Saputo has completed the acquisition of the Carolina Aseptic and Carolina Dairy businesses formerly operated by AmeriQual Group Holdings. These businesses, which join Saputo’s Dairy Division (USA) under its USA Sector, are conducted at two facilities in North Carolina and employ approximately 230 people. The purchase price of US$118 million (approximately CDN$149 million), on a cash-free and debt-free basis, was paid in cash at closing.
The results are in for this year’s World Dairy Expo Championship Dairy Product Contest. In all, there were 267 winners, and with its 47 awards, or 18% of total awards, Prairie Farms had more wins than any competing company, including the top honor of Grade A Grand Champion for Regular Small Curd Cottage Cheese.
Good Culture has launched its first-ever lactose-free line and a squeezable, classic sour cream pouch. The new products are made with simple ingredients, including gut-friendly live and active cultures as well as pasture-raised milk sourced from small family farms in the Midwest. These new products can be found in retailers nationwide this summer.
Westby Cooperative Creamery has added an all-natural sour cream squeezable pouch to its retail line of dairy products. It will be available in select grocery stores starting this month.
The a2 Milk Company, one of the fastest growing premium milk brands in the U.S., has just introduced a half-and-half product made with all-natural a2 Milk and cream that delivers better taste, better protein and better digestibility than its counterparts. That’s because, like all of the company’s products, the new a2 Milk Half and Half is made from cows that naturally produce only the A2 protein rather than the combination of A1 and A2 proteins contained in most dairy products.
Throughout the month of July, America’s favorite dessert takes center stage during National Ice Cream Month, and Crystal Creamery has plenty of delicious flavors to help you celebrate. The newest addition to the ice cream lineup, Birthday Cake, boasts a cake batter ice cream base with cake pieces and rainbow sprinkles throughout – a tribute to Crystal Creamery’s 120th year in business.
To celebrate the successful first year of fairlife Light Ice Cream and ring in National Ice Cream Month, the brand is shining a spotlight on its two newest flavors – Butter Pecan and Cookie Dough.
GEA has built a new cheese making plant for dairy brand Madeta in the Czech Republic. The new plant, which has a staff of 150, can process up to 400,000 liters of milk a day – twice the capacity of the company's former facility.
La Vaquita, Houston’s #1 Hispanic cheese brand, today announced its expansion into the butter category. Made with pure cow’s milk with no added growth hormones and no artificial ingredients, this new butter offers a fresh, creamy flavor for a variety of cooking and baking needs.
Tillamook County Creamery Association (TCCA) is pleased to announce Peggy Han as its new Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (EVP/CFO). In this role, Han will oversee and manage controllership, financial planning and analysis, tax, treasury, and information technology. Han brings more than 25 years of financial leadership experience and a lifetime of love for the Tillamook brand to the EVP/CFO position.
