All Arla articles – Page 16
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Anchor goes back to the old buttercup test
New advertising for Anchor butter this summer will feature the old-fashioned buttercup test as owner Arla repositions the brand as the only free-range option on the market.TV ads featuring the childhood method of checking whether someone...
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The path to excellence
Simon Stevens mD commercial, Arla foods UK: "We have focused on three key areas: service levels, innovation and assistance with category management. We have worked hard to improve availability. Of 150 new products launched this...
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Smith leaves Arla Foods UK
Tim Smith, chief executive officer of Arla Foods UK, has left the company.Smith stepped down from the role, which he has held since June 2005, by mutual agreement, Arla Food said. He will be replaced by Peter Lauritzen. Lauritzen has...
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Breaktime gets healthier
Breaktime flavoured milk drinks from Arla Foods have been reformulated to meet government guidelines for drinks in schools and repackaged to appeal more to kids. The beverages, which come in chocolate, banana and strawberry, now contain...
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Arla buy-out set to tidy up loose ends
Arla's branded dairy portfolio is expected to get a cash injection if the recommended 71p-a-share take-over bid from its biggest shareholder goes through. Danish-Swedish dairy co-op Arla amba already owns 51% of Arla Foods UK and has been...
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Arla Foods UK acquired by parent company
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
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
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
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...