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Arla farmer-owners in the UK taking part in Arla Foods’ sustainable dairy farming initiative, Growing Together, will be able to register all their development activity through the Dairy Pro Continuous Professional Development (CDP) Scheme, in a first-of-its-kind partnership.

​Arla Foods amba is holding its milk price through into May 2015. The UK standard litre has increased by 0.03ppl to 25.83ppl, following confirmation of the exchange rate used in the currency smoothing mechanism to convert the milk price for this quarter. This increase has been backdated to 1 April 2015.

Arla Foods, the farmer-owned dairy company, has been voted best in sector in The Grocer’s ‘Supplier of the Year 2015’ for both branded and own-label by buyers from the UK’s leading supermarkets as well as many other key players in the retail grocery trade. Arla was one of the highest scoring suppliers across the board and voted best-in-class.

Arla Foods, the farmer-owned dairy company, today unveiled Arla Big Milk, the UK’s first fresh milk enriched with essential nutrients to help support children’s growth and development, as part of their balanced diet and healthy lifestyle. Arla Big Milk has been developed to specifically meet the needs of children from ages one to five, made with 100 per cent British whole cows’ milk.

Arla Foods amba is raising its on-account price from 30 March by 1.5 eurocents. Sterling has continued to strengthen and April sees a new quarter’s (January to March) average exchange rate being introduced to the pricing mechanism. When the impact of the currency smoothing mechanism is taken into account, this raises the UK standard litre by 0.83 pence, taking it to 25.8 pence.

Arla Foods, the farmer-owned dairy company, is today launching Arla® Skyr into the UK market, in the next stage of the company’s expansion into the yogurt category.

Arla has now published its Annual Report 2014 as well as a new CSR report, showing how the company lived up to its social, ethical, environmental and financial responsibilities.

Arla Foods has today launched its 2014 global CSR report which is now available for download.

Arla Foods amba is holding its on-account price through into March 2015.

2014 was a year of growth for Arla Foods UK, the UK’s number one dairy company, despite challenging global conditions. At 2.8 billion euros (£2.3bn) the UK continued to be the largest market for Arla Foods amba representing 27 per cent of the group’s revenue.

Arla farmer-owners in the UK are getting behind the Anchor Cheddar campaign ‘the cheese sandwich needs you’ to tell their story as owners of the country’s largest dairy company.

Arla Foods, the farmer-owned dairy company, has been awarded the 2014 Supplier Award for Collaborative Working by food retailer Waitrose. A close working partnership with Waitrose’s internal team, improving working practices, fostering a strong innovation pipeline (leveraging ASIC), and supplying products of market-leading quality helped Arla to support Waitrose’s overall market performance.