Patience the key to more Kerry Group glory

KERRY GROUP is one of the thoroughbreds in the corporate field but its loyal fans are beginning to wonder if its glory days are over.

Kerry Group shares, which have made millionaires out of hundreds of Kerry farmers, treaded water for the last two years and stayed stubbornly below €16.

What’s wrong with the champion food company that started on the banks of the Feale and from its Listowel base went on to conquer the world? In a word: nothing. The company is sound but has grown so big, so fast that what would once have been heralded as massive takeover coups are now small potatoes.