Fonterra operative : TURNING GOLD INTO WHITE BUTTER
January 18, 2017 at 04:12 pm
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Fonterra's Research and Development Centre alongside its global ingredients business, NZMP, has developed a new white butter product to meet growing demand from manufacturers in the Middle East market.
Although Fonterra's butter is renowned amongst Middle East consumers for its famous golden appearance thanks to grass fed cows, a niche segment of manufacturers prefer white butter as a processing ingredient for their food products.
These Middle Eastern food manufacturers have traditionally sourced butter from grain fed cows which produce dairy products with a pale colour.
Fonterra's Dairy Foods Category Director of NZMP, Casey Thomas, said Fonterra seized an opportunity to respond to customer needs by developing a high quality white butter ingredient through an innovative manufacturing process where they are now able to reduce the golden appearance of the butter without impacting its quality.
'While our yellow butter already sees great success in this market, we saw an opportunity to tap into this new area for customers to use in a variety of applications such as spreadable jar cheese, recombined cream cheese, and could soon be used in ice cream.'
NZMP General Manager of Middle East and Africa Santiago Aon said, 'This innovative approach is already seeing strong results. Our customers have had positive feedback about the white butter - it is performing to our expectations as a high quality ingredient for food businesses across the Middle East region.'
The Fonterra Research and Development Centre and NZMP team both have a long history of partnering with customers to not only provide them with steady supplies of ingredients, but creating business solutions with them.
The product is now available in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Bahrain, Turkey and Pakistan. Future plans include launching the product in Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and even South America.
White commercial butter specifically made for the Middle East market, compared with the golden consumer butter.
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Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited is a New Zealand-based dairy co-operative company. The Company is primarily involved in the collection, manufacture and sale of milk and milk-derived products through its ingredients, consumer, and foodservice channels. It operates through three segments: Global Markets, Greater China, and Group Operations. The Global Markets segment represents the global ingredients, foodservice and consumer channels outside of Greater China. The Greater China segment represents the ingredients, foodservice and consumer channels in Greater China. The Group Operations segment represents the business activities from collecting and processing New Zealand milk, through to selling products to its customer-facing regional business units, Global Markets and Greater China. Its channel of branded consumer products includes powders, yoghurts, milk, butter, and cheese. The Companyâs brands include Anchor, Anmum, Anlene, and Chesdale, among others.