Shares in Irish consumer food group Greencore jumped by as much as nearly 7% after it said it has not suffered any disruption to its supply chain or production network.

Marks & Spencer has poached Greencore’s chief financial officer Eoin Tonge as the troubled retailing giant continues to seek a change in its fortunes.

Greencore has said it will review its executive pay strategy in the wake of nearly a third of its shareholders voting against policy at its AGM.

There has been a marked swing in business sentiment with regard to the UK market. Many believe, like Patrick Coveney, the chief executive of Greencore, that political certainty and stability is slowly returning despite the looming UK general election on December 12.

Greencore is expected to make further bolt-on acquisitions in the UK following its £56m (€61.5m) purchase of prepared salads maker Freshtime.

Greencore is expected to make further bolt-on acquisitions in the UK following its £56m (€61.5m) purchase of prepared salads maker Freshtime.

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Greencore boss Patrick Coveney expects the sandwich-making group to undertake "quite a bit" of acquisition activity in the UK market over the next three to five years.

Former sugar plant in Mallow could be sold and/or developed Greencore says it is ready to talk about future options for the use of what was the last sugar manufacturing plant in Ireland.

Greencore boss Patrick Coveney has admitted the sandwiches and wraps-maker has grown less optimistic about the chances of a smooth and orderly Brexit and is putting greater emphasis than before on planning for a hard or no-deal outcome.

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Greencore shares fell by over 5% as a better-than-expected trading update and talk of a recovery in its US operations failed to impress investors.

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Greencore shares fell by 3.25% despite it completing its exit from the non-core dessert and cakes business amid upbeat sentiment surrounding its first trading update of the year, due today.

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Shares in consumer foods group Greencore fell a further 8% yesterday, even after management rushed to soothe investor fears over share price erosion in recent days.

Greencore is confident of adding to its customer base in the US — where it currently provides food products to the likes of Starbucks and 7-Eleven — on the back of growing capacity there.

The huge run up for shares of US giants, such as Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and the Alphabet-owned Google, as well as semiconductor stocks, may have peaked, according to the latest global outlook from Merrion Capital.

Any venture to develop a combined sugar/bioethanol production facility in Ireland would have to be a viable commercial proposition.

Greencore shares rebounded by more than 9% yesterday after management reaffirmed the growth potential afforded by its recent purchase of US company Peacock Foods.

Health Minister Simon Harris has refused to be drawn on who he is backing to replace Enda Kenny as Taoiseach, despite reports he has attended closed-doors meetings of Housing Minister Simon Coveney’s campaign team.

The Irish food industry continues to provide a variety of dynamic and progressive examples of entrepreneurship and business development. 

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Irish food-to-go supplier Greencore (GNC) has struck a €547m deal to buy American peer Peacock Foods in a bid to strengthen its US business.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Convenience foods firm Greencore, which only this week bought out another sandwich maker in Britain, said it will likely avoid any immediate big hit from the slump in sterling this year, though its debt load could rise in the longer term.

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A €254m jump in the value of goods exports helped drive a near 22% surge in Ireland’s trade surplus in April, newly published preliminary figures from the CSO show.

The chief executive of the largest Irish company operating in the UK has warned those campaigning for Britain to leave the EU that they are “sleepwalking into a very dangerous place”, adding that a Brexit would be “very, very bad for the Irish, European, and world economies”.

Last week we hosted an Investor Day to showcase 9th Irish Food and Agri-companies to existing and potential shareholders.

Fintech is a buzzword that has developed in financial markets. It refers to companies that combine technology with financial services to introduce new competition in the vast banking and insurance markets.

Greencore has no ambitions to return to sugar production despite the new Government saying it will offer State support to prospective sugar beet processors — when sugar quotas expire in 2017 — in a bid to rebuild the industry here.

Some of the country’s most prominent business leaders have warned against squandering the country’s vulnerable economic recovery in the general election.

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney’s businessman brother has publicly questioned how so many people have been “left behind” in what he described as the “unprecedented economic recovery” of recent years.