Arla Foods is investing £179m over the next three years in its Taw Valley plant to produce and export Mozzarella. Currently the site, at North Tawton in Devon, produces Cheddar and some territorial cheeses. But investment at the plant will see Mozzarella being produced and, with the latest technology, this should reduce the cheese maturing […]
It has been confirmed that Arla will no longer be supplying milk for Sainsbury’s own-label products from early next year. As from February 2024, Sainsbury’s will use Muller as its sole supplier of its own-label milk. The announcement brings to an end a long-standing supply deal between Arla and Sainsbury’s. However, the processor has confirmed […]
Arla has announced a 1.33ppl price increase for its members as from 1st November. The (large) rise is a bit of a surprise given the fall in global markets (see last month’s article https://abcbooks.co.uk/dairy-update-19/) and the stabilisation of domestic milk production. The increase will take the UK manufacturing price for conventional and organic milk to […]
Arla is introducing a Sustainability Incentive to its farmers. Two years ago, the cooperative introduced its Climate Check, which gave producers 1 Eurocent on their milk price for submitting ‘climate’ data from their farms. From 2023, in addition to this, Arla producers will be able to receive up to 3 Eurocents per kilo of milk […]
Arla looks set to close its Trevarrian soft cheese creamery by summer 2021. Consultation has already started with its 37 members of staff at the Cornish site where it produces a range of Brie and Camembert. The loss of key own-label cheese supermarket contracts together with Covid-induced volatility in the food service sector has been […]
Somewhat bucking the overall trend is the industry giant, Arla (see previous article). The Coop has announced it will be cutting its prices from 1st July by 0.63ppl. This takes its standard manufacturing litre from 29.89ppl to 29.26ppl (including bonuses for farm standards and climate change).
From the beginning of 2021, no healthy calf born on a UK farm supplying Arla will be slaughtered or euthanised under 8 weeks old. The new policy was put forward by the calf working group and voted through by Arla’s UK board of representatives. The slaughtering of young calves is one of the issues used […]
After previously announcing that the entire 2018 net profits would be paid out to its farmers (see September’s article https://abcbooks.co.uk/?s=Arla), Arla has now confirmed this 13th payment will be 2.3 Euro cents/kg; the highest since 2012. The amount paid to UK Arla members is expected to be announced on 8th March. The conversion from Euro […]
Arla’s Board of Directors has agreed on the proposal to pay out the entire 2018 net profit to its farmers. This could see a payment in the region of 2-2.2p per litre (2.3-2.5 EURc/kg milk) being made to each member. The CEO of Arla Foods, Peder Tuborgh, has said that a significant improvement in the […]
In a significant boost to the dairy industry, Arla has announced it will not be cutting its conventional milk price in April. In fact, due to the April to June ‘currency smoothing’ mechanism the April price will actually increase by 0.32ppl. Readers will recall Arla cut its price by 2.16ppl in March, which was a […]