All Arla articles – Page 17
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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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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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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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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...
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Arla rethinks packaging of cream to push up the category’s value
Innovative packaging for fresh cream will transform it from a commodity into a luxury item, driving category growth, according to Arla Foods UK.Now going into the multiples, new-look pots are made from rigid material, feature colour-coded...
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Tesco moves to find where retail price initiative money ended up
Tesco has called in its two liquid milk suppliers – Arla Foods and Robert Wiseman Dairies – to carry out an audit on where the retail price initiative money has ended up, according to reports.Sources in the farming sector claimed the move...
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Inkpin new MD of Peter Hunt’s Bakery
Arla business development director Grant Inkpin has become the new managing director at Peter Hunt’s Bakery Foods, replacing Peter Beatty who has retired after 16 years with the company.Inkpin had worked for Arla for 10 years and was the...
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FFA: Arla will reverse price cut
Arla Foods will rescind the price cut it imposed on dairy farmers by the end of August, according to David Handley, chairman of Farmers for Action.Handley warned that FFA planned to step up its direct action against Arla, and the retailers it...
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More pulled into Arla supply fold
Arla Foods has secured a 50% increase in the amount of milk sourced through its Arla Foods Milk Partnership direct supply arrangement. The development means that from September, AFMP will supply 75% of Arla’s milk requirements, or 1.65 billion...
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Cravendale gets flavour of adults
Arla Foods’ Cravendale brand is entering new territory with an added-value milk for adults.Cravendale Hint Of will come in two varieties, Wild Strawberry and Vanilla, and the white-coloured liquid will be targeted as an alternative to regular...
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Farmers furious as Arla digs in
The row between dairy farmers and Arla Foods intensified this week, after the processor refused to reverse its 0.35ppl cut in milk prices (The Grocer, June 11, p64).Arla met officials from Farmers For Action and the National Farmers’ Union on...
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Milk price under scrutiny again
The government has pledged to look into how milk is bought and sold in the UK.The announcement by Lord Bach, the new minister for sustainable farming and food, came as cracks began to reappear in the supply chain after a decision by Arla to...
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Smith defies the fury of farmers
The fallout from Arla Foods’ decision last week to cut the price it pays farmers for milk is threatening to shatter the fragile harmony in dairy supply.Farmers For Action boss David Handley called out members to picket Arla depots and demanded...
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Arla’s Davidson to retire this year
At its annual general meeting Arla Foods UK announced its chief executive, Neil Davidson, is to retire in September this year once the merger between the former Express Dairies and the Arla Foods businesses to create Arla Foods UK, is...
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Campaign trail
AnchorManufacturer: Arla Foods UKBrand: AnchorBudget: part of a £4m spendNew television advertising for Anchor is being spearheaded by new-look, hi-tech versions of the brand’s Cow and Moo characters. The 30-second execution...
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Arla pledges to hold milk prices
A pledge by Arla Foods to hold milk prices until April 1 has been welcomed by the NFU as a step towards better market conditions.The decision was the result of extensive talks between the NFU and Arla about the need for positive price signals...
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Webb to close
Arla Foods UK has said it will close its HT Webb imported cheese distribution company early next year.The small financial returns to be made from cutting, wrapping and distributing specialist cheese products manufactured by other companies...
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n lurpak sea saltLurpak butter brand owner Arla Foods has formed a trade alliance with a traditional Danish sea salt producer.Laeso Saltsyderi, a small-scale artisan salt works based in Denmark, is understood to have agreed to produce five tonnes of sea salt...