A boycott across the Middle East on dairy products made by
Denmark's Arla Foods has hit the group's profits in the first of
half of the year, it has announced.
Arla Foods has re-started cheese production for the Middle East
dairy market, but warned the move did not represent significant
progress in beating the boycott there.
Uncertainty continues to hang over Arla Foods in its key Middle
East dairy market, after it said sales there have been slow to
recover from a region-wide boycott against its products.
Arla Foods has said the boycott on its products in the key Middle
East dairy market was slowly lifting, thanks to its dominance in
certain areas of the Middle East dairy market.
Nestlé, the world's biggest food firm, has taken out adverts in
Saudi Arabia to refute rumours that two of its dairy products are
Danish, as unlucky Arla Foods continues to suffer from 'those
cartoons'.
Arla Foods said its future on the key Middle East dairy market was
in jeopardy, after the group stopped production for the area amid a
widescale boycott on Danish products by Muslim consumers.
