Now milk faces delivery plight
THE boss of the UK’s biggest dairy company has warned of rising prices and missed deliveries of milk to stores and customers.
Ash Amirahmadi, managing director of Arla Foods, said that just getting milk to supermarkets is a ‘real challenge’.
By contrast, farmers around the country have been complaining about having to pour it away because there are not enough tanker drivers to make collections. Farmer-owned Arla supplies butter, spreads and cheese, as well as milk, to stores – but like other industries has been hampered by a shortage of lorry drivers.
Mr Amirahmadi told Sky News: ‘We are very mechanised when it comes to our production of milk and dairy products... but we need drivers to take that to the shops.’
He added: ‘On average we’re delivering to about 2,300 shops a day, and we’re regularly not able to deliver to about 10 per cent of our shops.’