Agri-Business
Kerry Group pays its top 4 executives €10.5m in 2015 (up €2m)
The top four executives in Kerry Group were paid a total of €10.5m in salaries, benefits, pensions and performance-related bonuses...
Agri-Business
Agri-Business
ABP set to make move for Polish beef processor
ABP Food Group is set to acquire additional beef processing capabilities in Poland. ABP, Ireland’s largest beef processor, recently notified the...
Agri-Business
Tesco criticised by farmers for using 'fictional farms' in own branding
Tesco has been criticised by the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) for using fictional farms in its branding for it’s Everyday...
Agri-Business
Alltech to name distillery after founder Pearse Lyons in Dublin
Alltech is to name a distillery after its founder Pease Lyons and is set to open in the spring of...
Agri-Business
A supermarket is growing its own vegetables - in the aisle!
Vegetables are being grown inside a supermarket in Berlin, Germany, where one space in the store is dedicated to a...
Agri-Business
Tesco cuts part of Glanbia's milk supply contract
Glanbia has lost part of its milk contract to supply own-brand milk to Tesco to Arrabawn and Aurivo. Following a...
Agri-Business
MEPs reiterate call for mandatory country of origin labelling of meat and milk
Food safety MEPs reiterated their support for introducing mandatory country of origin labelling of meat and milk, in a non-binding...
Agri-Business
Farmers meet Ulster Bank over sale of farm loans to vulture funds
The IFA and Ulster Farmers Union (UFU) met with Ulster Bank last week to raise concerns over the possible sale of...
Agri-Business
Nestlé to invest €25m in its Limerick research centre
Nestlé is to invest over €25m to expand its Research and Development (R&D) Centre is Askeaton, in Co. Limerick. Nestlé’s...
Agri-Business
Diverging trends in EU retail dairy sales per capita
Over the last ten years, retail sales of dairy products followed diverging trends in the EU, according to latest research...
Dairy
Anger as UK government advises consumers to halve dairy intake
The future of Ireland’s most important dairy market has been dealt a blow as the UK government is advising consumers...
Agri-Business
Food and live animal exports up 8% on January 2015
Exports of food and live animals in January 2016 increased by €52m (+8%) to €705m when compared January 2015, the latest...
Machinery
Kildare tractor cab manufacturer to double workforce
C&G Engineering Ltd, a tractor cab and component manufacturing business based in Clane, Co. Kildare has announced it will double...
Agri-Business
European sales drive Aryzta's growth
Aryzta has announced a 5.5% increase in revenue in its half year results, which it published today. The Swiss based...
Agri-Business
Dairygold protester ends sit in, now faces High Court
Ned McCarthy, the dairy farmer who staged a sit-in last week, left Dairygold’s Mitchelstown office over the weekend. McCarthy was...
Agri-Business
ABP/Slaney tie-up to be investigated in Brussels
Fane Valley Co-Op and ABP Food Group have been informed that the proposed 50:50 joint venture in relation to Slaney...
Agri-Business
Glanbia's top brass received €1.5m in cash incentives in 2015
Glanbia increased its pay to its top employees in 2015, including cash incentives totalling €1.515m to its top four earners....
Agri-Business
Vets take top training award to help get key messages to farmers
XLVets Skillnet has won the top award for Best Learning & Development Organisation – Networks & Groups at the Irish...
