Arla and Milk Link: Top 10 facts
Read our top 10 facts about Arla Foods amba and Milk Link, who announced announced a merger today (22 May).
You can see the where the companies’ dairies are in the UK on the map below.
Milk Link
- 1,600 British dairy farmer members
- Members produce 1.3 billion litre of milk a year
- 350-400 contract suppliers delivering around 200 million litre milk a year
- Turnover in 2011 was £628 million
- Eight processing sites across Great Britain
- Approximately 1,300 employees
- The UK’s biggest producer of Cheddar cheese
- Exports cheese to more than 20 countries
- Co-op established in April 2000
- Produces cheese, long life milk and cream, flavoured and functional milks, butter and dairy ingredients
Arla
- Processes around 2 billion litres of milk annually
- Supplies 27% of the total British fresh liquid milk market
- Employs around 2,700 people in the UK and 17,400 people worldwide
- Has 5 dairies, 2 cremeries
- 8,024 Danish, Swedish and German dairy farmers are co-operative members
- Revenue for 2011 was DKK 54.9 billion, of which 78% was generated from Arla’s core markets in the UK, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Finland and the Netherlands
- Produces butter brands Lurpak and Anchor – Anchor is the UK’s 2nd largest butter brand
- Produces the UK’s leading milk brand – Cravendale
- Supplies 27% of the total fresh liquid milk market in Great Britain
- Supplies 26% of the total sales of packet butter to retailers from its three butter,spreads and margarine
brands – Lurpak, Anchor and Yorkshire Butter
For more on this topic
Read about the merger announcement