The aggressive and hyperactive takeover battle for WCB has seen
the small dairy company's share price rocket from around $ 4 to close to $ 10 in only a few short months, with Lion keen to protect its sizeable National Foods business that owns a portfolio of well know cheeses and milk.
Not exact matches
But with the majority of
dairy farmers supplying to Murray Goulburn and Fonterra, and the bulk of these
companies» operations being focused on milk commodities for export, fresh drinking milk is a very
small part of the picture for most
dairy farmers.
In the
dairy ingredients market, PGP might be a
small player, but the
company is focused on developing products that add nutritional value to a product.
«We're still a
small company compared to our competitors that are nationwide
dairy processors.»
The DAF treatment process at the
dairy company includes a 94,000 L buffer tank, with the floated sludge being collected in a
smaller 30,000 L tank.
Paul Kerr, an executive with
dairy group Murray Goulburn for nearly 30 years, applauded the success of NZ
dairy group A2 but noted it remained a relatively
small company.
There are a number of
smaller processors and acquirers including The Union
Dairy Company (backed by The Midfield Group and global agricultural merchant Louis Dreyfus), Beston, Bega, Australian
Dairy Farmers Corporation and Australian Consolidated Milk.
There are a
small number of independent
companies, which provide home delivery services of our organic
dairy products.
It is important to know that nearly ALL the
dairy from the store is from the WRONG kind of cow, just another reason to not buy products from
companies like Organic Valley and instead seek out
dairy from a
small farm that uses old fashioned cows.
As I've said, if a
small but attractive
dairy brand is plugged into another
company's much larger manufacturing & distribution network, there's v little incremental cost / investment required — therefore, the incremental operating margin to be earned can be pretty substantial (not to talk of the increased revenue potential).
The
company has grown from a
small New England business supplying local
dairy farms to a national business offering more than 15,000 products.
In the late 1800s Portuguese immigrant Constantino Bello, (likely the brother of Antonio Nunes Bello, one of the early Presidents of the IDESST — the Portuguese Social Hall established in Sausalito in 1888), purchased the «Ranch M» property from the Tamalpais Land and Water
Company, and soon thereafter built several wooden structures for a
dairy operation, including a farm house, a creamery, a milking barn and a
small shed.
There are a
small number of independent
companies, which provide home delivery services of our organic
dairy products.