Archive of all Arla articles – Page 19

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    Arla Foods UK acquired by parent company

    2007-01-23T08:19:00Z

    Dairy firm Arla Foods UK has been acquired by its parent company Arla Foods amba in a deal worth £434.5m.Arla Foods amba yesterday acquired the 49% stake it does not already own in Arla Foods UK for 71p per share.“This offer from...

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    Star Product

    2006-12-16T00:00:00Z

    Cow's milk is not the usual drink of choice for those consumers suffering from lactose intolerance, but thanks to innovation from Arla Foods in the form of Lactofree, now it can be. The product, hailed as the UK's first lactose-free dairy drink...

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    Arla replaces Hint Of with Half Pint format

    2006-11-10T00:00:00Z

    Arla Foods is ditching its Cravendale Hint Of flavoured milk after two years and replacing it with a new half-pint brand.Arla originally launched Hint Of in a one-litre format, which it was forced to scrap after a year when sales fell...

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    Arla to sue dairy companies

    2006-10-25T08:18:00Z

    Robert Wiseman Dairies has said that it is being sued by Arla Foods after the Office of Fair Trading provisionally ruled that Robert Wiseman and other milk suppliers might have breached price fixing rules in Scotland.Arla is seeking damages...

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    Power to the people

    2006-10-14T00:00:00Z

    It was the most devastating boycott of recent times. Following the publication in a Danish newspaper of cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad, a boycott of all Danish products was called for in Muslim countries. Lurpak manufacturer Arla Foods...

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    Dairy Crest snaps up Arla's Express arm

    2006-07-29T00:00:00Z

    Dairy Crest reckons it has created the UK's biggest doorstep milk business with the acquisition of Arla's interests in the middle ground. It announced it had bought Arla's Express Dairies Depot operations for £33m this week, including two...

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    Dairy Crest acquires Express Dairies

    2006-07-24T08:17:00Z

    Dairy Crest has proposed to acquire Express Dairies from Arla Foods for £33m.The deal includes 77 Express Dairies depots, principally in the midlands and north of England, and dairies in Liverpool and Nottingham.In the year to end 30...

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    Anchor suspension threatens Arla trade

    2006-07-22T00:00:00Z

    British shoppers should still be able to buy Anchor butters and spreads despite the European Commission's decision to suspend imports of the brand in a row over licences.A spokesman for EU agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel...

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    'Web of ambiguities' infuriates partners

    2006-06-24T00:00:00Z

    Furious farmer members of the Arla Foods Milk Partnership - Arla's dedicated milk supply group - are gunning for their board over milk price cuts and "impossibly confusing" supply contracts designed to flatten the production profile. At a...

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    Arla's Mostyn-Jones takes the commercial helm at First Milk

    2006-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Dairy co-operative First Milk, which represents 3,200 dairy farmer members in England, Scotland and Wales, has appointed Richard Mostyn-Jones as commercial director. Mostyn-Jones, who took up his new role this week, joins First Milk from...

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    NFU blasts Asda and Arla over milk cuts

    2006-06-10T00:00:00Z

    The NFU has blasted the latest milk price cut by Arla Foods UK as "penal". But it is equally pointing the finger at Asda for triggering cuts in the supply chain in March that "put the future of the dairy industry at risk." Arla Foods UK...

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    "The appointment of Tim Smith and an FSA rethink on natural sugars - a little sanity is at last emerging"

    2006-06-03T00:00:00Z

    I would love to have been a fly on the wall at Tim Smith's interview for the CEO role at the Food Standards Agency. How does the ex-chief executive of Arla Foods UK, a purveyor of precisely the kind of products the FSA would like us to consume...

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    Dr Oetker tops up its chilled division

    2006-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Dr Oetker UK has strengthened its chilled division with three new appointments.Neil Brealey has been appointed commercial manager for chilled, joining from Arla Foods where he was business unit controller. He has also worked for...

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    Would less really mean more?

    2006-04-29T00:00:00Z

    Farmers' leaders have rejected a suggestion by the boss of the UK's biggest dairy processor that the industry could be better off if it lost a billion litres worth of raw milk production. Arla Foods UK chief executive Tim Smith...

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    Major dairies get doorstepping

    2006-03-25T00:00:00Z

    Three of the UK's biggest dairies are to launch a bid to halt the dramatic decline in the volumes of milk delivered to doorsteps.Co-operative Dairy Farmers of Britain, processor Dairy Crest and Arla Foods division Express Dairies...

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    Arla weathers storm

    2006-02-11T00:00:00Z

    Arla Foods UK says its sales have not been hit by the furore over satirical cartoons that appeared in the Danish press.The caricatures of the prophet Muhammad have caused global unrest – targeted particularly at the Danes.Arla Foods, the...

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    Milk hike ‘won’t worry the OFT’

    2006-01-28T00:00:00Z

    An across-the-board retail price rise for liquid milk should not cause concern to the OFT, according to Arla Foods UK chief executive Tim Smith.Last week all the big four retailers increased the in-store price of a pint of milk by 1p,...

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    Arla milk volumes decrease

    2006-01-24T08:21:00Z

    Dairy group Arla Foods UK has revealed that milk volumes to the "challenging middle market" decreased in the first quarter of last year.However, in a trading update to the City, Arla said that volumes to supermarkets and household deliveries...

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    Milk flavours for impulse buyers

    2005-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Arla Food’s Cravendale brand is hoping to steal share from soft drinks, juices and smoothies with an ‘on the hoof’ single-serve milk product.The supplier is extending the successful fresh filtered Cravendale milk brand into slender half-pint...

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    The Acid Test

    2005-10-29T00:00:00Z

    >>consumers and buyers give their views on the latest product launchesProduct: cravendale hint ofCompany: arla foodsPrice: £1.09 per one-litre cartonCravendale Hint Of is an added-value milk for adults...