Ahold Delhaize USA, Danone North America and The Nature Conservancy have launched a collaborative pilot program aimed at improving sustainability in dairy farming. The initiative will work with select dairy farms in Danone North America’s yogurt product supply chain to reduce methane emissions, strengthen on-farm resilience and enhance supply chain sustainability. Over the next five […]
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French Yogurt Brand La Fermière Fortifies U.S. Operations
Since entering the U.S. market eight years ago, French yogurt company La Fermière has maintained a 35-40 percent year-over-year growth rate. In 2024, the brand sold about 16 million ceramic pots of yogurt and oven-baked crème desserts. The company has a manufacturing plant in New York, as well as a newly opened West Coast facility […]
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Kite Hill Launches Two New Plant-Based Platforms
Kite Hill, a San Francisco Bay Area plant-based food company, recently launched two new products, including a line of coconut milk-based yogurts and a plant-based sour cream. “Kite Hill is an amazing brand with a really strong and loyal following that continues to grow every day,” said Rob Leibowitz, CEO. “Our passionate consumers and retail partners […]
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Chobani Expands To Offer Oat-Based Products, Natural Dairy Creamers
Chobani, America’s No. 1 Greek yogurt brand, is debuting an entire platform of batch-made oat-based drinks and cultured oat blends, as well as dairy-based creamers. “Like yogurt, oats are an ancient food with deep roots in our culture and our land. These grains deserve to be celebrated,” said Hamdi Ulukaya, founder and CEO of Chobani. “I […]
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Hiland Dairy Introduces New Fruit And Yogurt Probiotic Smoothies
Hiland Dairy has introduced a new fruit and probiotic smoothie in seven flavors. The drinkable yogurt is packaged in a 7-oz. bottle. The smoothie is available in Strawberry Banana, Peach, Piña Colada, Strawberry, Mango, Guanábana and Pecan Cereal flavors. The new Hiland Dairy Probiotic Smoothie provides live and active cultures, 6g of protein, 14 percent daily […]
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Chobani Unveils Innovation And Community Center In Twin Falls, Idaho
Chobani LLC, the Norwich, New York-based Greek yogurt maker and the second largest overall yogurt manufacturer in the U.S., has opened the new 71,000-s.f. innovation and community center in Twin Falls, Idaho. “I’m grateful for the bond we share with the people of the Magic Valley,” says Hamdi Ulukaya, founder and CEO of Chobani. “It […]
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Lactalis Group Acquires Ehrmann’s U.S. Yogurt Division
Lactalis Group in Buffalo, New York, has acquired Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy, the U.S. yogurt business of Ehrmann AG, a Bavaria, Germany-based dairy company. The acquisition was completed on July 5. Established in 2009, Ehrmann Commonwealth Dairy has two state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities that employ 250 people in Brattleboro, Vermont, and Casa Grande, Arizona. The plants manufacture […]
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Chobani Launches Yogurt For Kids In Fun Packaging And Flavors
Chobani LLC, based in Norwich, New York, has launched Chobani Gimmies, a new line of Greek Yogurt snacks for kids. “Options today are lousy or impractical. It’s either junk food that parents don’t want their kids to eat or food that’s designed for adults that kids don’t want to eat. We wanted to break that cycle, […]
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Stonyfield Organic Rolls Out Yogurt Snack Packs
Stonyfield Organic is introducing three new snacking options featuring a duo of organic lowfat yogurt paired with either organic graham crackers or organic pretzels for dipping. The Organic Snack Packs are the latest addition to Stonyfield’s kid-friendly lineup of organic yogurt, pouches, smoothies, tubes and string cheese. “With back-to-school just around the corner, our Snack […]
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Yogurt Sales Approach $9B At Retail, Growth Expected Through 2022
In its new report, “The Yogurt Market and Yogurt Innovation, 3rd Edition,” market research firm Packaged Facts estimates retail dollar sales in the U.S. yogurt industry were just shy of $9 billion in 2017. Sales increased at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2 percent between 2012 and 2017. In recent years, U.S. consumers have embraced […]
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Danone Selling Stonyfield To Lactalis For $875 Million
Danone has a binding agreement to sell Stonyfield, one of its U.S. dairy subsidiaries, to Lactalis for $875 million. The divestiture is part of an agreement reached earlier this year with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in connection with Danone’s acquisition of WhiteWave. The closing is expected in the third quarter of this year. Stonyfield is […]
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General Mills, Organic Valley To Aid Dairy Farms Transition To Certified Organic
General Mills last week announced a strategic sourcing partnership with the largest organic cooperative in the U.S. that will help about 20 dairy farms add around 3,000 acres to organic dairy production over the next three years. The program with Wisconsin-based Organic Valley will drive more acres in the U.S. into the organic certification process […]