Degussa, Parsippany, N.J., a leading global chemical company, opened a new headquarters for its Fruit Systems business in Philadelphia.

Schreiber Foods Inc., plans to expand into a full-line dairy company, and it can't get enough cream cheese.

Bongards' Creameries, Norwood, Minn., has bought Land O'Lakes' Perham, Minn., cheese plant.

Wimm-Bill-Dann, the Russian dairy processor, has disclosed that it is in talks with French Groupe Danone regarding the possibility of an acquisition.

Snow Brand Milk Products Co., Japan, will pay a total of 1.1 million Yen (about $9,600 U.S. dollars) in damages to eight of nine plaintiffs who filed a suit with the court in July 2001 after consuming tainted Snow Brand products.

Rival conglomerates Unilever and Nestle are scrapping for their shares of China's ice cream market, even as competition increases from a number of new and established local players.

It looks like Coca-Cola has figured out what it wants to do with milk, and it's not Choglit.

The International Ice Cream Association (IICA), a constituent organization of IDFA, has petitioned FDA to modernize and improve federal standards governing the manufacture of ice cream and other frozen desserts.

Both Nestle and Dreyer's have said in recent weeks that they remain confident that their $2.8 billion merger will take place, perhaps as soon as mid-June.

President Bush last month restored organic food regulations when he signed into law a nearly $80 billion war spending bill.