Milk and dairy products are back in the stratosphere.

Minneapolis-based General Mills introduces another omega-3-enhanced kids’ yogurt product under the Yoplait brand.

It looks like the rising price of milk is beginning to have an effect on sales. 

Packaging is fast becoming the new product enabler. Consumers are looking for taste, convenience, nutrition, and healthy alternatives-and they are willing to pay for these benefits. 

Hats off to folks in the dairy beverage business. It’s been a very good decade. The dividends have really started to ring up in the register.

Lifeline Food Co., Seaside, Calif., introduces Lifetime Body Smart for Women.

Smith Dairy Products Company may be best known for its Yellow Super Jug and Moovers milk, or perhaps for its Ruggles Premium ice cream. 

Minneapolis-based General Mills is rolling out Yoplait Yo-Plus Yogurt, which is described as a way to help naturally regulate digestive health.

Milk sales continue to head in the right direction, albeit not at the same pace as they were in the first half of 2006. Refrigerated iced tea is still the juggernaut of the beverage business, and there are some changes underway in the refrigerated juice category, although orange juice still really rules the roost.

 A couple of monster brands in ice cream and yogurt are proving that innovation, combined with lots of marketing, can still stir up dairy’s relatively mature categories. Also, keeping an eye toward dairy’s big middle, another quarter of growth in the milk category has been reported by Information Resources Inc.