Spanish milk consumption falls

Milk consumption in Spain fell 4% last year, and dairy processors are developing new products amid uncertainty about the sector’s post-quota future, a Bord Bia analyst has said.

Madrid-based Bord Bia marketing executive, Roisin O’Sullivan, says only “low/no lactose” milk categories are seeing sales increases.

According to a recent article in Alimarket, after a slight increase in 2012 and a timid incremental growth in 2013 (+0.55%), milk consumption fell again 4% in volume terms in 2014. Average prices increased by 1.1%.