Next Wednesday, only a week after the merger, the two traditional football rivals, Denmark and Sweden, will clash in yet another classic contest in Copenhagen. Who should we support? MD Foods' sponsorship of Denmark's Euro and Wor
https://www.arla.com/company/news-and-press/2000/pressrelease/a-real-local-derby-760402/
Even before the campaign for the new product from MD Catering Service, Hot CheeseDog, has got underway, the concept has been awarded a gold medal in the Danish section of the Sial d'Or competition. The product can now be entered in the i
To a significant extent, Arla Foods will inherit the visions upheld by MD Foods, including the ambition of becoming Northern Europe's preferred dairy group for customers, consumers and milk producers. The group, Jens Bigum underli
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The English dairy group, Express Dairies, has announced its intention to acquire the Irish Glanbias (Avonmore-Waterford) liquid milk business in the UK for £100 m.The move represents the beginning of the long-awaited consolidation of the
The Board of Representatives of Kløver Mælk on Thursday approved the proposed merger with MD Foods by a clear majority - 142 votes against 41. In a separate move, MD Foods' Board of Representatives unanimously backed the merger which is
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Norwegian authorities' suspicions about a possible link between the death of a 54- year-old man from listeria poisoning in Oslo and two types of Danish cheese, now seem to have been allayed. According to the Norwegian health authorities,
Although BSE, "mad cow disease," cannot be transmitted via milk, a number of MD Foods' importers in the Middle East and Far East have requested further documentation that MD's dairy products carry no risk of the disease followi
The death of a 54-year-old Norwegian, caused by listeria bacteria last weekend had no connection to Danish cheese, the Norwegian health authorities have confirmed following Norwegian newspaper reports that the victim had eaten the MD Foo
https://www.arla.com/company/news-and-press/2000/pressrelease/no-risk-from-danish-cheese-760504/
Investigation of brain material from a 3½ year-old cow of a red Danish dairy breed in a herd in Jutland has revealed bovine spongiform encephalopathy/BSE/mad cow disease. The disease has only been detected once before in Denmark in Augus
https://www.arla.com/company/news-and-press/2000/pressrelease/no-risk-attached-to-milk-760505/
The UK dairy groups, Dairy Crest and Unigate, have decided to pool their respective dairy businesses in a joint company. If approved by the two groups' shareholders, the merger will take effect from the end of May, the companies announce
https://www.arla.com/company/news-and-press/2000/pressrelease/uk-dairy-merger-760507/
MD Foods has sold off its subsidiary in Seoul to Korea Dairy Holdings, a member of Citygroup. The dairy, which has 95 employees and an annual turnover of approx DKK 200 million, produces liquid milk and fresh products from locally produc
https://www.arla.com/company/news-and-press/2000/pressrelease/md-foods-sells-korean-dairy-760508/
Following Britain's Office of Fair Trading's approval of the merger between Arla and MD Foods, five countries have now approved the establishment of the new Arla Foods. After the UK, Germany, Denmark, Finland and Norway, only the competi
https://www.arla.com/company/news-and-press/2000/pressrelease/uk-approves-md-arla-merger-760509/