Jonathan Dixon has been appointed as the new Senior Vice President of Sales for Arla Foods UK effective 1^st May.

Arla Foods’ on-account prices for conventional and organic milk will increase by 1.5 euro cents per kilo from 1 April 2021.

This month the on account price is also impacted positively by 0.04 pence per litre by the quarterly currency exchange rate adjustment. Together, when applied to the UK manufacturing litre this equates to 1.40 pence per litre and takes Arla’s conventional milk price to 31.43 pence and organic milk to 39.79 per litre for Arla’s farmer owners.

Following a significant decline in site volumes due to loss of key own-label cheese contracts, as well as continued instability in foodservice demand due to the ongoing pandemic, farmer-owned dairy company Arla Foods, is proposing to cease production at its Trevarrian Creamery in Cornwall, subject to consultation with employees at the site.

The Arla Foods on-account price for conventional and organic milk will increase by 0.5 euro cent from March 2021. 

This means that Arla’s conventional milk price will increase to 30.03 pence and organic milk increase to 38.39 pence per litre for Arla’s farmer owners.

• Annual results show home consumption driving 13 per cent branded volume revenue growth for Arla Food UK in 2020
• Total UK revenue increased to £2.12bn (2.380bn euros) despite 50 per cent of Arla’s products being impacted by the consequences of the pandemic. Global Arla Group revenue reached EUR 10.6 billion
• Arla’s Board of Directors has proposed that the share of profits paid out to farmer owners, in what is termed the 13^th payment, should be 1.75 eurocent per kg milk (circa 1.58 pence per litre), 0.75 eurocent, higher than the standard 1.00 eurocent per kg milk