Dairy group Arla's raises 2024 revenue outlook on higher prices
Recasts, updates throughout with company seeing higher prices
By Isabelle Yr Carlsson
COPENHAGEN, Aug 28 (Reuters) -Denmark's Arla, one of the world's biggest dairy producers and the maker of Lurpak butter and Castello cheese, raised its full-year revenue outlook on Wednesday and said it expected prices to rise, despite reporting a drop in first-half revenue.
While dairy prices declined in late 2023 and early 2024 from historically highs levels early last year, a shift in the balance of supply and demand was again making products more expensive, Arla said.
"As the global milk production saw a decline in the first half of 2024, the global dairy price levels in commodities, retail and foodservice generally continued the upward trend, enabling price increases across markets," Arla CEO Peder Tuborgh said in a statement.
The company said it expected a positive trend in consumer purchasing power from the first half of 2024 to extend into the second half of the year, especially in Europe, as inflationary pressure continues to subside and wages increase.
"Demand for dairy is likely to keep rising, although it is unclear how consumers will respond to higher retail prices after the commodity price increases in the first half of 2024," the company said.
Revenuein the January-June period decreased 6% from a year earlier to 6.6 billion euros ($7.35 billion), after historically high dairy prices hadboosted revenue last year, the company said.
Arla now expects full-year revenue in a range of between 13.4 billion and 13.9 billion euros, up from 13.2 billion to 13.7 billion euros seen previously, citing increasing prices and volume expectations.
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Reporting by Isabelle Yr Carlsson, editing by Terje Solsvik and Sharon Singleton
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