Agribusiness Handbook: Milk / Dairy Products - FAO
Agribusiness Handbook: Milk / Dairy Products - FAO
Agribusiness Handbook: Milk / Dairy Products - FAO
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Table 8: Litres of milk (4%) required to manufacture 1 ton of product<br />
Product<br />
<strong>Milk</strong> required - litres<br />
Cream (35% fat)<br />
Butter (82% fat)<br />
8,780<br />
Powered skim-milk 20,850<br />
Cheddar cheese<br />
10,400 (skim milk)<br />
Cream cheese(35% fat) 9,500<br />
2.2 Major manufacturing companies<br />
Some of the world’s largest food companies have their origins in the dairy<br />
business. Nestlé was ranked at the top of the list of the world’s largest<br />
dairy companies before 2000 and remained there as of 2007, despite its<br />
diversification into other product line. Danone moved up to the number two<br />
slot in 2007, displacing Lactalis. The merger between Campina and Friesland<br />
Foods in the Netherlands created the largest milk producing cooperative in the<br />
EU, ranking above Arla Foods. There are several US companies in the list, led<br />
by <strong>Dairy</strong> Farmers of America. The New Zealand-based cooperative, Fonterra,<br />
ranks as number seven in the list, and there are also companies from Canada<br />
and Italy ranking among the top 15 companies. This demonstrates the global<br />
nature of the dairy industry.<br />
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