After seven years of a successful business partnership, Starbucks has a new strategic licensing agreement with the farmer-owned dairy cooperative Arla Foods. The companies have signed a long-term 21-year strategic agreement, giving Arla Foods license to continue to manufacture, distribute and market Starbucks premium milk-based ready-to-drink coffee beverages across Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Arla Foods UK is today announcing a series of actions that it is proposing as part of a strategic review of its multi-award-winning UK cheese business, logistics operations and the Arla Group’s three-year transformation programme, Calcium, where it will further create efficiencies for the benefit of its farmer owners, customers and consumers.
Over 300 farmers have signed up to Arla’s new R500 programme designed to help future proof their farms and increase resilience to the impact of volatile milk prices.
Arla Foods amba is increasing its conventional milk price for June by one eurocent.
Following the launch of Arla Fibre earlier this year, Arla Foods is to expand the range with the addition of a new plain variant. Introduced in response to UK government guidelines that as a nation, we are not hitting the recommended 30g fibre a day, the plain format will sit alongside the current range of 4 fruit-based flavours.
Lurpak is to expand its spreadable product portfolio this May with the launch of Lurpak Softest, a new soft blend butter that is spreadable straight from the fridge. The UK’s number one butter brand has combined the great taste that Lurpak is renowned for with the softest, most spreadable butter ever*.
Arla Foods is set to launch into the breakfast food-to-go market with the introduction of its new Milk & Oats range of healthy* ready to drink beverages. Bringing the benefits of dairy into the soft drinks category, Milk & Oats is a simple blend of skimmed milk, hearty wholegrain oats and natural flavour that will launch in two breakfast-inspired variants – Maple and Vanilla.
Arla is holding its conventional milk price for May at 27.43 pence for its manufacturing litre.
New research released by Arla Fibre today reveals that the nation’s diets are stuck in a rut, with nearly two thirds (61%) of us* eating the same or similar foods every day. Brits cite their daily routines (47%) and lack of time (21%) as the main culprits for their predictable eating habits. It’s no surprise therefore that seven out of 10 (70%) of us wish we could vary our diets more easily.
Arla’s price for conventional milk will increase by 0.32 pence per litre from 1 April, as a result of the last quarter’s average exchange rate being introduced into the cooperative’s currency smoothing mechanism, taking the manufacturing litre to 27.43 pence.
Arla Foods has scooped an award for its protein pouch format at the fourth annual World Food Innovation Awards. Celebrating the very best in excellence and innovation across every product category, Arla protein pouches took home the award for Best Brand Ex-tension.
Arla’s price for conventional milk will reduce by 2.16 pence for the manufacturing litre, taking it to 27.11 pence from 1 March 2018.
