Slaney Foods owner posts €3.1m pre-tax profit

The holding company of Slaney Foods - one of the meat processors being picketed by farmers as part of an ongoing protest over beef prices - generated a pre-tax profit of €3.12m last year, newly-filed accounts show.

Slaney Foods and sister company Irish Country Meats, which processes sheepmeat, are subsidiaries of Wexford Beef and Lamb Unlimited (WBL), which is co-owned by Larry Goodman's ABP Food Group and Dungannon-based Linden Foods. ABP and Linden each own 50% of WBL.