Greencore ‘happy’ with financial goals

Greencore, the Dublin-headquartered group which supplies convenience foods to all of Britain’s main supermarket chains, is very comfortable with its financial goals for the year, helped by sales from events around Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond jubilee, says chief executive Patrick Coveney.

“We had a very, very good, positive volume uplift associated with all the jubilee events” of early June, Mr Coveney said.

Business since then has been affected by flooding in many parts of Britain, “so there are swings and roundabouts”, he said.