Kraft Foods’ free-standing inserts are featured in this week’s FSI Blog on dairyfoods.com. The 2011 Dairy Foods Processor of the Year promotes four new dairy-based foods, including MilkBites and Philadelphia Indulgence cream cheese in three chocolate flavors.
The cheese processor is energizing old school brands like Philadelphia and Velveeta, developing new foods and formats, and adopting manufacturing practices that save natural resources.
It’s difficult enough for any business to stay relevant, especially when it has brands established 100 or more years ago. Then throw in the challenge of adapting to ever-changing consumer tastes and habits, not to mention manufacturing in an era when a small carbon footprint is a measure of a corporation’s citizenship. That’s part of the landscape in the 21st century, and every business operates in it, some better than others.
Organic Valley has created a national organic brand of dairy foods, including milk, cheese, yogurt and butter. Owned by a cooperative of organic farmers, Organic Valley is the 2010 Processor of the Year.
Organic Valley has created a national organic brand of dairy foods, including milk, cheese, yogurt and butter. Owned by a cooperative of organic farmers, Organic Valley is the 2010 Processor of the Year.
Perhaps the greatest challenge to the modern-day dairy processor is staying relevant to consumers. More deftly than most processors, Wisconsin-based Sargento Foods pushes the envelope and sets an example for a dairy industry striving to keep up with the times.
Publix Super Markets dominates its southeastern U.S. market by
operating the most state-of-the-art stores filled with top-quality
products. Publix Dairy reflects the company’s unique employee-owned
culture by producing the highest-quality dairy products. Chief dairy
and manufacturing executives tell us what makes Publix tick.
2007 Processor of the Year For leading the way in developing new frozen dessert processing technology, creating and maintaining a nationwide manufacturing and distribution infrastructure, developing innovative new products
For more than 60 years, The Dannon Company has helped build the U.S. yogurt market, and now a new leadership team is focusing on high health products in its plan to take that market to a whole new level
Sponsorships: Sponsored by Huhtamaki Co-Sponsored by DMI, Ecolab and Big D
One of Tillamook Cheese's most popular marketing campaigns, vaguely reminiscent of a Monty Python skit, featured a band of Swiss knights out to steal the cheese from Tillamook. "Cheese well worth stealing" went the tagline. Well, if you ask anyone in the organization why Tillamook cheese is worth stealing they'll tell you about the great fresh milk, a cheesemaking process that takes no shortcuts and a workforce that pays close attention to detail.