Blue Bell, Brenham, Texas, added Gingerbread House to its holiday favorites ice cream line. This flavor features cinnamon ice cream, gingerbread pieces, colored sprinkles, miniature marshmallows with a vanilla icing swirl.

Dairy Enterprises Inc., Orrville, Ohio, has expanded its Ruggles line to include low-fat Greek frozen yogurt in six flavors — original tart, vanilla bean, peach, honey, blueberry and strawberry.

Innovative marketing plus effective in-store merchandising and support of its private labels demonstrate that Safeway Inc. has made the leap from thinking about private label as merely a low-price alternative to have on its shelves to treating its private labels as CPG companies treat their brands. The result — private-label sales growth at Safeway is outpacing branded sales growth by a three-to-one margin.

Dallas-based Kaurina’s introduces a frozen dessert street food from India called kulfi.

In a saturated landscape of cheese and dairy farmers in Wisconsin, one little goat farm is doing what it can to stand out with award-winning goat cheese and milk.

Main St. Café, Germantown, Wis., created what’s said to be the first ever shelf-stable bottled protein smoothie made with yogurt.

Safeway Inc. takes the mystery out of making ice cream. At its Bellevue, Wash., ice cream plant, silos, pasteurizers, stainless steel tubing, flavor vats, fillers and other equipment are all labeled as to their contents or function. There is even a label above a hand-crank pencil sharpener. That was put there either for the benefit of a younger generation raised on hand-held devices (instead of pencil and paper) or else it was an expression of an engineer’s sense of humor.

Crave Brothers, a family-owned and-operated dairy farm and cheese factory tucked away in Waterloo, Wis., is garnering attention with its award-winning farmstead cheeses and green story.