Aim: My aim with this study is to investigate whether the co-workers in the company Arla Foods is satisfied with the communication between the company and the employees. If there are any changes to be made or if it works well as it is now.Method: I have sent out invistigationforms to 85 co-workers within Arla Foods. This forms included questions about Arla Foods internal communication and how the co-workers apprehend this. I have also made 7 interviews over the phone with co-workers on the dairys around Sweden. Including in these 7 interviews have I also talked and posed questions to representatives for the trades-union within Arla Foods.

Fusionen mellan Arla och MD Foods är "Fusionen som ingen har prövat förut" har Jens Bigum verkställande direktör i Arla Foods som överskrift på sin VD-berättelse i årsredovisningen år 2000. I samband med fusionen bildades världens största mejerikooperativa företag. Det har tidigare inte gjorts någon djupare analys av fusionen mellan Arla och MD Foods. Transnationella fusioner mellan två företag hyllas ofta som en lösning. Fördelar i samband med en fusion kan vara: mer resurser och säkrad framtid för mjölkproducenterna. Det är dock inte alltid fusionerna lever upp till förväntningarna.

 This paper is about the conflict between the Middle East and the Western world after the Danish newspapers? cartoon publications of the prophet Muhammed in October 2005. The conflict resulted in massive reactions in the Middle East and the Danish-Swedish dairy company Arla Foods, was boycotted during six months in 2006. The aim of this study is to describe how the biggest Swedish daily newspaper,Dagens Nyheter and three Saudiarabic newspapers Al-Hayat, Al-Watan and Shark Al-Awsat described "the Other" during the crisis in the year of 2006. Another aim is to describe how Arla Foods managed the consumer boycott.

Vid millennieskiftet stod det klart att två av Europas största mejeriföretag skulle fusioneras ihop till ett företaget. Svenska koncernen Arla och den danska MD Foods gick ihop i en så kallad merger of equals vilket innebär att fusionen äger rum mellan likvärdiga parter.Efter fusionen går det att ifrågasätta om fusionen verkligen blev jämn. Eftersom både styrelseordförande och VD:n är danskar samt att koncernledningen till stor del är danskt. Huvudkontoret placerades även i den danska staden Århus. Det är därför osäkert om begreppet merger of equals var ett knep för att få företagets ägare och medlemmar att gå med på att fusioneras.

Today we live in an interconnected world. Through globalization and the development of information technology one can say that, today everyone is our neighbour. The result of our actions can easily spread and affect people on the other side of the world within seconds.Meanwhile, Third World countries are developing into stable economies and Western European corporations are expanding like never before and setting up their organizations in these new markets.This of course is not unproblematic, it creates new challenges for international organizations especially when it comes to communication. An example of that same problematic communication presented itself for Arla Foods in what came to be called the Cartoon Crisis.In late September of 2005 a number of cartoons depicting the holy prophet Muhammed were published in a Danish newspaper. This event sparked scores of protest ranging from Morocco to the Philippines.

Surrogate boycotts are highly threatening for corporations in terms of both economical cost and image damage. All corporations are due to our globalized environment and increased stakeholder fragmentation gradually more risking to become victims of surrogate boycotts, which of nature is hard if not impossible to predict and prevent. Corporations are generally recommended to build clear and strong corporate identities, which should be reflected in their most important stakeholders, as this will secure minimum damage on the corporate image. Even a surrogate boycott situation can have positive effects on corporations, especially in terms of image, as such situation increases the brand involvement and thereby make it possible for corporations to connect with important stakeholders on an emotional level. .

Surrogate boycotts are highly threatening for corporations in terms of both economical cost and image damage. All corporations are due to our globalized environment and increased stakeholder fragmentation gradually more risking to become victims of surrogate boycotts, which of nature is hard if not impossible to predict and prevent. Corporations are generally recommended to build clear and strong corporate identities, which should be reflected in their most important stakeholders, as this will secure minimum damage on the corporate image.Even a surrogate boycott situation can have positive effects on corporations, especially in terms of image, as such situation increases the brand involvement and thereby make it possible for corporations to connect with important stakeholders on an emotional level..

This master thesis was written for Arla Foods and the result of the thesisserves to gain Arla Foods in its work with chemical hazardous and to bringnew academic results. The thesis aims to create a common methodology forrisk analysis with the handling of chemicals.The theories displayed in this thesis focuses on different risk managementmethods in order to build up a framework out of which a risk management toolwas created. The main primary data source consists of interviews held withemployees within Arla Foods at different facilities.The risk management tool can be found in appendix K.Available recommendations for how to evaluate risks with chemicals can befound at appropriate government agencies. These recommendations aredrawn up to suite small and medium enterprises and therefore are to narrowto make a good foundation for analysing chemical risks at large companies.With the legislation and government demands in mind, a tool has beencreated to fit a large company?s needs when managing chemical risks.

This master thesis was written for Arla Foods and the result of the thesisserves to gain Arla Foods in its work with chemical hazardous and to bringnew academic results. The thesis aims to create a common methodology forrisk analysis with the handling of chemicals.The theories displayed in this thesis focuses on different risk managementmethods in order to build up a framework out of which a risk management toolwas created. The main primary data source consists of interviews held withemployees within Arla Foods at different facilities.The risk management tool can be found in appendix K.Available recommendations for how to evaluate risks with chemicals can befound at appropriate government agencies. These recommendations aredrawn up to suite small and medium enterprises and therefore are to narrowto make a good foundation for analysing chemical risks at large companies.With the legislation and government demands in mind, a tool has beencreated to fit a large company?s needs when managing chemical risks.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att beskriva och jämföra hur ledningen i tre lantbrukskooperativ använder sig av verksamhetsstyrning, samt att analysera lantbrukskooperativens användande av verksamhetsstyrning utifrån modern verksamhetsstyrningsteori. Fallstudier har gjorts och datainsamlingen har skett genom intervjuer. En avgränsning har gjorts till att enbart behandla tre mejerier med olika storlek. Mejerier har valts eftersom mejeriernas standardiserade råvara underlättar en jämförelse företagen emellan. Undersökningsobjekten är Gefleortens, Milko och Arla Foods.

This master thesis was written for Arla Foods and the result of the thesisserves to gain Arla Foods in its work with chemical hazardous and to bringnew academic results. The thesis aims to create a common methodology forrisk analysis with the handling of chemicals.The theories displayed in this thesis focuses on different risk managementmethods in order to build up a framework out of which a risk management toolwas created. The main primary data source consists of interviews held withemployees within Arla Foods at different facilities.The risk management tool can be found in appendix K.Available recommendations for how to evaluate risks with chemicals can befound at appropriate government agencies. These recommendations aredrawn up to suite small and medium enterprises and therefore are to narrowto make a good foundation for analysing chemical risks at large companies.With the legislation and government demands in mind, a tool has beencreated to fit a large company?s needs when managing chemical risks.

This master thesis was written for Arla Foods and the result of the thesisserves to gain Arla Foods in its work with chemical hazardous and to bringnew academic results. The thesis aims to create a common methodology forrisk analysis with the handling of chemicals.The theories displayed in this thesis focuses on different risk managementmethods in order to build up a framework out of which a risk management toolwas created. The main primary data source consists of interviews held withemployees within Arla Foods at different facilities.The risk management tool can be found in appendix K.Available recommendations for how to evaluate risks with chemicals can befound at appropriate government agencies. These recommendations aredrawn up to suite small and medium enterprises and therefore are to narrowto make a good foundation for analysing chemical risks at large companies.With the legislation and government demands in mind, a tool has beencreated to fit a large company?s needs when managing chemical risks.

Detta examensarbete är utfört vid Linköpings Tekniska Högskola och Arla Foods i Linköping under vårterminen 2009.Arla Foods i Linköping invigdes år 1978 och går under benämningen specialproduktsmejeri. Ett specialproduktsmejeri arbetar i huvudsak med att förädla basprodukter genom att t.ex. smaksätta creme fraiche, yoghurt och mjölk.Detta arbete inleddes med en omfattande datainsamling och intervjuer med anställda på mejeriet vilket bidrog till att skapa en bild av nuläget på mejeriet som i rapporten kunde beskrivas och analyseras. Syftet med detta examensarbete var att undersöka om dagens sätt att styra materialflödet av emballage kunde förbättras samt att undersöka vilka möjligheter en ny lagerlokal skulle ge. Analysen visade att det fanns rum för förbättring vad gällde bl.a.

The purpose of this thesis is to give an understanding of how grocery stores relate to local foods. Through a case study representatives for two groceries in Norrbotten have been interviewed regarding why they supply local foods, how they try to influence customers to buy this, and how they decide upon the assortment of local foods. The result shows that groceries supply local foods in order to supply a wide range of products and to mediate social responsibility, in order to create customer loyalty. Concerning how the groceries try to influence customers to buy local foods the result cannot give any clear-cut view. Instead it shows that a grocery that actively works to influence customers to buy local foods markets them in specific ways, while the opposite applies to a grocery that does not actively work for this.

Syftet med denna uppsats är att beskriva för- och nackdelar som uppstår för en varumärkesinnehavare då dennes varumärke, utav konsumenter, har kommit att uppfattas som en allmän benämning av en produktkategori. Även orsaker till fenomenet samt förebyggande åtgärder kommer att beröras. Ämnet är inte belyst i större utsträckning, varken inom teori eller i praktik. Syftet besvarades med hjälp av att studera Arla Foods varumärke KESO® som i uppsatsen konstateras vara en allmän benämning för produkten cottage cheese. Teori kring varumärken generellt samt ämnesspecifik teori sammanställdes för att fungera som ett analysverktyg.