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After an international tour of Denmark, Holland and New York, premium cheese brand Castello® officially opened its first UK pop-up store on the 9th September. The Castello® Pop Up shop has arrived in Commercial Street in London for a seven week tenure to build on the success of the brand in the UK, and boost awareness and appreciation of Castello® cheese among UK consumers.

Arla is making a non-binding bid for all shares in Arab Dairy Products Company, a listed company based near Cairo. If the company is found to be sound and healthy, Arla looks set to become one of the top five or six players in the Egyptian dairy sector.

Arla Foods has launched Growing Together, a ground-breaking new three-year sustainable dairy farming initiative, involving its 3,000 British farmers.

Arla Foods Ingredients is investing £32.5 million (295m DKK) in a new processing facility in Videbæk, Denmark, to meet booming demand for whey protein hydrolysates. The investment strengthens Arla Foods Ingredients’ position as a global leader in natural whey ingredients.

Arla showed strong performance in the first half of 2014 and delivered record earnings for its farmer owners. However a significant negative development in the world market on price will force down the price paid to farmers for the remaining part of 2014.

Arla Foods amba is reducing its owner on-account price by €1.5 cents per kg, with effect from 1 September 2014.

Arla Foods UK, the country’s number one dairy company and cooperative, selected for best practice in manufacturing skill development for young people

Tomas Pietrangeli has been appointed as the new head of Arla Denmark. He is moving from his role as Managing Director at Reckitt Benckiser and will join Arla Arla later this year.

Arla Foods amba is reducing its owner on-account price by €1.25 cents per kg, with effect from 4 August 2014.

Lurpak® is now the UK’s number one selling butter and margarine brand both in terms of sales volume and value, according to latest market data from AC Nielsen.

The merger between EGM Walhorn and Arla Foods has been approved by the relevant competition authorities. The merger is set to take effect on August 1st 2014.

Arla Foods amba is reducing its global on-account milk price by €1.5 cents per kg, with effect from 7 July 2014, which when applied through the pricing mechanism, results in a reduction of 1.23ppl on Arla’s UK standard litre.