Kerry Group’s proposal to sell its milk processing business makes sense on paper but emotions run high ahead of next month’s shareholder votes.
In June, an audit found the State’s oversight of pet food production is “not fit for purpose”. Released records point to serious ramifications if things don't improve, and fast.
Workers at Ukraine’s largest agribusiness have been sent to the front, its stores bombed and its exports to the EU criticised by politicians and protesting farmers. Its executive chairman John Rich takes inspiration from the UK’s response to the Blitz.
Tom Keogh is a third-generation farmer. But the man behind Keogh’s Crisps also understands the value of brand more than most. In this interview, he reveals how it helped drive a 200-year-old family business in a new and innovative direction.
The businessman who died on Saturday did not “invent” the Kerrygold brand alone but he did something much more important: He proved that exporting Irish dairy could be profitable.
The funding aimed to turn the Belfast company into a global leader of integrated animal, human and environmental health solutions. Having sold down assets, it is refocusing on livestock feed ingredients instead.
The long quest for equity investment is finally bearing fruit at the indebted livestock nutrition group. It took the sale of its research farm and improved terms for new shareholders, though.
A product used to artificially inseminate sows is at the centre of a swathe of newly filed High Court cases against an Irish firm and a Dutch supplier.
Dairymaster is one of Ireland’s most innovative and successful family businesses. However, it has also been hit by a lengthy family dispute, exposing tensions, acrimony and contested claims.
From dairy exports-driven agriculture to the reliance on corporation tax paid by multinationals, the wind-down of the Askeaton infant formula plant exposes multiple risks for Ireland on a single site.
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