Article: Cottage cheese revival? (Processors are stepping up their marketing to counter slumping category sales)(Marketing)

Processors are stepping up their marketing to counter slumping category sales

It's January, time to start a new diet. For many people, that means buying a carton of cottage cheese on their next shopping trip. Sounds like good news for the dairy industry, right? In the short-term, of course, it is. But the fact that some people think of cottage cheese only as a "diet food" indicates a serious image problem for what may be the industry's most important cultured product.

Cottage cheese's bland image, however, is just one factor experts point to when attempting to explain the category's declining overall sales. Some say lack of advertising support, ...

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