Arla Foods: brands it owns and its ownership tree
Arla Foods is a cooperative headquartered in Viby, Denmark that owns 5 consumer brands.[1]
Arla Foods is a cooperative owned by around eight thousand dairy farmers across seven European countries, formed in 2000 by the merger of Danish and Swedish cooperatives. Because its members own it, its profits return to farmers as milk price rather than to outside shareholders.
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Company facts
- Legal name
- Arla Foods amba
- Type
- cooperative · see all cooperative owners
- Headquarters
- 🇩🇰 Viby, Denmark
- Founded
- 2000
- Wikidata
- Q2870503
- Website
- www.arla.com
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
Arla Foods in numbers
- Arla Foods owns 5 consumer brands tracked here across 1 top-level categories; the largest is food with 5 brands.[1]
- 1 of its brands originated outside Denmark.
Everything Arla Foods owns
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Brand portfolio by category
Arla Foods in the global legal-entity registry
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) keeps an open register of legal entities. Each entity reports its own parents. We show it as a cross-check on the ownership recorded on this page, which is built from filings.
- Legal entity identifier (LEI)
- 529900IJ6T4P1O10R377
- Registered name
- ARLA FOODS AMBA (DK)
- Registration status
- Issued · record updated 19 May 2026
- Parent
- None named: it reports that no person or entity controls it.
- Retrieved
- · GLEIF record (JSON)
Frequently asked questions
What brands does Arla Foods own?
Arla Foods owns 5 consumer brands tracked here, including Castello, Arla, Cravendale, Lurpak and Puck.
Is Arla Foods a Danish company?
Yes. Arla Foods is headquartered in Viby, Denmark and was founded in 2000.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Arla Foods amba Annual Report 2025 — Arla Foods amba, Annual report, published 19 February 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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