Cold Stone Creamery, Scottsdale, Ariz., plans to be the top-selling ice cream brand in the country within five years, said CEO Doug Ducey, while speaking last month at a meeting of a local business group in Arizona.

Scholle Corp., has acquired 100% of the shares of Flextainer SA, a French company that specializes in liquid packaging systems, particularly for the wine industry. The two companies have worked

Ben & Jerry's added its own political/enviro message to January's inauguration activities in Washington. The Vermont-based ice cream maker took out newspaper ads encouraging Washington policy makers to put aside

Consumer Exposure The latest messages on the health benefits of dairy are getting good play in the consumer press. The University of Tennessee weight loss research and other positive science

A disagreement over the importance of pasture access has led to a dispute about what constitutes organic milk, and the battlegrounds are being drawn in Colorado.

Saturday morning TV may soon have fewer ads for cookies, sugary drinks, and sweetened cereal, if Kraft Foods follows through on a plan to curb advertising of such foods to children 6 to 11 years old.

On March 2-4 industry leaders will gather in Arizona to discuss frozen desserts. IDFA's Ice Cream Technology Conference offers an interactive and open discussion of the latest technologies and regulatory hurdles to the ice cream industry. IDFA staff, leading professionals and researchers will lead the discussion.

Dairy Farmers of America, Kansas City, Mo., has bought out its partners at Keller's Creamery LP.

Prison Milk Facilities Design Inc., has been hired by the Virginia Department of Corrections to manage and engineer a $5 million conversion of a prison laundry at Powhatan state prison

A final test was likely to confirm a second U.S. case of mad cow disease, as this issue of Dairy Foods went to press. This is according to a Reuters