Milma looks to new products, including baby food, to match competition
The Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (KCMMF), which sells milk and milk products under the Milma brand, is looking to new value-added products, including baby food, to meet challenges from both private brands and milk cooperatives. The slew of new value-added products will add a new chapter to the history of the apex milk cooperative […]
Milk Food to expand into ice cream, cheese
Milk Food Ltd., a renowned for its cutting-edge facilities and high-capacity dairy products. Its core products, Milk Powders and Pure Ghee, have been synonymous with trust and excellence for decades has announced the sale of its 21-acre Moradabad plant land to a reputed developer for an estimated value of INR 140 to 150 crore. The […]
HUL ice-cream business demerger clears first hurdle after board nod
The board of directors of Hindustan Unilever (HUL) on Monday gave an in-principle approval to demerge the ice-cream business into an independent listed entity. Subject to necessary approvals and procedures, shareholders of HUL will receive shares in the new entity in proportion to their shareholding in the company, HUL said in a release. For the […]
HUL constitutes committee to evaluate ice cream business
Fast-moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) giant Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) has constituted a committee, comprising its independent directors, to evaluate its ice cream business. The committee will evaluate the prospects of HUL’s ice cream business and will make recommendations to the board. “This follows the announcement, earlier this year, by the Company’s parent entity, Unilever PLC, about its […]
Testing the viability of using horse(mare) milk to make ice cream
A team of food scientists at West Pomeranian University of Technology, in Poland, has found that using horse (mare) milk instead of cow milk to make ice cream is a viable food choice. In their study, published on the open-access site PLOS ONE, the group created four ice cream varieties using horse milk and different types of […]
India’s Ice Cream Market to Grow at 14.79% CAGR by FY 2031
Come summer, and the Indian ice cream industry gears up for its biggest season of the year. With temperatures rising, consumer cravings for icy indulgences are reaching peak levels, driving innovation, expansion and strategic positioning across the market. The ice cream market in India is forecast to witness a CAGR of 14.79 per cent during […]
Hatsun Agro India’s most state-of-the-art Ice Cream Plant
Normal “toned” milk contains 11.5% total solids: 3% fat and 8.5% SNF or solids-not-fat, while it is 15% (6% fat and 9% SNF) for full-cream milk. The total milk solids are even higher, at 21% (10% fat and 11% SNF) for real ice-cream. That makes ice-cream nothing but concentrated milk, which children don’t have to […]
Accountability in Food Safety Starts at the Top – Fingertip in ice cream
Dear top management of Food establishments , if a finger is found in a food product, the responsibility doesn’t fall on your team—it falls squarely on you.” In a shocking incident in India, a consumer recently discovered a fingertip in a packaged ice cream, raising grave concerns about food safety standards and practices in the […]
DNA tests reveal finger tip in ice cream cone that of factory’s employee
A severed tip of a human finger found inside an ice cream earlier this month belonged to an employee of a Pune factory where the frozen dessert was prepared, police said on Thursday. A DNA report from the state forensic science laboratory (FSL) confirmed that the fingertip was a match for blood samples of factory employee Omkar Pote, police said. Pote had been trying to […]
Human Finger and Dead Centipede found in Icecream at Mumbai and Noida
DAYS after a resident of Mumbai found a piece of flesh, suspected to be of a human finger, in an ice-cream cone, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) conducted an inspection at the premises of Fortune Dairy Industries, the third party manufacturer of the ice cream, in Indapur taluka of Pune and […]