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Watch out bars and shakes, there’s a new way to get concentrated whey proteins: cheese sauce.

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.

Ethnic dairy foods are emerging into the mainstream. Processors exhibiting at the German tradeshow Anuga Oct. 8-12 sampled their new products, including those with appeal to consumers from southwest Asia and central Europe.

In France, the Kraft Philadelphia brand can be found on a new limited, winter-edition cream cheese.

For the winter holidays, Target Corp., Minneapolis, debuted private label Market Pantry Whipped Cream Cheese Spread in a Brown Sugar Cinnamon variety.

Bel Brands USA is offering Boursin Limited Edition Apple, Cranberry & Cinnamon gournay cheese this holiday season.

A focus on face-to-face service and long-term customer relationships makes Leprino Foods Co., Denver, a global leader in cheese and ingredients.

Whether it’s raw cheeses, unusually flavored options or a portion-control size, today’s cheese processors introduce a slew of crafty innovations.

Processors find that smoother sailing on the export seas depends on managing global price volatility.