Arla Foods is a cooperative based in Århus Denmark and the largest producer of dairy products in Scandinavia. Arla formed as the result of a merger between the Swedish dairy cooperative Arla and the Danish dairy company MD Foods on 17 April 2000.^[1][2] Arla Foods is owned by approximately 10,600 milk producers in Denmark and Sweden. The name Arla derives from the same word as the English "Early" and means in older Swedish "Early morning". Arla was the name of a local Swedish dairy industry in the end of the 19th century which was one of the founders of modern Arla Foods. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A cooperative (also co-operative or co-op) comprises a legal entity owned and democratically controlled by its members, with no passive shareholders. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... For cooperative as used in biochemistry, see cooperative binding. ... A dairy farm near Oxford, New York in the United States. ... Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centered on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe and includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. ...

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Subsidiaries

Denmark, Sweden, and the UK are considered home markets because the Group has production in all three countries. Turnover in the three markets accounts for approximately 73% of Arla Foods’ turnover. Arla owns 51% of the stock exchange-listed UK company Arla Foods UK. The purchase of Wisconsin-based White Clover Dairy, a company of 170 employees, on January 26, 2006, opened the U.S. market to direct access (White Clover had sold Arla products under license since 1998).^[3] Besides Denmark, Sweden and the UK, Arla Foods operates subsidiaries in the 19 most important export markets. Arla Foods UK plc (LSE: ARU) is a major British dairy products company. ... Official language(s) None Capital Madison Largest city Milwaukee Area  Ranked 23rd  - Total 65,498 sq mi (169,790 km²)  - Width 260 miles (420 km)  - Length 310 miles (500 km)  - % water 17  - Latitude 42°30N to 47°3N  - Longitude 86°49W to 92°54W Population  Ranked... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from...

Middle East boycott over Muhammad cartoons

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Arla's sales were severely affected by a boycott of Danish products across the Middle East in 2006. Transnational anger among Muslims over satirical cartoons of Muhammed was the immediate cause of this. After the Danish government refused to condemn the cartoons or meet with eleven concerned ambassadors from Muslim nations, a boycott was organized, starting in Saudi Arabia and spreading across the Middle-East. The Middle-East is Arla's largest market outside of Europe. The image is page three of Jyllands-Postens culture section from 2005-09-30 with the twelve drawings of Muhammad. ... Image File history File links WikiNews-Logo. ... Wikinews is a free-content news source and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. ...

On 2006-02-03, the company said that sales in the Middle East had stopped completely, costing the company two million US$ a day^[4]. Soon after the boycott began to affect Arla's sales, the Danish government met with Muslim ambassadors and the newspaper and the government issued apologetic statements. Unfortunately, by this stage, the issue had gone out of control. For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ...

In April 2006, the company said that its products are being placed back into stores in the Middle East. Before the boycott, it supplied 50,000 stores in the area. It has announced that many of its largest clients in Saudi Arabia will start selling its butter and cheese on April 8. Arla has started sponsoring humanitarian causes in the Middle East in order to win back trust from consumers. ^[5]

See also

• List of Swedish companies
• List of Danish companies

This is a list of Swedish companies: Companies A&E design Asea Brown Boveri (Swedish-Swiss) Alfa Laval Akzo Nobel (Swedish-Dutch) Arla Foods (Swedish-Danish) Arla Plast Autoliv Assa Abloy AstraZeneca (Swedish-British) Atlas Copco Avanza Axel Johnson Group Axel Johnson AB Axfood Biacore Boliden Bonniers BRIO Bure Equity... This is a partial list of Danish companies, companies headquartered in Denmark: A.P. Moller-Maersk Group Arla Foods (Dutch-Danish-Swedish) Bang & Olufsen (B&O) BoConcept Carlsberg Coop Norden (joint Danish, Norwegian and Swedish owned) DALI Danisco Danish Crown Danske Bank Dansk Supermarked Group DSB Group Ecco Sko FDB...

References

1. ^ Arla genom åren (Swedish). Arla Foods. Retrieved on 2007-07-19.
2. ^ Historien bakom namnet Arla Foods (Swedish). Arla Foods. Retrieved on 2007-07-19.
3. ^ "Arla Foods acquires US dairy company", Nordic Business Report,January 26, 2006
4. ^ "Arla cheesed off over Middle East boycott", The Daily Telegraph, 2006-02-04. 
5. ^ "Arla returns to the Middle East", BBC, 2006-04-07. 

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External links

• Arla Foods website
• Arla Foods UK
• Arla Foods Ingredients