Dairygold job cuts a wake up call

THE PLIGHT of 500 workers at Dairygold Co-op whose jobs are due to disappear over Christmas will be for nothing, unless everyone in the company, and in the Irish food industry in general, realises this is a wake up call to a new business era.

The bosses at Dairygold are aware of this.

They know that the choices facing them are a slow death on the one hand, or innovating and moving up the value chain on the other hand.