Lifeway Foods, Inc., Morton Grove, Ill., last month reported record revenues of $3.78 million for its second quarter, or an increase of about 25%, versus $3 million in the same quarter last year.

Foremost Farms USA plans to shutter four cheese plants and a warehouse facility.

There may be a silver lining to lower cheese prices, at least in the robust shredded cheese category.

Vietnam's Kinh Do Confectionery Co. has acquired the local Wall's ice cream business from Unilever for an undisclosed sum.

Michael Keown has joined the Dean Foods Co., as president, Dean Branded Products Group.

As seasonal ice cream business reached its peak in July, Oberweis Dairy, North Aurora, Ill., piloted a four-part television ad campaign on Chicago-area network and cable programs.

The Kroger Co. is launching its own brand of premium-quality natural and organic products.

As dairy processing facilities have become more automated, sanitation equipment has stayed right in step, or even lead the way.

McNeil Nutritionals, Fort Washington, a division of McNeil-PPC Inc., says its Splenda[r] No Calorie Sweetener has become the top-selling low/no-calorie sweetener in United States retail outlets just two and a half years after its introduction.

A taxpayer-funded program to help dairy farmers cope with slumping milk prices will likely cost billions of dollars more than expected, from an original cost of $1.3 billion to a new estimate of as much as $4 billion, a federal official said last month.