Arla Foods, the farmer owned Danish dairy multinational set what the company describes as “new records across the businesses [in 2025] achieving its highest ever milk intake, performance price, and revenue.”

Turnover for the group, which is headquartered in Denmark but operates across several EU countries plus the UK, was €15.1bn in 2025 up from €13.8bn the previous year. Key to this was an increase in the milk volume processed which was a record 14.3bn kg (13.9bn litres), up from 13.7bn kg (13.3bn litres) the year before.

Net profit for the year was €415m with a milk price of 56.4c/kg (54.7c/l) and the company will pay a supplementary 2.2c/kg (2.1c/l) to its farmer owners.

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In his comments on the results, the company chair refers to 2025 being a year of two halves. It started with “strong demand and a balanced supply, [but] the landscape shifted dramatically in the second half. Exceptional weather conditions and strong feed harvests across Europe triggered a rapid surge in milk volumes.”

He commended the Co-Ops ability to “navigate this volatility and once again prove its worth as a strong, competitive home for our milk”

Outlook

In their statement on the results, Arla expects that the “volatile market conditions” from late 2025 will continue into the early part of this year but that that there will be a “partial normalisation later in the year as supply and demand dynamics adjust.”