Testing times for Greencore’s management

GREENCORE, the world’s biggest maker of prepared sandwiches, has been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately.

The €21m write-off in its Scottish mineral operations is the latest blow to a group with ambitions to become a big player in the US convenience food sector.

The group is already one of Europe’s leading producers of convenience foods since acquiring the British-based Hazlewood group in 2001.