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Milk’s retail sales at the end of 2020 versus a year ago show a 2.8% increase– and hold 13% of the total U.S. share of retail fluid milk sales. Other year-end milk trends include:
* Lactose free milk is up 17%
* Omega-3 milk is up 15.4%
* Refuel (chocolate milk) is up 12.6%
* Whole milk is up 6.2%, outpacing lower fat milks
* Whole milk is 41.2% of all milk sales
* Gallon milk sales increased 3.7%
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Cheese retail sales in the region show a 14.7% increase at the end of 2020 versus a year ago. Local cheese sales hold 13.8% of the total U.S. share of retail sales. Other year-end trends include:
* Natural cheese is up 14.4%
* Regular fat cheese is 91.6% of category
* Kosher, organic, sliced, shredded and round cheese lead category sales gains
* Queso, Parmesan and Mozzarella varieties lead growth
* Pepper flavors are up 12% with 2.2% of sales share
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ADA North East has 16.8% of the total U.S. yogurt retail share, showing a 0.6% sales increase at the end of 2020.
* Greek yogurt makes up 42.5% of all yogurt sales
* Whole fat yogurt is up 1.3%
* Low fat yogurt gained 2.8%
* Flavors strawberry blend, vanilla and plain had largest sales gains, each more than 15%
* Multi-serve containers of yogurt increased by 15.4%, and multi-pack by 2.6%
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Contact ADA North East at 315.472.9143 for more retail information.