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Home cooking and baking due to the pandemic boosted sales of Arla’s global brands Lurpak, Arla and Puck.  Pic: Arla

Home consumption drives Arla brand growth during pandemic

By Jim Cornall

Danish-headquartered dairy giant Arla said it quickly reshaped the business disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic to meet the spike in home consumption and high demand for trusted household dairy products while offsetting negative impacts in other sectors.

Arla has set a goal to have 10% of all retail sales across core European markets come from e-commerce. Pic: Arla Foods

Arla Foods to supercharge sales in E-commerce

By Jim Cornall

Arla is fast tracking its plans to become European dairy market leader for e-commerce and aims to double its sales via its customers’ online platforms to €600m ($729m) across Europe.

Yili has overtaken Danone to become the most valuable dairy brand in the world, as well as claiming second position in the overall Brand Finance Food 50 2020 ranking.

Yili tops Brand Finance list of world’s most valuable dairy brands

By Jim Cornall

The food & drink sector is one of the few sectors that should suffer limited impact as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the world’s top food & drink brands unlikely to lose brand value, according to the latest Brand Finance Food & Drink...

Arla said it still expects to meet its expectations for the full year.

Arla delivers strong results despite pandemic

By Jim Cornall

Danish-headquartered dairy cooperative Arla Foods said in spite of the global coronavirus pandemic, in the first half year, its global branded sales volumes grew an unprecedented 10.4% and the cooperative delivered a strong and competitive performance...

Arla Foods Ingredients recently launched a clean label ambient stirred yogurt concept containing five all-natural ingredients.  Pic: Arla Foods Ingredients

The growing importance of clean label in functional dairy

By Jim Cornall

Demand for functional dairy ingredients has never been higher. This is largely driven by the high-protein trend – consumers increasingly understand the proven benefits of high-quality proteins, in particular those from whey, for muscle growth, weight...

Arla's recently-acquired Bahrain facility will be one of the beneficiaries of some of the €619m Arla plans to invest in 2020.

Arla to invest as sales volume grows in 2019

By Jim Cornall

In 2019 farmer-owned Arla Foods exceeded expectations for global branded sales as it worked on transforming its business securing cost-savings through its Calcium program.

Knight is leaving Arla Foods and heading to Dutch-Belgian retail group Ahold Delhaize.

CFO Knight to leave Arla Foods

By Jim Cornall

Arla Foods’ CFO Natalie Knight is leaving the dairy cooperative to become executive vice president, finance, at Dutch-Belgian retail group Ahold Delhaize.

The initiative defines and promotes best practice in science-based target setting.

Arla gets Science Based Target approval

By Jim Cornall

Dairy cooperative Arla Foods says its target to reduce total CO2 emissions by 30% by 2030 has been approved by the Science Based Target initiative as aligned with climate science.

Currently there are between 2m and 3m Arla milk crates in use in Denmark.

New Arla black milk crates are more green

By Jim Cornall

Arla’s new milk crates in Denmark may no longer be the traditional green color, but the new black containers will be more ‘green,’ as they are more environmentally friendly.

The new Lurpak Butterbox is a reclosable box.

Lurpak switches from foil to box

By Jim Cornall

Arla’s butter brand, Lurpak, is unveiling new block butter packaging in the UK with the launch of its new Butterbox.

Arla’s revenue outlook for full year 2019 is expected to be €10.2-10.6bn.

Arla revenues up

By Jim Cornall

Arla Foods has published its financial report for the first half of 2019, and the Danish-headquartered dairy cooperative said it saw a rare stability in the otherwise volatile global dairy market resulting in stable prepaid milk prices to farmer owners...

In the UK, 97% of flower meadows have disappeared since 1945; development of land for property and changes to farming methods are primarily responsible.

Arla UK farmers buzzing over bees

By Jim Cornall

A group of farmers from the Arla Foods dairy cooperative has launched a trial initiative to try and help increase wild bee populations given the crucial role they play in supporting ecosystems.

Market conditions are ideal for new sparkling protein waters specifically for sports nutrition users, says Arla

Arla debuts new whey protein hydrolysate

By Beth Newhart

A new protein ingredient from Arla Foods Ingredients is designed for sparkling protein water, with the potential for drinks to contain up to 6% protein.

Arla Foods CEO Peder Tuborgh, Chairman Jan Toft Nørgaard and CFO Natalie Knight answer questions at the 2018 annual results press conference.

Arla pays out all 2018 profits to farmers

By Beth Newhart

In its 2018 wrap-up report, Arla Foods announced that it would pay out its full net profit for 2018 of €290m ($329m) to farmers. It also discussed the progress of in-house cost-savings program Calcium and pending sustainability efforts.

Thomas Heilskov (centre) heads up Arla's new global in-house agency called The Barn.

Arla creates in-house agency

By Jim Cornall

In recent years, several international companies have started producing their own campaigns and ads, and now Arla has chosen to do the same.

Interviews with Arla Foods and International Dispensing Corporation.

Dairy Dialog podcast 15: Arla Foods and IDC

By Jim Cornall

This week’s Dairy Dialog podcast takes a look at this week’s acquisition by Arla Foods, as well as US company International Dispensing Corporation's (IDC) hopes of helping the dairy market in Pakistan.

Protein Extreme: Arla debuts new protein shot concept

By Beth Newhart

Arla Foods Ingredients has developed a new protein shot concept consisting of whey protein for ‘athletes and gym-goers’. It debuted the idea at the Supply Side West show in Las Vegas last week to beverage manufacturers.

New this month are products from Fairlife and Arla Foods. Pic: ©Getty Images/tumsasedgars

New product round-up: October 2018

By Beth Newhart and Jim Cornall

It’s time for our regular monthly look at what’s new in the dairy aisles around the world.

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