Arla Foods, the farmer-owned dairy company, today unveiled Arla Big Milk, the UK’s first fresh milk enriched with essential nutrients to help support children’s growth and development, as part of their balanced diet and healthy lifestyle. Arla Big Milk has been developed to specifically meet the needs of children from ages one to five, made with 100 per cent British whole cows’ milk.
Arla Foods amba is raising its on-account price from 30 March by 1.5 eurocents. Sterling has continued to strengthen and April sees a new quarter’s (January to March) average exchange rate being introduced to the pricing mechanism. When the impact of the currency smoothing mechanism is taken into account, this raises the UK standard litre by 0.83 pence, taking it to 25.8 pence.
Arla Foods, the farmer-owned dairy company, is today launching Arla® Skyr into the UK market, in the next stage of the company’s expansion into the yogurt category.
Arla has now published its Annual Report 2014 as well as a new CSR report, showing how the company lived up to its social, ethical, environmental and financial responsibilities.
Arla Foods has today launched its 2014 global CSR report which is now available for download.
Arla Foods amba is holding its on-account price through into March 2015.
2014 was a year of growth for Arla Foods UK, the UK’s number one dairy company, despite challenging global conditions. At 2.8 billion euros (£2.3bn) the UK continued to be the largest market for Arla Foods amba representing 27 per cent of the group’s revenue.
Arla farmer-owners in the UK are getting behind the Anchor Cheddar campaign ‘the cheese sandwich needs you’ to tell their story as owners of the country’s largest dairy company.
Arla Foods, the farmer-owned dairy company, has been awarded the 2014 Supplier Award for Collaborative Working by food retailer Waitrose. A close working partnership with Waitrose’s internal team, improving working practices, fostering a strong innovation pipeline (leveraging ASIC), and supplying products of market-leading quality helped Arla to support Waitrose’s overall market performance.
The Arla Foods amba on-account price will remain unchanged in February 2015. There is, however, a small , positive, adjustment to the 2015 forecasted 13th payment which equates to a 0.06ppl increase, raising the UK standard litre price to 24.87 pence.
Arla Foods Ingredients is set to sell lactose ingredients through the Global Dairy Trade (GDT) online auction platform for the first time as part of its bid to become the world’s leading lactose supplier. Arla Foods Ingredients intends to start selling lactose via GDT from 15 April 2015.
Arla Foods is integrating its markets in China and South East Asia in a new regional market called Business Unit Asia. Asia is vital to Arla’s ambitions to grow and to increase earnings for its cooperative farmer-owners in Europe. As the world’s fastest growing economic region with a raw milk deficit and a total population of 2.3 billion people, Asia holds great potential for dairy export.
