Double gold

Arla has once again scooped a top honour at The Grocer Gold Awards by being crowned the country's best own label supplier for a second successive year.

"It's very rare for a company to win the award twice in a row," said Simon Stevens, sales director who collected the award on Arla's behalf at the ceremony in London on 15 June.

"Not only does the award demonstrate the high regard in which our customers hold us, it also reflects Arla's dedication to setting the highest industry standards, year after year."

Also vying for the grocery industry's coveted accolade were top suppliers like Kerry Foods, Grampian and McBride.

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.