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The Arla Foods amba Board of Directors, and the board of Milk Partnership Limited, Arla Foods Milk Partnership’s (AFMP) investment company of which all AFMP farmers are members, have announced the proposal for the roadmap to co-ownership. This could see a further 1,600 British dairy farmers become co-owners of Arla Foods amba, one of Europe’s leading dairy cooperatives.

Arla is posting significant growth in earnings, revenue and profit for the first half of 2013. The effects of last year's mergers and acquisitions are beginning to be realised and the company has also capitalised on the upturn in the global market for dairy products.

Arla Foods amba is increasing its on account price to Arla Milk Link (AML) members by 0.77ppl, as a result of improvements in business performance, taking the AML standard litre to 32.31 pence* from 2 September 2013.

With Arla’s one billion litre fresh milk processing facility at Aylesbury dairy nearing completion, the company plans to close its dairy and distribution facility at Ashby-de-la-Zouch and transfer volume to the new dairy in Buckinghamshire.

Arla Foods is a 100 per cent farmer-owned cooperative, with 12,400 European dairy farmers owners, 1,600 of whom are British.

Arla Foods Milk Partnership confirms its discussions on defining the roadmap to full membership of Arla Foods amba are on track and its continued commitment to the dairy industry’s Voluntary Code of Best Practice on Contractual Relationships. As part of that, from 1 July 2013, AFMP will move to the ‘purchaser discretion’ contract mechanism of the Code.

Arla’s Malpas Creamery is celebrating today after an outstanding performance at this year’s Royal Bath and West Show. The creamery picked up a total of4 awards for its delicious Cheshire, proving it to be in a class of its own.

Arla Foods amba has agreed to sell its Crediton Dairy milk drinks business to a management buy-out team led by former Milk Link chief executive Neil Kennedy and former Milk Link group finance director Tim Smiddy.

Arla Milk Link farmers are to receive a 1.7 pence increase on their standard litre price, from 27 May, as a result of Arla Foods amba increasing its on-account price to its 12,400 cooperative members.

For the third consecutive phase, Arla has joined the grocery sector in continuing to show its commitment to reducing food and drink waste, becoming one of 45 signatories joining the third phase of the Courtauld Commitment.

In a drive for increased consumer protection and industry excellence, the UK’s largest dairy company, Arla Foods, has pioneered a unique new take on dairy specific food safety training in the industry.

Arla Foods UK is raising its price to Arla Foods Milk Partnership farmers (AFMP) and both groups of its direct suppliers, for conventional milk by 1.25ppl, and by 2ppl for organic milk, with effect from 1 June 2013.