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Ready-to-drink dairy/coffee beverages are a huge opportunity for Berner Food and Beverage, a contract manufacturer and private label supplier in Illinois that expanded its dairy plant. 

Retailers are advertising ice cream this week, even though ad numbers declined 5% from last week. The national weighted average advertised price for a package of ice cream is $3.06.

Gehl Foods, Germantown, Wis., unveiled a new logo, look, feel and tone for its cheese sauces sold in foodservice outlets.

Two university students each received $25,000 to support their research into the health impact of yogurt. Erin Davis from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Haley Chatelaine from The Ohio State University were selected from a pool of over 120 applicants by an international committee of scientists in food and nutrition.

There is an organic milk surplus of 50 million gallons. Some of this milk is being sold into conventional milk markets, reports this week’s Dairy Market News from the USDA.

Nearly 6,500 attendees and 3,000 exhibitor personnel participated in the inaugural ProFood Tech trade show in April. Held at McCormick Place in Chicago, the show featured cutting-edge technologies and innovative solutions within the food and beverage industry.

T. Gary Rogers, former chairman and CEO of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream for 30 years, passed away at age 74 on May 2, 2017.

Consumers are guzzling the drinkable cultured dairy options — sales for refrigerated kefir products and shelf-stable yogurt drinks are on the rise. Sales for sour cream are also up. Meanwhile, sales for regular yogurt and cream cheese have dropped.