 1996; ... We can learn a thing or two from our neighbors across the Atlantic when it comes to promoting dairy. Our English counterparts have experimented in dairy packaging and uniquely positioning products with pretty successful results. On the whole, English dairy cases were well-stocked, neatly ...
Contemporizing cottage cheese. (marketing cottage cheese)
Oct 01, 1996; ... Milk may be the last untapped beverage, but cottage cheese is definitely the most neglected good-for-you food. Cottage cheese is "a blank canvas waiting to be painted," according to the International Dairy Foods Assn. Disappointingly, when talking with dairy processors, the ...
Don't get fresh with me. (dairy processors' production of orange juice)
Oct 01, 1996; ... Nutritionists and researchers agree: The nutrients found in citrus fruit products, such as orange juice, play an important role in reducing the risk of cancer and heart disease. Consumers belief these nutrients, primarily vitamin C, fight off the common cold as well as ...
Merging mix-ins. (GuernseyDell Inc.-Bel Foods Inc. merger)
Oct 01, 1996 ... "Plead guilty but insane when you devour a whole container," is Guernsey-Bel's slogan for Crazynut Crunch ice cream -- a mixture of chocolate dipped hazelnuts and cashew clusters variegated in vanilla ice cream. Such ice cream insanity is today's craze. And recognizing the ...
Crystal Cream & Butter Co.: fluid plant of the future. (new plant in Sacramento, CA)
Oct 01, 1996 ... Featuring four processing systems and 10 diverse packaging lines, Crystal Cream & Butter's new plant in Sacramento, Calif., is one of the most advanced fluid plants in the world. Site of a former Safeway plant, the 145,000-sq-ft facility is almost all new construction and the ...
High-tech flow control. (Krohn Dairy Products' new pasteurization equipment)
Oct 01, 1996 ... A magnetic flow meter combined with an adjustable speed pump is providing superior control of whey protein concentrate (WPC) flow through an HTST at Krohn Dairy Products, Luxemburg, Wis. The company installed the new system in February to replace an existing pasteurizer for the WPC from ...
Mix-proof valves key processing system. (Shamrock Foods Co.'s new dairy processing equipment)
Oct 01, 1996 ... As aggressive marketing opened up new opportunities for the Dairy Div. of Shamrock Foods, Phoenix, Ariz., the company found that production couldn't keep up with sales. It also became apparent that the plant needed higher-speed product handling and greater flexibility. To ...
There's no sure thing. (new product introduction management for the dairy industry)
Oct 01, 1996; ... Product developers may find the odds in Vegas more charitable than bringing to market a new dairy product -- even if it addresses a consumer need, has a dynamic marketing plan, is innovative and looks cost-effective to produce and distribute. "New product development is a mix ...
Rolling a winner. (tips for successful new product introductions)
Oct 01, 1996; ... With the average supermarket containing a mere 30,000 products, according to the Food Marketing Institute, an empty supermarket could be stocked with nothing more than one year's worth of new product introductions. New Products News estimates that 22,000 new branded consumer ...
'Dairy speaks': the big picture: higher prices, but high demand. (dairy industry update)(Industry Overview)
Oct 15, 1996 ... The backdrop for dairy industry activity in 1996 has been a succession of some of the highest raw milk and milkfat prices ever. High feed costs due to low grain yields are primarily the cause, coupled with continued high demand for dairy products.As a result, retail dairy prices ...