The Dairy Mail
Reports
Long-form intelligence on the questions that decide a year. A free Briefing account reads three reports or premium articles a month; Members read them all.
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The Protein Plant
Part Four of the Protein Series, and a More from Milk report. If the UK has the whey, who has the plant to turn it into the forms customers specify, and on what evidence? A register of UK and Irish whey protein capability, the investment cycle reaching the two islands, and the route value Britain does not publish.
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The unclaimed protein
The Protein Series established where the protein market is going. This report takes the same evidence and turns it into the decisions a dairy business has to make about it: where to compete, what it is allowed to say, and how to tell whether any of it is working.
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The Smaller Plate
Protein is reshaping how Britain eats out, and dairy may be the sector best placed to answer the shift
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The Protein Pound
Protein sales are booming, but the cheapest protein on British shelves is rarely the most heavily marketed
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The Great Protein Race
How protein moved from the gym to the weekly shop, and why that shift favours dairy
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Retail intelligence report 2026/27
Six trends from the 2025/26 UK grocery results cycle and what they mean for the dairy supply base
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Where pressure is really building in cheese & dairy
A Dairy Mail and Dairy Connect research initiative sets out to map the real operating pressures and friction points facing UK and Irish dairy
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Quarter 4 cheese report 2025
The UK cheese market is polarising into value and premium tiers as the middle collapses, with the ICDA reading each shift