Manchester gets a facelift

The £12million revamp of Manchester dairy is getting closer to fruition with the modern milk intake area, a new office and amenities block now complete.

The first phase of the site's automated extended cold store, housing Arla's most hi-tech fridge is now on-stream.

The entire redevelopment of the cold store is scheduled for completion in 2006, and the new amenities block has brought all site personnel into one area for the first time since the Wythenshawe site opened in 1947.

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.