Welcome to Jim Carper's Dairy Case, a weekly round-up of news from dairy processors. In this issue: weekly butter and cheese prices, Dunkin' Donuts' new cheese sandwich, Fair Oaks Dairy Products, Golden Glen Creamery, Rita's Franchise Co. and 11 good reasons to eat and dDrink dairy products.
Harpak-ULMA’sextensive experience in the dairy industry includes a wide variety of packaging solutions, from packaging applications for cheese to yogurt and everything in between.
International Dairy Ingredients released cheasing’up, which avoids the processing of by-products and reduces the number of manufacturing steps (no curd cutting, draining or brining).
Win Schuler Foods, Southfield, Mich., introduced Lia Marie’s Original Garlic Spread and Five Cheese Garlic Spread. Both spreads, which are made with butter and cheese, among other ingredients, are available in 12-ounce tubs and merchandised near butter in the refrigerated dairy case.
Elk Grove Village, Ill.-based Bel Brands USA, a subsidiary of Fromageries Bel, a family-owned cheesemaker headquartered in Paris, extends its world-renowned Boursin Gournay cheese brand to flavored premium spreadable cheeses. Garlic & Herbs (the flavor of the original Boursin cheese) was the first to debut about a year ago.
For a child in the 1980s, string cheese was the ultimate must-have lunch snack. The simple act of peeling strings away from a cylindrical-shaped “stick” was both exciting and innovative and transformed the way consumers eat cheese.
