Arla Foods, the farmer-owned dairy company, has today released its Group 2015 results, outlining a robust performance across its organisation. Arla’s largest business group, the UK market, played a significant role in delivering a strong year of improved performance.
Arla Foods, the farmer-owned dairy company, has today confirmed that it has entered a new three-year contract with ASDA for the supply of its own brand milk and cream. The new agreement allows ASDA to source over 1.5 billion litres of British milk from the dairy cooperative.
Arla, the UK’s largest dairy company, has unveiled a colourful new TV ad as part of a £7m campaign to launch Arla Best of Both (BOB): the UK’s first fat-free skimmed milk that tastes as good as semi-skimmed. BOB is packaged with a distinctive yellow top that sets it apart from the traditionally blue, green and red-topped milk aisle.
Arla is today announcing the structural changes to its organisation that will enable the business to deliver its Good Growth Strategy 2020 ambitions. The changes will see the formation of a new global Executive Management Team as well as the creation of a more efficient and globally-focused structure, which will allow the markets to strengthen their commercial and consumer focus.
From Morrison’s “Milk for Farmers” to our very own “Farmer-owned marque”, 2015 was a year which saw the launch of great initiatives aimed at getting the British public to support dairy farmers. There is no denying that times have been tough for the industry recently, and although the initiatives at home have proved a great success, there is still a lot of work to be done.
Arla Foods UK can confirm that Tesco has made the decision to award a significant volume of Arla’s fresh liquid milk business to Muller Milk and Ingredients. However, the farmer-owned dairy business has retained significant volumes in a long-term agreement. Tesco has confirmed that it will continue its long-standing relationship with Arla.
Arla Lactofree®, the UK’s pioneering lactose-free* dairy brand, is today launching its new television ad as part of its campaign to champion a dairy revolution.
In the largest consumer survey of its kind, Arla® skyr triumphs as Product of Year in the Yogurt category. With more than 11,500 consumers responding to the survey across 42 FMCG categories, Product of the Year is the world’s largest consumer-voted annual award for product innovation.
Arla Foods amba is today communicating to members that it is reducing its on-account price by one eurocent per kilo, with effect from 1 February. When this reduction is applied to the UK standard litre it equates to a downward movement of 0.75 pence.
Westbury Dairies Limited, the joint venture between Arla and First Milk, has today confirmed that full ownership of Westbury Dairies Limited has transferred to Arla. The joint venture company, located at Westbury, Wiltshire, operates the country’s most modern skimmed milk powder and bulk butter production facility.
Arla has launched a new branded milk product: Arla ‘Best of Both’ (Arla BOB); fat-free milk that tastes as good as semi-skimmed, with a distinctive yellow top. The farmer-owned dairy cooperative has spent three years developing the technology to produce Arla BOB.
Arla Foods amba is maintaining its milk price through January 2016. However, January also sees a new quarter’s (October to December) average exchange rate being introduced to the pricing mechanism.
