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Article: Yogurt still growing, natural cheese fades.(dairy market trends)(Statistical data)
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- Dairy Foods
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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Two of the best performing categories of recent years seem to have taken two different paths in recent months, at least in terms of food store sales.
According to the latest numbers from Information Resources Inc., yogurt sales continue to grow at a respectable pace, although that growth has slowed a bit. But natural cheese, which experienced 9% dollar growth for a while in 2004, is now losing ground in terms of both dollar and unit sales.
These numbers are for food, drugstore and mass merchandisers, not including Wal-Mart.
The yogurt figures include both cup yogurt and yogurt drinks. Yogurt drinks are not shown separately here but according to ...