FrieslandCampina

 FrieslandCampina Ingredients' organization consists of four strategic segments.

VIDEO: FrieslandCampina Ingredients interview

By Jim Cornall

At Vitafoods in Geneva, Switzerland, DairyReporter spoke with Herman Ermens, managing director of FrieslandCampina Ingredients’ Performance, Active and Medical Nutrition business.

Since 2015, Dutch Lady has hosted educational activities on a balanced diet that includes milk, and doing physical sports daily.

Relentless health and awareness campaigns have won Dutch Lady hearts and minds

Grand old lady of Malaysian milk has dug strong foundations

By Richard Whitehead

If you ask any Malaysian about Dutch Lady milk, they tend to go a little dreamy. It is a brand that evokes their childhoods, taking them back to a gentler, more innocent time, no matter how young or old they are.

FrieslandCampina Ingredients has four components: Early Life Nutrition; Adult Nutrition; Food & Beverages; and Animal Nutrition.

FrieslandCampina relaunches global ingredients company

By Jim Cornall

FrieslandCampina Ingredients, the global ingredient manufacturer division of FrieslandCampina, has introduced its new global segment organization which incorporates its four individual operating companies DOMO, Kievit, DMV and Nutrifeed.

FrieslandCampina sold its cream liqueur company Creamy Creation to Wagram Equity Partners, and it took over W. Bakker Kaashandel B.V.

Acquisition and sale for FrieslandCampina

By Jim Cornall

It was a busy couple of days for Dutch dairy cooperative FrieslandCampina last week, as it first announced the sale of its cream liqueur company Creamy Creation to Wagram Equity Partners, and a day later, its cheese wholesaler Zijerveld, part of FrieslandCampina...

FrieslandCampina acquires second US company

By Beth Newhart

The Dutch Royal FrieslandCampina N.V., a global dairy brand, closes out a busy December with the announcement that it has acquired Best Cheese Corporation USA, importer and vendor of specialty cheeses. It’s the second US company it has picked up this...

Kievit developed concepts for its customers and updated its portfolio of fat powders for the savory market.

FrieslandCampina Kievit studies savory market

By Jim Cornall

Dutch company FrieslandCampina Kievit, a global manufacturer of food and beverage ingredients, has recently conducted a study into trends and developments in the savory market.

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News in Brief

FrieslandCampina Ingredients opens a new São Paulo office

By Stephen Daniells

Dairy giant FrieslandCampina Ingredients is aiming to capitalize more effectively on the growing demand for high-quality ingredients in Latin America with its new new sales office in São Paulo, Brazil.

March was a busy month for launches in dairy aisles around the globe. Pic: ©Getty Images/piixypeach

March: What's new in the dairy aisles?

By Mary Ellen Shoup and Jim Cornall

It's time for our monthly round-up of some of the new products being launched in the dairy aisles around the world.

Multiple companies have acknowledged that dairy farming does contribute a significantly to GHG emmissions, but that they are actively working to minimize their environmental footprint.  ©GettyImages/Grigorenko

Dairy industry disputes GRAIN report on global GHG emissions

By Mary Ellen Shoup

International nonprofit GRAIN has revealed that the world’s top 10 dairy companies emitted roughly 231Mt (million tons) of CO2 in 2016, the equivalent of half of France’s total GHG footprint and a quarter of the emissions emitted by Germany.

The ActiveSG program is aimed at tackling obesity in Singapore.

FrieslandCampina Asia partners on Singapore program

By Jim Cornall

ActiveSG, Singapore’s national movement for sport and physical activity, and FrieslandCampina Asia are to collaborate on Nurture Kids — a new physical activity and nutrition program for preschool children in Singapore.

Managing director, FrieslandCampina WAMCO, Ben Langat; Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Senator Abdullahi Adamu; Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh; and Governor of Kebbi State, Senator Abubakar Bagudu Atiku, during the presentation of a milking machine by the Minister to FrieslandCampina WAMCO in Abuja.

Presentation made to FrieslandCampina WAMCO in Nigeria

By Jim Cornall

Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has donated a portable motorized milking machine to FrieslandCampina WAMCO, while praising the company as the biggest investor in Nigeria’s dairy sector.

Around 1,600 FrieslandCampina farms already have solar panels installed. Pic:©iStock/DutchScenery

FrieslandCampina taps in to dairy farm solar energy

By Jim Cornall

Henk Kamp, Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs, has given out SDE+ (Encouraging Sustainable Energy Production) subsidies of more than €200m ($239m) for the installation of solar panels at the roofs of FrieslandCampina member dairy farms.