Archive of all Arla articles – Page 20
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Arla to sue dairy companies
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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"
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
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?
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
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
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’
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
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
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
>>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...
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Arla price cut angers partners
The previously acquiescent Arla Foods Milk Partnership has reacted angrily to the latest milk price cut by Arla Foods UK.The leadership of the Arla direct supply group, which is headed by chairman Jonathan Ovens, had until last week stood...
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Salkeld quits Grampian
David Salkeld, group chief executive of Grampian Country Food Group, is leaving the firm.Grampian said his departure was wholly amicable and that he was leaving on good terms.Salkeld joined Grampian in 2003 from Arla Foods, where he was...
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Supplier Spotlight
The secret of success in niche dairy supply is spotting openings before anyone else and fulfilling them, according to Highgrove’s joint founder and managing director Keith Collins.“We don’t have the huge budgets that the Arlas and the Nestlés...