Sentences with phrase «private label milk»

But this week Fonterra deepened its ties with the retailers, signing a 10 - year contract to supply Woolworths» Select white milk in Victoria in its first entry into the private label milk market.

It found the supermarket policy of selling $ 1 a litre private label milk, while unpopular with farmers, had little overall impact on their earnings.

«We don't think that an increase in the retail price of private label milk would necessarily benefit farmers, and that any additional profit would mainly be captured by the major supermarkets and processors,» Mr Keogh said.

According to Macquarie Equities, Coles will pay Murray Goulburn 10 cents a litre less for private label milk than it currently pays Lion, which will lose contracts in NSW, Victoria and south east Queensland mid next year.

Parmalat is in negotiations with Woolworths over private label milk contracts in NSW and Queensland, which expire in September 2013 and 2014.

Parmalat chief Craig Garvin has joined Woolworths in raising concerns about Coles» $ 2 billion private label milk supply deal with Murray Goulburn Co-op, saying it threatens to divide and disrupt the dairy industry.

Archer toyed with a sale process last year but put that on ice when sentiment soured around the dairy sector after the troubles at Victoria's Murray Goulburn and the public backlash against private label milk at the big supermarket chains Coles and Woolworths.

Pressure is also building on domestic retail margins with cut price private label milk the most vulnerable.

He cited pressure on milk and bread pricing from $ 1 litre private label milk and $ 1 a loaf private label bread as examples of the cumulative effect of anti-competitive decisions.

After operating costs and wastage around 17 per cent, Coles stands to make a small but useful profit on private label milk, which accounts for more than 60 per cent of the retailer's total milk sales.

Private label milk is marginally profitable for the processors, who are estimated to make margins of about 2 to 3 per cent.

A comprehensive look at this situation is provided by the Cornucopia Institute, which just came out with an update to its dairy report; the scorecard rates Trader Joe's private label milk 1 out of 5, stating that TJ's, like other private label marketers, was unwilling to divulge where they got their milk.

The deal will also be more lucrative for Coles, which threw the industry into a spin when it cut the price of private label milk to $ 1 a litre in 2011.

When Coles managing director Ian McLeod unveiled a 10 - year private label milk supply deal with Australia's largest farmer co-operative on Wednesday, he called it a «win - win» situation.

Lion's milk has been squeezed between A2 at the top end of the market and cheap $ 1 litre private label milk at the bottom end, and has lost considerable market share.

In Lion's dairy and drinks division, volumes fell 17.4 per cent on top of a 7.3 per cent decline the previous year, dragged down by the sale of Lion's low - margin everyday cheese business in May and the loss of private label milk contracts with Coles and Woolworths in 2014.

Lion is making nil or very low returns from milk for drinking, as cheap private label milk has taken share from its branded business.

Coles locked a starry - eyed Gary Helou into supplying its private label milk (for 10 years) and cheese (for five years) at barely break - even terms.

He's launching a new discount milk, which will retail «at a slight premium» to Coles $ 1 private label milk, but 20 cents of each sale will be returned to Victoria's dairy sector.

So is changing from buying supermarket private label milk to buying branded milk the answer?

Murray Goulburn and Fonterra also have a strong presence in the milk market, with contracts for the supply of supermarket private label milks.

Not exact matches

Somewhere between 6 - 10 % of milk supplied to Murray Goulburn and Fonterra goes into domestic fresh milk (for drinking milk — both supermarket private label and branded milks - and products like butter and cheese).

The most attractive assets for domestic milk processors are the white milk processing sites that Murray Goulburn invested in to service the Coles private label contracts signed three years ago.

Currently, up to 30 % of the plastic in Müller's fresh milk HDPE bottles are made from recycled material, and plastic bottles used for Müller's branded and private label fresh milk products are already 100 % recyclable.

O'Brien, who remains a director of Simplot until the end of August, says the «daily staples» segment of bread, milk and bottled water would remain under serious pressure and at the mercy of the supermarkets» private - label brands.

The rapid expansion of private label groceries at Coles and Woolworths — where house brands now account for about 20 per cent of packaged grocery sales — has had devastating consequences for some suppliers, particularly in staples such as bread and milk.

The deal will see Synlait Milk exclusively supplying its private - label fresh milk and cream to Foodstuffs South IslMilk exclusively supplying its private - label fresh milk and cream to Foodstuffs South Islmilk and cream to Foodstuffs South Island.

Synlait will exclusively supply private - label milk and cream products to Foodstuffs South Island during the initial phase of the plant's operations.

Bonvita is located in the Netherlands and exports branded products, private label and bulk rice milk chocolate.

Olympia processes around 150 million litres of fresh milk annually, supplied from over 400 local independent farmers, into both fresh and long - life products, supplied under its own brands, private label and as a co-packer.

The group is set to launch an extended shelf - life milk brand called Puriti this summer, following the success of a private label version developed for Tesco.

There are even supermarkets and hypermarkets that have their own brand of UHT milk, which they distribute under private labels and with regional dairy processors as partners.

But the loss of private label volumes will reduce productivity in their branded milk operations, where margins have been squeezed as consumers switch from branded milk to cheap home brand milk.

Last week Coles signed a $ 2 billion - plus private - label milk supply deal with farmer - owned co-ops Murray Goulburn and Norco, squeezing out foreign - owned processors Lion and Parmalat, which will lose private - label contracts next year.

Among the biggest almond - milk sellers are WhiteWave and Blue Diamond, along with retailers like Target and Aldi that have private - label brands.

The first is on the topical issue of home brands: Crying over spilt milk: buyer power and the rise of private labels.

Processor innovation is also behind strong domestic sales growth, with increases in the value and volume of supermarket sales of cheese, dairy spreads and milk (with branded fresh white milk regaining market share from supermarket private labels); while yoghurts and snacks also saw a volume increase.

Coles has announced it will pay 20 per cent more to processors for milk going into its private label brand.

Keytone sells whole and skim milk powder and other dairy powder blends under its own brands, and makes and packages products for supermarkets and retail chains under private labels.

Alexandra Merrett and Rhonda L Smith, «Crying over spilt milk: buyer power and the rise of private labels», (2 July 2012) 1 The State of Competition

A large portion of Harvey Fresh's milk supplies its private label contract with retailer Coles and fresh milk under the Harvey brand.

Coles announced this month that it would reduce prices on a further 100 grocery items under its «Down Down» campaign and cut the price of private label bread and milk in convenience stores to match those in supermarkets.

Market share in the WA market for fresh grocery milk is split among Lion, with 15 per cent, Harvey Fresh, with 20 per cent, Brownes, with about 35 per cent, Coles private label, 13 per cent and Woolworths private label, 10 per cent.

The supermarket giant announced on Wednesday that it had cut the price of more than 100 of its private label products and extended its discounts on Coles brand milk and bread to its Express stores.

Consumer - led boycotts have hit Coles and Woolworths private - label milk, as the retail giants continue to sell the milk at $ 1 per litre, the same price since 2011.

• Retailer - owned private labels are increasingly entering the market e.g. Coles, Woolworths and ALDI in the past few years launched their own organic UHT and / or extended shelf life fresh milks.