Arla food employed 19,577 people in 2013, the greatest number of employees during this period. In the following years the company experienced annual job losses, but in 2023 the figure increased to 21,307.
A leading Nordic brand
Arla Foods, headquartered in Denmark, was formed in the year 2000 when Mejeriselskabet Danmark and Swedish Arla merged. Of the global workforce, almost 8.7 thousand employees of Arla Foods were Danish nationality and another 3.5 thousand employees were from Sweden.
Global performance
From 2010 to 2014, Arla Foods reported an annual increase in revenue, but experienced losses in the following two years. Despite this, revenues have since recovered and reached 13.7 billion in 2023. The United Kingdom was Arla’s largest market that year, with revenues amounting to 3.44 billion euros. The German and Swedish markets are both slightly more than half the size of the UK market.
Number of employees of Arla Foods worldwide from 2010 to 2023
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