Cottage Cheese

Good Culture lands $64m Series C funding: 'Many nutrient dense, cultured food categories are on the table for innovation'

23-Feb-2022 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Good Culture, best-known for disrupting the cottage cheese category with its clean label formulation, has just secured $64m in Series C funding to drive continued expansion of its healing cultured foods platform.

Good Culture evolves from clean-label cottage cheese brand to 'healing cultured foods company'

19-Aug-2021 By Mary Ellen Shoup

Best known for renovating the cottage cheese category with a clean-label alternative free from additives and made with milk from pasture-raised dairy cows, Good Culture has its sights set far beyond the $1.2bn cottage cheese category to become a fermented...

Muuna hits 4,000 stores, urges US consumers to rethink cottage cheese

18-Apr-2017 By Elaine Watson

Cottage cheese brand Muuna has rolled out to 4,000 retail locations nine months after its US launch, and is supporting its rapid growth with a multimedia marketing campaign and influencer program featuring dietitians and fitness professionals.  

Sleepy US $1.1bn cottage cheese category is ripe for disruption, says Muuna

10-Feb-2017 By Elaine Watson

Forty years ago, the US cottage cheese market was twice the size of the yogurt market. Today, yogurt (at $7.68bn) is seven times bigger in dollar terms than cottage cheese (down 1.7% to $1.1bn in retail sales in 2016 according to Nielsen data). So have...

What’s driving growth in cottage cheese? Zenith looks at trends in the sector

05-Oct-2016 By Jim Cornall

Dairy manufacturers can look to growth in cottage cheese, partly by referring to it as the original high protein cultured milk product, according to food and drink consultancy Zenith International.

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Good Culture repositions cottage cheese for on-the-go, protein focused consumers

04-Oct-2016 By Elizabeth Crawford

When most Americans think of cottage cheese – if they think about it – images of 1950s-styles salads with syrupy fruit or uninspired scoops of lumpy white mush likely come to mind. But industry newcomer Good Culture wants to “bring cottage cheese back”...

Cottage cheese innovator good culture lands $3 million investment

19-Sep-2016 By Elizabeth Crawford

An infusion of $3 million from new and existing investors will help dairy innovator and industry newcomer good culture advance its mission “to bring cottage cheese back.”

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Gen Mills 301 Inc: ‘There is a clear trend towards early stage engagement’

16-Mar-2016 By Elaine Watson

As 301 Inc’s recent investment in start-up Good Culture demonstrates, large CPG companies are placing bets in promising food companies earlier than ever as the natural & organic food market heats up, says general manager John Haugen, who is looking...

Couple brings German-style quark to US market

28-Mar-2013 By Hank Schultz

Quark, latest entrant to the North American dairy case, had a long journey, from northern Europe by way of India to a kitchen in Southern California. 

New natural alternative preservative for cottage cheese

10-Jun-2011 By Helen Glaberson

A new cottage cheese preservative from Danisco offers manufacturers a natural alternative to its chemical predecessor, says the firm.

Recession raises direct-to-vat cottage cheese culture sales

20-Apr-2009 By Caroline Scott-Thomas

Chr. Hansen has said that sales of its direct-to-vat cottage cheese cultures have been boosted by the global recession, as manufacturers seek ways to raise productivity.

Arla achieves cheese processing efficiency

11-Aug-2004

Denmark-based Damrow, part of the Carlisle Process Systems (CPS)
group, has installed an 18,000-litre enclosed cottage cheese vat
(ECCV) at Arla Foods' production facility in Skovde, Sweden.