Philip Reynolds built his family's business into a pet food giant with sales of €500m. Now he wants to help start-ups scale or fail faster and he's brought in five former KPMG partners as well as his own team to help him do it.
Serial food entrepreneur Tom Gannon has just invested in a new bar business called RYSE. Founded by marketing expert Ian O’Rourke and Pitt Bros co-founder David Stone it is targeting active 25 to 44-year-olds.
The farmer-owned dairy processor is one of Ireland’s most profitable, despite its relatively small scale. Its CEO and CFO explain why it has no plans for consolidation nor for an IPO.
Kerga, a joint-venture between BiaVest and Development Capital, has bought a German business after previously acquiring Nomadic Dairy. Münsterland is a 100-year-old business best known for co-manufacturing Jimmy’s Iced Coffee.
As the cross-border co-op returns to profit, Colin Kelly says it is near completing a major restructuring and looks forward to industry consolidation.
Edmond Scanlon has severed the links between the ingredients multinational and its historic agribusiness roots. He takes Thomas Hubert through a deep dive into Kerry’s tech-driven promise for continued growth.
Comparative results before and after Kerry Group’s divestment from its Irish manufacturing business show how beneficial the deal is to the food technology company.
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 the final part of our series on EU trade deals, Irish firms expanding in Asia could find a welcome environment in Japan. It may be the last trade deal of its kind for some time.
In the second part of our trade deal series, The Currency looks at how the 2020 EU-Vietnam agreement still leaves hurdles for Irish food exporters, while the country could serve as a beachhead for business in south-east Asia.
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