US cheese exports have risen 30% over the last six months compared to the same period last year, with cheese shipments to Mexico, Australia, Japan, and the Middle East/North Africa increasing by double- to triple-digits in volume sales, according to USDEC.
E-commerce is now the main entry point for dairy imports into China, having achieved a two-thirds share of the entire consumer market for dairy imports in 2016.
Prabhat Dairy is seeking to expand its consumer business across India in a bid to achieve annual sales of 20 billion rupees (US$307.2m) by financial year 2019-2020.
Malta Dairy Products Ltd., producers of Benna fresh milk and Benna fresh milk products, has updated its logo and launched a variety of products into the Maltese market.
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.
A roundtable organized by the Dairy Union of Kazakhstan and the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs and supported by the EBRD and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) was held in Astana recently.
Singapore supermarket chain FairPrice has launched a house-brand low-cost infant formula range in the wake of consumer and government complaints about the rising cost of branded milk products.
Serac has seen growing success with Combox, its packaging production and filling technology in a single block unit, within dairy for cartons, pouches, cups and bottles.
In August, Mexican dairy company Grupo Lala, S.A.B. de C.V., announced its acquisition of the Brazilian company Vigor Alimentos, S.A., which includes its shareholding in Itambé Alimentos, S.A.
South America boasts a dynamic dairy sector replete with opportunities for growth and development. While 2016 was an incredibly challenging year for many stakeholders across the dairy chain, so far, 2017 has proven to be a year of recovery and improvement.
