Two other factors garnering attention from brand marketers are convenience and sustainability. Here’s a look at innovative packaging, including aseptic containers and in-mold labels.
Maximizing product protection, freshness, convenience and shelf appeal govern packaging decisions about dairy foods. These goals are driving interest in aseptic filling, in-mold labeling, single-serving sizes and functional features.
Younger consumers have different perspectives about food. They seek foods that are healthy, convenient, clean label and tasty. Drinkable yogurt can fit all those needs.
For a fermented dairy beverage that originated in the Caucasus Mountains more than 2,000 years ago, kefir sure is having a moment. Innova Market Insights reports that the number of kefir launches grew more than threefold globally between 2011 and 2016. In the United States, beverages featuring kefir accounted for 40% of the drinking yogurt/fermented beverage introductions in 2016.
Growing consumer demand for natural and clean-label products has sparked a movement in the food industry. Specialty and organic retailers are on the rise and mainstream retailers are putting more natural and organic products on the shelf.
Chobani’s mission has been clear from the start: make better food for more people. It emphasizes that just as much today as when the company was founded by chairman and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya in 2007.
Dairy Foods has nominated 14 dairy processing plants which manufacture fluid milk, cheese, ice cream or cultured dairy products. All have been featured on dairyfoods.com over the previous 18 months.
June 1, 2017
Voting has begun to select the Dairy Foods 2017 Dairy Plant of the Year. The 14 U.S. dairy processing companies manufacture fluid milk, cheese, ice cream or cultured dairy products.