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Article: Lowfat milk sales slumping, cottage cheese brands grow.(Dairy Market Trends)
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- Dairy Foods
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Lowfat milk sales are in a bit of slump after having undergone some measurable growth early in 2005. The second half of the year saw volume sales drop by as much as 3% per quarter. Meanwhile some brands of lowfat milk, in particular organic and other value-added milk products recorded impressive volume and dollar sales growth for the full year ended last Christmas. And while cottage cheese is relatively flat, a couple of the top-10 brands are building steam apparently thanks to in part innovative product offerings and packaging upgrades.
These numbers are from Information Resources Inc., and reflect food, drug and mass merchandiser retail sales, excluding ...