Danone reports sales up 4.5%, fresh dairy sales down year-on-year
Danone has posted a 4.5% year-on-year increase in sales for the second quarter (Q2) of 2015 and sales in the first half (H1) are up 4.6% year-on-year.
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The demand for Ukrainian butter has increased
Generally, now many operators started to stockpile butter, believing the products will hardly be cheaper.
Fonterra to push more milk powder onto market (likely more price pressure)
Prices at this week’s Fonterra Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction could come under further pressure, according to AHDB Dairy’s senior market analyst Patty Clayton.
Ukrainian cheesemakers increase the production
Ukrainian enterprises refuse to diversify the production of cheeses by milk powder. In hope of improvement of market conditions they prefer to risk and produce large volumes of cheeses.
Belarus reach records in milk production
Belarus reach records in milk production, but for today the main problem is where to sell surpluses and to be profitably.
Ukraine and Kazakhstan reached an agreement on milk supplies
During recent negotiations with Kazakhstan in the framework of a multilateral group on its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ukraine and Kazakhstan reached an agreement on the renewal of imports of Ukrainian dairy products to the Kazakhstan market, according to Interfax-Ukraine with a reference to the Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk.
Lactose-free products to be imported into Russia only subject to registration.
Lactose-free dairy products will be imported into Russia only subject to special registration, the Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich stated on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
Russia to close the loophole for traditional cheeses from the EU
Rospotrebnadzor (Federal Service on Customers’ Rights Protection and Human Well-being Surveillance) offers to tighten the rules for the supply of lactose-free dairy products to Russia from the EU. The supervisory authority suggests that European manufacturers use this provision to import traditional cheeses.
Ukrainian Farm-gate price is going down, but slowly
It becomes more free milk in Ukraine and processors have to reduce prices for it in conditions of weak demand for dairy products.
Ukraine: supply of cheese is big, but it does not become cheaper
As a whole the situation looks strange on cheese market. There are big problems with sales, but production is growing, and the prices do not fall at all.