Ireland’s Kerry Group contributes $750,000 to a pilot program called “Project Leche.” The dairy is working with the World Food Program to improve the diets of schoolchildren. 

Dairy Foods is looking for the 2017 Exporter of the Year. Companies may nominate themselves or other companies. Nominations can be made by suppliers, consultants, association executives and others allied with the dairy industry. The deadline is Aug. 11. 

California cheesemaker Sonoma Creamery receives  a $10 million equity investment from Svoboda Capital Fund.

 ACON Investments completed an equity recapitalization of Borden Dairy Co., an iconic American dairy brand  with 13 facilities across the United States.

BelGioioso Cheese’s marketing campaign spanned magazine, television, and digital and social media advertising. Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese was profiled on a popular TV show and won state fair honors.

HP Hood bought an idle yogurt plant from Dairy Farmers of America, and announces plans to make ESL beverages there. In addition, it will invest more than $200 million and create 230 jobs.

America’s top five ice cream flavors are vanilla, chocolate, cookies n’ cream, mint chocolate chip and chocolate chip cookie dough. IDFA served nearly 70 flavors of ice cream and thousands of root beer floats at its annual Capitol Hill Ice Cream Party.

The 2017 Dairy Foods Plant of the Year is a Cabot Creamery plant in Vermont, owned by the dairy cooperative Agri-Mark. 

Dairy brands Land O’Lakes, Breyers and Yoplait are again deemed the Most Trusted in BrandSpark International’s annual survey of 10,000 American shoppers. 

The deadline to enter the World Dairy Expo Championship Dairy Product Contest is July 21. Dairy processors can enter milk, ice cream, cheese, yogurt and other dairy-based foods and beverages.