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...In January it sold its US organic dairy business, including the flagship Horizon Organic brand, to a private equity group....
...Ireland’s dairy farmers are in crisis....
...But is there hope on the horizon?...
...Precision fermentation allows humans to programme micro-organisms to produce almost any complex organic molecule....
...In the lusty days when the surge of civilisation pushed onward to broader horizon . . . Jemima KellyIn cowboy country . . . Audio clip. . . of man wrested new life from the wilderness . . ....
...copies of cow DNA to create animal-free proteins that, it says, come closer to the taste and texture and taste of milk, ice cream, cheese and yoghurt than the current array of oat, almond, soy and cashew dairy...
...It also pledged to become carbon neutral but this week it raised the yoghurt bar: its Horizon Organic US dairy subsidiary announced plans to become “carbon positive” by 2025 by removing more carbon from...
...The acquisition is set to double Danone’s sales in the US, adding a stable of fast-growing brands, such as the high-end milk Horizon Organic, soyamilk brand Silk and Earthbound Farm organic produce....
...Organic, which French group Danone agreed to buy in July for $12.5bn....
...I avoided Cadbury’s Bournville as a child, knowing that Dairy Milk was better and KitKat better still....
...WhiteWave, whose brands include Silk soy milk and Horizon dairy products, said it would fund the acquisition using existing loans but would take on $500m more debt....
...“There’s so much value to be had from organic growth that you’ve got to question pretty hard I think why you would lash out on an investment,” he said....
...“On a 10-year horizon it’s still a great business,” Mr Yacktman says, adding that PepsiCo is more diversified than Coke and has more room to grow internationally....
...Durant grew up on his family’s dairy farm north of Paris....
...Underlying sweets sales were up 7 per cent with strong performances from Cadbury’s Dairy Milk, Trident chewing gum and Hall’s cough sweets....
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