Kraft Foods Inc., plans to axe 6,000 jobs or 6% of its staff, and close up to 20 plants over the next three years in a global turnaround plan expected to cost $1.2 billion.

Having already authored a diet book, relationship guru Dr. Phil McGraw is now getting his feet wet in dairy.

The dairy industry now has its own Enron.

A new label claim related to the Healthy Weight with Dairy campaign is being licensed to processors through IDFA and Dairy Management Inc.

The dairy industry appears to have remained unscathed after the first U.S. case of Mad Cow disease was discovered in the U.S. in December

Glanbia Foods says it is poised to begin construction on its new $190 million cheese and whey plant to be located Portales N.M.

More than 500 industry leaders gathered in Boca Raton, Fla. last month for IDFA's Dairy Forum. It was among the largest turnouts ever.

Compass DesignThe new Glanbia Foods partnership, Southwest Cheese Co., USA has awarded contracts for $70 million of its new cheese and whey production facility to Carlisle Process Systems (CPS), Winsted,

Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Holdings is launching its largest marketing campaign ever to introduce to consumers a new technology said to make low fat frozen products taste like superpremium.

The first-time appearance of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or "mad cow disease," in the United States is likely to renew debate in Washington over food inspection regulations, and many industry representatives see some type of increased regulatory scrutiny in the works.