Germany and Holland punish Spanish cheese with low-priced products

Changes in consumption patterns put the Spanish dairy sector in check, warns the National Federation of Dairy Industries (FeNIL), which has presented its third edition of its barometer, which periodically disseminates the most relevant data on the activity. Last year ended with a stagnation in the consumption of dairy foods, but the industry warns that the inflationary context encourages consumers to take refuge in private labels and imports of cheeses with low added value. Many of these cheese products come from northern Europe and are gaining positions on supermarket shelves and in the shopping basket of Spaniards. Yogurts, smoothies and national cheeses are the categories that suffer the most. Sales of yogurts and dairy desserts fell 3.1%, as well as smoothies, which fell 2.5%. Liquid milk experienced a rise of 1.8% and, although cheese as a whole grew by 1.1%, the volume of sales of traditional Spanish cheese fell by more than 3%, dairy industries maintain. Regarding imports ...