Our company

Arla Foods is a global dairy company and a co-operative owned by Danish, Swedish and German dairy farmers. We have production facilities in 13 countries and sales offices in a further 20, with a total of more than 17,000 employees.

Our products are sold under the well-known brands Arla®, Lurpak® and Castello® in more than 100 countries and our core markets are Denmark, Sweden, The UK, Finland, Germany and The Netherlands.

Through our Closer to Nature™ concept, we are committed to make products free from artificial colouring and flavouring and limit our use of additives. We are also the world’s largest producer of organic dairy products. 

• Net turnover: DKK 54.9 billion
• Net profit: DKK 1.311 million
• Milk weighed in: 9,241 million kg 
• Cooperative owners Januray 2012: 8,204
• Number of employees 17,417