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General Mills has re-aligned its dairy strategic brand unit (SBU). The Dairy SBU, led by Olivier Faujour, will report to President and COO Jeff Harmening.

The competitive grocery retail landscape is quickly changing and there are two primary trends behind this changing environment: a changing consumer, who is bringing new purchase decision triggers into the marketplace, and a changing competitive marketplace which has put new pressures on traditional grocery retailers.

The U.S. Marshals Service seize dry nonfat milk powder and buttermilk powder worth nearly $4 million produced by Valley Milk Products, a unit of the Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association. 

3-A Sanitary Standards Inc. says that a number of Chinese companies are displaying its trademarked 3-A Symbol without authorization. Dairy processors should verify that equipment meets the 3-A SSI’s sanitary design and fabrication criteria.

Dean Foods and the dairy cooperative CROPP (owner of the Organic Valley brand), are partnering in to bring organic milk to retailers through Dean Foods' processing plants and direct store delivery distribution system.

Dairy processors report quarterly sales. They increased for Lifeway Foods, Kraft Heinz and Land O’Lakes.

Any dairy farmer can attest that contented cows give better milk. But how satisfied are employees of dairy processing firms? Are they happy where they are working, or are they job hopping?

Nestle reported sales increased to CHF 65.5 billion for the first nine months of the year. Danone also reported that sales increased through three quarters of 2016.

Ice cream made with cookie dough inclusions supplied by Aspen Hills is recalled by at least four U.S. dairy processors due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.