Dawn Foods to team up with Minerva

A €30 million joint venture between Dawn Farm Foods, based in Naas, Co Kildare, and Minerva Sao Paulo, one of Brazil’s largest beef producers and exporters, was announced yesterday.

The new company, Minerva Dawn Farms, involves the establishment of a 10,000 square metre state-of-the-art cooked meat ingredient facility in Brazil, operating to United States Department of Agriculture and European Union standards.

Work on the new facility, which will be located in Barretos, Sao Paulo, will commence this year. It is expected that the work will be completed and production will commence in 2008.