Arla Kærgården Spreadable Butter Blend

Arla Kærgården is a blended dairy spread combining real butter with rapeseed oil to ensure it remains easily spreadable straight from the refrigerator. Originally created and launched in Denmark in 1990 by Danish dairy cooperative MD Foods (which later merged to become Arla Foods), the brand quickly gained immense popularity and expanded across Europe, establishing a particularly dominant market presence in Germany.

The product packaging indicates dairy identification marks representing manufacturing facilities in Germany (DE RP 247 EU, located in Pronsfeld) and Denmark (DK M199 EU, Holstebro Smørmejeri), showing that depending on the production batch, manufacturing takes place in either Denmark or Germany.

The brand is owned and produced by Arla Foods amba, a major multinational dairy cooperative headquartered in Viby, Denmark. Owned collectively by dairy farmers across Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, Arla Foods manages local marketing and distribution through subsidiaries such as Arla Foods Deutschland GmbH.