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BACKGROUND INFORMATION

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IDF World Dairy Summit 2008

11-14 November Mexico City

This year's World Dairy Summit is being held in Mexico City from 11-14 November 2008.

Once again, this event will feature a number of conferences spread over three days (12th-14th), including:
  •     Dairy Policies and Economics
  •     Nutrition and Health
  •     Animal Health
  •     Milk Production
  •     Marketing
  •     Nutrimarketing
  •     Dairy Science and Technology
  •     Environment
  •     Dairy Industry Economic Perspectives
 FIL-IDF World Dairy Summit & Exhibition Mexico 2008

There is also the popular World Dairy Leaders Forum on November 11th, which presents a discussion by CEO's from the global dairy industry on key issues, including consolidation, sourcing, changing consumer attitudes (amongst others) and you can also pose questions to them face to face. On the same day, there is also a Worskshop on Sampling and Analysis in the Dairy Chain.

One added bonus of the event being held in Mexico is that it has been widely quoted over recent years as one of the countries that still has potential for growth in the marketplace, with the country not only having a low daily dairy consumption per head but also needing to import dairy products to meet its needs, so this is an excellent chance to see what opportunities are available at first hand.

For more details, visit: http://www.wds2008mexico.com/

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Highlights from the First IDF Dairy Farming Summit

The First IDF Dairy Farming Summit was held in Edinburgh from 25-27 June and you can now view the presentations from this important event, together with the five films of dairy farmers from around the world, at the http://www.sustainabledairyfarming.com/default.htm website.

The Edinburgh event is intended to be the first of a series of events for dairy farmers that will be held around the world and this site has been set up not only to present the key findings from Edinburgh but also to preview future events.

Further articles will be added to the site as the year progresses and there are also links to other relevant sites.

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IDF Marketing Awards 2008

The IDF is once again offering dairy companies around the world the opportunity to showcase their marketing activities and achievements via the 2008 Marketing Awards.

Entries are invited in four categories (entries of a generic nature will not be eligible):

  •  Innovation
  •  Nutri-marketing
  •  Marketing Communication
  •  Environment

Any dairy company can submit either 1 or 2 entries in one of more of the categories or, where appropriate, the same campaign can be entered in more than one category.

The closing date for entries is 19 September.

To view / download the document containing all the relevant informaton (rules, judging criteria, eligibility for entry etc) please click here.

For more information please contact Ian Wakeling, on 020 7467 2621

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