Arla Foods scoops gold award

Arla Foods has scooped the Grocer magazine's gold award for best own label supplier in the dairy section for the second year running.

Matthew Foods came second and Robert Wiseman and Dairy Crest joint third.

According to The Grocer, own label suppliers need to be more than manufacturers: they must also be analysts, designers, business advisors and futurists too. Judges said that Arla proved conclusively that it meets all these requirements.

Arla Foods UK plc is home to some of the UK’s leading dairy brands including Cravendale, Lurpak and Anchor. Processing approximately two billion litres of milk a year Arla continues to be one of the UK’s leading dairy companies and a supplier of fresh liquid milk and cream to the top seven retailers.

Over 2,500 daily deliveries are made directly to stores nationwide and Arla brands can be found across the dairy category. As well as the leader of the butter, spreads and margarine sector, and a major supplier of other added value products including flavoured milk and cheese, Arla continues to build working relationships with Arla Foods Milk Partnership, a unique group of dairy farmers, which supplies around 90 per cent of Arla's total milk requirements.

Behind this leading business is a team of circa 2,800 people across the UK located at our dairies, distribution centres and head office.