Coke's Got Milk in Israel The Central Bottling Company (Coca Cola Israel) is buying out Israel's third-largest dairy for $39 million. Tara Diary Cooperative has annual sales of more than

Nestlé and New Zealand's Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd. are implementing the second phase of what they call Dairy Partners Americas (DPA).

Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Holdings, Inc., has broken ground on a $100 million expansion project that will triple the capacity of its Bakersfield novelty facility, while adding packed ice cream capabilities to the mix.

The Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP) is working to help improve the offering of milk in schools through a new program it calls "Capturing the School Milk Opportunity."

Fashion icon Gucci Corp., shocked its own industry recently by naming an ice-cream executive CEO. Robert Polet, 48, will take over as chief executive on July 1. Polet, a Unilever

Snow Brand Milk Products Co. Ltd., still struggling to recover from a food poisoning scandal, reported its first annual profit in five years after extensive restructuring.

Two of the Northeast region's largest dairy cooperatives, Allied Federated Cooperatives, and Agri-Mark, have signed an agreement to work together to market their milk.

With considerable assistance from the dairy checkoff program, McDonald's appears to be done clowning around about milk.

Corn Products International, Inc. Westchester, Ill., and GTC Nutrition LLC, Golden Colo., have formed a strategic alliance to focus on specialty ingredients for the food, nutraceutical and animal feed industries.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced legislation in the House of Representatives to extend the Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC) for two more years.