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Milk

ASEAN Business

Dairy duty: Indonesia presses businesses to find a million cows

A2 is separately selling its 75% stake in Mataura Valley Milk for NZ$100 million and subject to completion of both deals it intends to pay a NZ$300 million special dividend.
Consumer & Healthcare

A2 Milk to buy New Zealand formula plant to target China growth

epa12237495 Cows in the pasture at the dairy farm of Jelle Vink, in Spaarndam, North Holland, Netherlands, 14 July 2025. The Hollands Agrarisch Jongeren Kontakt (HAJK) and Biologisch Noord-Holland signed an agreement committing to a 30 percent overall nitrogen reduction by 2035. EPA/REMKO DE WAAL
Opinion & Features

A looming dairy drought will stunt the world’s growth

Traditional milk sales are up 3.5 per cent for the year to May in dollar terms, according to Nielsen IQ.
Opinion & Features
THE BOTTOM LINE

How milk got its mojo back

Fonterra announced in May it was considering turning away from branded consumer products to concentrate on making more high-value ingredients.
Companies & Markets

Fonterra to assess IPO as one option for consumer unit sale

China’s dairy industry has also struggled to meet Beijing’s 2018 call to educate consumers to move from drinking milk to “eating milk” to increase dairy consumption.
Energy & Commodities

China dairy farms swim in milk as fewer babies, slow economy cut demand

Chinese milk production has surged 40 per cent in the past decade, creating massive oversupply as the economy struggles to regain its footing and consumption shrinks
International

China targets EU dairy just as its own milk industry flounders

Cows in an open field near Tavis Air Force Base in Solano County, Calif., on Aug. 24, 2023. A company called Flannery Associates has been purchasing large amounts of land in the area. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
International

H5N1 strain of bird flu found in milk: WHO

Infant milk on sale in a supermarket on 11 December 2014. Milk powder companies Abbott, Nestle, Wyeth Nutrition, FrieslandCampina and Mead Johnson attributed high prices to factors such as product innovation, nutrition research – which makers of simpler dairy products might not do as much – and rising business costs.
International

World food price index falls in October, says FAO

The US FDA pulled up there companies for failing to establish processes to ensure infant formula does not become contaminated during manufacturing.
Consumer & Healthcare

US FDA warns 3 baby formula makers to correct manufacturing process controls

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