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Arla has scooped a top honour at The Grocer Gold Awards 2004 by being crowned best own label supplier.

To ensure its future as a strong player in the butter and spreads market, Anchor has had a major makeover and will be stepping out in new packaging, from 1 July 2004.

Crime fighting Express Dairies milkman Sean Garvey has won the title of 2004 milkman of the year at a special award ceremony hosted by Dairy Industry Association Ltd to acknowledge excellence.

Express Dairies, a trading division of Arla Foods UK plc the UK's leading dairy company, has signed a two-year agreement with mail and logistics company TPG N.V.'s UK subsidiary TNT Mail, which will see Express Dairies delivering addressed, heavier weight letters and packets for TNT Mail's customers.

Arla Foods UK plc, the UK's leading dairy company, is to become sole supplier of fresh liquid milk to ASDA.

The famous Express name will fly the standard for Arla's home delivery business nationwide, as part of the merger process.

An additional investment of up to £20 million is to be injected into Arla's new dairy at Stourton, south Leeds to provide new Cravendale production facilities.

With news of obese, unhealthy children hitting the headlines on an almost daily basis, how do parents inspire their kids to choose healthier foods? The recent cinema release of The Calcium Kid is encouraging kids to do just that with the lead being a milkman who becomes a heavy weight champion due to his consumption of three pints of milk a day.

CAFÉ MET, the UK's fastest growing milk drink, is extending its range with the introduction of a special edition Hazelatte.

Some of the summer's top social events are approaching fast, and this means extra business and tight delivery windows for Express foodservice, which supplies products to upmarket events in the London area.

The weather's warmer, the nights are shorter and winter woollies are banished to the bottom drawer. And that's when panic sets in.

Milk is making it big in the movies, following the launch of The Calcium Kid, which hit cinemas nationwide this April.