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| Company type | Co-operative with limited liability (Danish: Andelsselskab med begrænset ansvar) |
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| Industry | Dairy |
| Predecessor | Arla Oy MD Foods |
| Founded | 17 April 2000, 1881 (original Arla company), 1970 (MD Foods) |
| Headquarters | , Denmark |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Peder Tuborgh (CEO) Jan Toft Nørgaard (Chairman) Jonathan Evans (UK milk)[citation needed] |
| Revenue | 13.8 billion EUR (2022)[1] |
| 400 million EUR (2022)[1] | |
Number of employees | 20,907 (2022)[1] |
| Subsidiaries | Arla Foods Finland Arla Foods UK |
| Website | arla |
Arla Foods Group is a Danish-Swedish[2][3] multinational co-operative based in Viby, Denmark. It is the fifth biggest dairy company in the world and the largest producer of dairy products in Scandinavia and United Kingdom.[4][5]
Arla Foods was formed as the result of a merger between the Swedish dairy co-operative Arla and the Danish dairy company MD Foods on 17 April 2000. The name Arla derives from the same word as the English word 'early' and is an archaic Swedish term for 'early (in the morning)'.
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:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Arla – a household name in the Nordic countries". www.arla.com. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
- ^ Box, Marcus; Lönnborg, Mikael; Rytkönen, Paulina (2021), Both a Co-operative and Multinational – International Market Strategies of Danish-Swedish Arla MD, Södertörns högskola, pp. 323–344, retrieved 23 March 2022
- ^ "Tesco vows to rein in prices as profits treble". BBC News. 13 April 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
However, the UK's largest dairy Arla recently warned that with cost increases of some 36%, farmers faced tough cost challenges.
- ^ "Dairy giant Arla warns of supply issues unless farmers paid more". BBC News. 25 March 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2023.