Harvey Fresh has been awarded the contract to supply Coles brand milk in Western Australia for the next three years. Harvey Fresh, a privately-owned manufacturer of freshly squeezed fruit juices, dairy...

New Zealand dairy group Fonterra has appointed former Friesland Foods executive Theo Spierings as its CEO.The dairy co-operative said today (14 July) that Spierings would replace departing CEO Andrew Ferrier...

Lactalis has claimed it has become the world’s largest maker of dairy products, after the French company sealed the takeover of Italian rival Parmalat, owner of Australian milk brand Paul’s. After...

New Zealand milk producer A2 Corporation Limited has annouced that construction is underway on a new processing facility in south-west Sydney, to meet the growing demand for a2 Milk in Australia. Production...

Lactalis, the French dairy company, now owns over half of its Italian rival Parmalat, owner of Australian milk brand Paul’s, as the EUR3.4 billion takeover of the business edges closer.Today is the...

UK retailer Marks and Spencer has revealed plans to launch a brand of “healthier” milk in October, with 6% less saturated fat due to a diet for cows that removes all palm oil from their feed.M&S...

Woolworths has announced plans to source all its own-label fresh milk products from Parmalat in NSW, a move the company said is not related to its ‘milk war’ with Coles. The company has moved...

Floods, cyclones, and prolonged wet weather are expected to cut some 40 million litres from milk production in the seven months to June 2011 in the northern production region, with production for the first...

The European Commission has cleared Lactalis’s proposed acquisition of fellow dairy group Parmalat, producer of Australian milk brand Paul’s.Lactalis has made a EUR3.4bn (US$4.91bn) takeover...

Parmalat has recalled its one-litre plastic bottles of Pura Milk full cream with a use-by of 15 June, after the company said it believed the batch had been contaminated with “a small amount”...