British supermarkets and dairy processors were accused last month of fixing the price of milk, butter and cheese. The British government’s Office of Fair Trading said it believed the sharing

Once again we present a snapshot of the global bigwigs in dairy. The players are the same as last year, but the order has changed. Nestlé remains the top dairy

Kraft chief executive Irene Rosenfeld recently warned of a possible drop in milk consumption as soaring milk prices cause consumers to eat and drink fewer dairy products.

Illinois investor/dairy processor/politician Jim Oberweis announced late last month that he hopes to succeed retiring former House Speaker Dennis Hastert in Congress.

The Kroger Co., one of the nation’s largest retail grocery chains, has launched a new cholesterol-reducing, fat-free milk, and announced plans to go rBST-free.

ORRVILLE, Ohio-Smith Dairy Products Company has introduced a new Ruggles Organic Premium Ice Cream line, with four new flavors.

The founder of All Star Dairy Association, John Davis Utterback died in Los Altos, Calif., May 18. He was 88.

Compromises Reached in House Farm Bill 

The Danone International Prize for Nutrition was recently awarded in Paris to Jeffrey Friedman, M.D., Marilyn M. Simpson Professor at Rockefeller University and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, for his outstanding research on the role of genetics and leptin, a hormone he discovered, in body weight regulation. 

A partnership designed to push the envelope of beverage milk distribution and marketing has come to premature conclusion.