Dairy

Walmart Stores, Inc., the number one retailer in the U.S., is now the number one distributor of Voskos Greek Yogurt. Nature’s premium brand yogurt is carried in every U.S. Walmart with a grocery department, or about 2,800 of the retailer’s approximately 4,400 locations. Ninety percent of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Walmart location. Sun Valley Dairy, the parent company of the Voskos brand, has added new jobs and is investing in new production equipment and infrastructure to meet the increased demand. …

For Lafayette stockbroker Kenneth Daigle, buying a gallon of milk is no longer the bargain it used to be on Tuesdays at Fresh Market. …

Sisters Jenny Engel and Heather Goldberg, celebrity vegan chefs, founders of the popular West Coast-based Spork Foods cooking school and authors of Spork-Fed, featured Galaxy Nutritional Foods’ new GO Veggie! Dairy Free vegan cheese products at an event at their cooking school located in West Hollywood on January 23, 2013, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. PST.New Dairy Free Vegan Cheese From GO Veggie! Featured In Recipes By Celebrity Chefs At LA Event …

Our piece, "Twenty Lessons Learned From Tesco’s Fresh & Easy Failure," brought many responses. Edna St. Vincent Millay was among the first women to receive the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. She advised that “It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over.” Which is pretty much what seems to have happened here. …

The mood at Tulare City Hall is one of cautious optimism these days because a group of food industry veterans is proposing to build a cheese processing plant that would employ 220 people at good wages. City officials are careful not to get too excited because high-profile projects sometimes fail. But Calicheese signed an agreement last week to buy 59.67 acres of city property for $2,091,600, or $35,000 an acre. The company has six months to get its financing together. …