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Employees at Associated Milk Producers Inc.'s (AMPI) Sanborn, Iowa, plant might be seeing double, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with their vision. Instead, it's a reflection of a [...]

Much has changed for kefir producer Lifeway Foods Inc. since Russian immigrant Michael Smolyansky founded the company in his basement in 1986. Michael Smolyansky died in 2002, and his children, [...]

When Lifeway Foods Inc. purchased the former Golden Guernsey fluid milk plant in Waukesha, Wis., at a bankruptcy auction in 2013, it faced an uphill battle in readying it for [...]

You won't find any fancy feeder hoppers or blenders in Praline's Inc.'s Wallingford, Conn., ice cream processing, distribution and headquarters facility. The company believes that the old-fashioned methods still yield [...]

Compared to many other ice cream processors, Wallingford, Conn.-based Praline's Inc. runs a rather small operation. The 34-year-old company got its start with a single Praline's ice cream store in [...]

A growing number of food and beverage processors claim to be part of the local food movement. But for many of them, the definition of 'local' is a bit of [...]

You won't find any fancy-looking equipment at the creamery operated by Phoenix-based Danzeisen Dairy LLC. Tucked into a mixture of farm, industrial and residential properties in Phoenix's Laveen neighborhood, the [...]

Emmi Roth could be described as the Apple Inc. of the cheese-making world. Like Apple--especially in its early days--the Fitchburg, Wis.-based company is willing to innovate and take risks in [...]

When it comes to cheese trends with staying power for 2018, think all natural, artisanal and organic. Those are the top three cheese-related trends, according to Dairy Foods' 2018 Cheese [...]

CONSUMERS ARE DEMANDING more from their dairy product favorites--as in more dean labels, value-added ingredients, portability and sugar reduction. It's fascinating then, to see these themes play out across leading [...]

Wisconsin produces more cheese than any other state, making more than 3 billion pounds of the savory dairy favorite in 2016 alone, according to the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board. And [...]

Demand for protein on the part of consumers continues to be strong. According to the American Dairy Products Institute (ADPI), Elmhurst, Ill., 68% of Americans surveyed in 2017 said they [...]

Sustainability means different things to different people and organizations, considering environmental, economic and social aspects. Although the term has no 'official' definition, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that [...]

It's no secret that food recalls can wreak havoc on a dairy processing company, damaging both sales and brand reputation. And one of the major causes of food recalls across [...]

Pumps are widely used within dairy processing facilities to transfer liquids, gases and slurries by mechanical action. Valves, meanwhile, control the flow of such products via opening/closing different passageways. At [...]

For Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), the definition of success is simple. It means delivering value back to its 13,000-plus dairy farmer owners and adding value to the marketplace by [...]

Ice cream's recent comeback--which began in earnest last year--shows no signs of waning. Retail sales of ice cream in the United States rose a respectable 3.9% to $6.1 billion during [...]

It's no secret that per-capita liquid milk consumption has been on the decline in the United States for many years. In fact, Americans consumed 93 pounds less of the dairy [...]

Limited shelf life has long been a challenge for many refrigerated food and beverage segments, and the dairy sector is no exception. But extended shelf life (ESL) and aseptic processing [...]

According to the Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP), milk remains a key shopping trip driver, with 95% of U.S. households buying milk--and doing so an average of 30 times per [...]

In an environment in which convenience store chains tend to lag far behind supermarket, drugstore and other chains when it comes to private label product and program development, 7-Eleven Inc. [...]

The call for entries for the first-ever Milk Marketer of the Year competition, a joint awards program from Dairy Foods and the Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP), drew an impressive [...]

Some dairy plants can't keep up with growing sales, while others find themselves with excess capacity. Contract manufacturing is proving to be a boon to both. More than half of [...]

Dairy processors rely heavily on in-house instrumentation to support their in-plant quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) efforts. However, they are not necessarily getting all they could out of [...]

It's been a year since we last published our annual Dairy 100. To say the 12 months in between have been eventful for the dairy industry would be quite the [...]

Innovations to consumer-ready dairy products such as yogurt, ice cream and cheese get plenty of attention. Innovations to dairy ingredients? Not so much. But such innovations can be game-changing for [...]

In June, Dairy Foods sadly lost its long-time publisher, Tom Imbordino. He died unexpectedly at the age of 59. Under Tom's leadership, Dairy Foods expanded its reach far beyond the [...]

Although it was founded decades ago, the Silk plant-based product brand has been part of Danone North America--headquartered in White Plains, N.Y., and Broomfield, Colo.--since 2017. Silk products, therefore, are [...]

Dairy processing facilities have oodles of data potentially available to them, including data tied to quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC). But collecting, monitoring and disseminating those QA/QC data [...]

The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) announced the roster of its inaugural NextGen leadership class, a group of 13 up-and-coming professionals in the dairy industry who have been identified by [...]

The past year brought challenges to many North American dairy processors, from tariffs threatening export sales to a growing array of dairy alternatives squeezing limited shelf space. Some dairy processors [...]

What's green and good and misunderstood all over? Yes, it's a twist on that tired old black, white and red riddle, but do you know the answer? If you guessed [...]

Despite the good news of an economic recovery on the horizon, many consumers continue to hold back on spending when it comes to what they eat --and are cooking at [...]

Dairy processors have long relied on pasteurization, which applies mild heat to a product for a set amount of time, to eliminate pathogens and extend the shelf life of products. [...]

You might call Smart & Final Stores LLC a nonconformist when it comes to food retailing. The company's unique mix of warehouse and natural/organic food stores caters to a customer [...]

As fans of 'The Office' might recall, Michael Scott, the bumbling branch manager of the fictional Dunder Mifflin paper enterprise, once promised 'limitless paper for a paperless world' in a [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Over the past couple of decades, North American consumers have gained a reputation for overindulging their wee ones to one extent or another. Only the "best" would do […]

Despite all the economic gloom and doom, some U.S. retailers actually are managing to grow both revenues and profits. Consider the U.S. operations of the Brussels, Belgium-based Delhaize Group, for [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Despite the dismal economy, consumers still appear to be topping their toast with fruit spreads and adding the "J" to their PB&J sandwiches. What they increasingly refuse to […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] During wonderfully "simpler" times just five or six years ago, beverages essentially fell into a few very broad categories--milk, juice, alcoholic/mixers, soda and bottled water. But subsegments of […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With much of today's entertaining taking place inside the home--thanks to shrinking disposable incomes and other economic worries--the demand for fun-minded snack fare and beverages is up. And […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The skeptics among us who question the accuracy of recent headlines pointing to a resurgence in home cooking might want to think again. If half-empty restaurants are not […]

In this brave new world of private label--a world in which "me-too" items increasingly are giving way to unique offerings--the word "innovative" often is used to describe a particularly compelling […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] While many other retailers have seen sales tumble during this painful, prolonged recession, Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (Walmart) has been bucking the downtrend. The world's largest retailer […]

You likely won't notice many major changes between this year's and last year's Top 25 lists of leading U.S. and Canadian grocers, drugstores and mass merchandisers. Sure, a couple of […]

Faced with rising grocery prices--and job losses, temporary layoffs or salary reductions--many consumers have been forced to make tough decisions related to weekly food purchases. Not surprisingly, cookies and crackers, […]

The title "colonel" can evoke several different images. To some, colonel refers to a well-dressed, refined Southern gentleman who is as well-aged as the bourbon he sips. To others, it […]

We could say that 2009 is shaping up to be a big year for the Montvale, N.J.-based Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Inc. (A&P), but that would be a […]

Thanks to wider availability of fresh and frozen varieties, canned fruit and vegetables have been on a downward spiral for some years now. According to a September 2008 report to […]