Walsh elected by board to take helm at Glanbia

THE new chairman of Glanbia Plc, the €1.8 billion turnover international dairy, consumer foods and nutritional products company, is Michael Walsh, who farms at Graiguenamanagh, Co Kilkenny.

He was elected at a board meeting in Kilkenny yesterday to succeed Tom Corcoran, Bohadoon, Dungarvan, Co Waterford, who has retired as chairman, a post he had filled for the past five years, and also as a director of the company.

Mr Walsh, who has been vice chairman of the board since 1996, has also been appointed chairman of Glanbia Co-op. He is a director of the Irish Co-operative Organisation Society and the Irish Dairy Board Co-op. The board elected Victor Quinlan as a vice-chairman, in succession to Mr Walsh.