Organisation: Kerry Co-Op

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<p>Kerry Group is eyeing 11%-15% growth in earnings per share amid strong sales in the retail channel while foodservice continues to be impacted by restrictions in many markets.</p>

companies

Kerry reinstates earnings guidance as review of dairy business continues

CEO tight-lipped about restructuring plans as group release healthy first-quarter figures

news

Farmers throw air ambulance cash lifeline

The cash-strapped air ambulance is set to be thrown a massive cash lifeline by farmers.

business

Milk suppliers will escalate protests outside Kerry Group HQ unless demands are met

A group of milk suppliers who protested outside Kerry Group Headquarters in Tralee on Wednesday morning say they will escalate their protests if their demands to meet with management on milk price is not met.

farming

110 acres for sale near Sneem: Ring of Kerry location and derelict farmhouse among the selling points

farming

Kerry farm with quality grassland to attract plenty of attention

farming

COMMENT: Sour taste from Kerry Co-op share redemption plan

110-acre Co Kerry farm likely to exceed €1m at auction

The public auction on Tuesday, May 30 of a 110-acre farm located near Killarney should guarantee a sizeable turnout.

Thu, 25 Apr, 2019

Kerry’s dairy role in ‘melt in your mouth’ chocolate

Maltesers, a favourite sweet for more than 80 years, and now available in the USA, includes a key ingredient exclusively supplied by the Kerry Foods Global taste and nutrition business.

Thu, 29 Nov, 2018

Kieran Coughlan: Farmers who got tax bills for Kerry Co-op sharesfacing some hard choices

It’s make or break time for Kerry Co-op farmers.

Thu, 08 Dec, 2016

Kieran Coughlan: Income tax shock for milk suppliers to Kerry Co-op

Revenue has issued letters to Kerry Co-op milk suppliers this week.

Thu, 24 Nov, 2016

Tax shocks for dairy and poultry farmers

Dairy farmers and accountants have been shocked by the Revenue Commissioners linking of the receipt of shares by Kerry milk suppliers to trading receipts.

Thu, 24 Nov, 2016

Cream of the crop take top honours in Bord Bia’s Origin Green programme

Ireland’s most sustainable, efficient and environmentally friendly family farms were honoured recently at Bord Bia’s Origin Green Sustainable Producer Awards.

Thu, 03 Nov, 2016

Kerry Group reaffirms its commitment to milk suppliers

Kerry Group has reaffirmed its commitment to its milk suppliers in Munster amid local surprise at group CEO Stan McCarthy’s decision to step down from his role as co-op chief executive.

Wed, 11 May, 2016

Kerry Group reaffirms its commitment to milk suppliers

Kerry Group has reaffirmed its commitment to its milk suppliers in Munster amid local surprise at group CEO Stan McCarthy’s decision to step down from his role as co-op chief executive.

Wed, 11 May, 2016

Appetite for growth drives Irish agrifood firms’ success

Wealth creation is a subject that stirs up emotive debate in many quarters. If you are for it, some will condemn your mad capitalistic instincts. 

Wed, 03 Dec, 2014

Auto-milking is the future ... in Kerry anyway

One of the first DeLaval auto-milking systems in Europe with ABC-grazing has been set up on the predominantly spring-calving O’Hanlon dairy farm near Ballyduff in North Kerry.

Thu, 04 Sep, 2014

‘Foot in the Door’ training clinics for agrifood jobseekers to begin

Agrifood sector jobseekers will gather in Mallow next Thursday for the first in a series of free nationwide ‘Foot in the Door’ training and advisory clinics.

Thu, 22 May, 2014

NZ farmers select Irish bulls for cattle breeding

New Zealand farmers are choosing Irish bulls for their cattle breeding and boosting the potential for further growth in semen exports.

Wed, 01 Jan, 2014

Town keeps its locals onside amid changes

Five years ago, business in Newcastle West was challenging. Claire O’Sullivan returns to see what changes have occurred and how owners have coped

Wed, 16 Oct, 2013

Glanbia announces rise in milk price following Kerry Co-op hike

Glanbia has announced a May milk price lift of 1.9c/l to 35.3c/l plus Vat; earlier Kerry Co-op had lifted their May milk price 2.86c/l to 36.26c/l plus VAT.

Sat, 15 Jun, 2013

€270m windfall for Kerry Co-op

Kerry Co-op members are to share a €270m windfall in Kerry Group shares next month, bringing to €2.9bn the total value of shares transferred to co-op members in the past 20 years.

Thu, 09 May, 2013

Dairy sector expansion plans ‘will cost farmers less than quota spend’

AMBITIOUS plans to expand the dairy sector will cost farmers less than half of the €825 million they spent buying quota over the past 20 years, the Irish Co-Operative Organisation Society (ICOS) has said.

Thu, 03 Nov, 2011

Kerry Co-op agree change to transfer a 25% shareholding to Kerry Group

MEMBERS of Kerry Co-op have approved a change in shareholder regulations which is now likely to lead to the transfer of 25% of their shareholding to Kerry Group PLC.

Wed, 17 Aug, 2011

Kerry milk price pledge welcomed by farm groups

KERRY Group has given firm commitments on milk price and any capital investments required for future processing at strategy meetings with farmer groups in Dublin yesterday.

Tue, 09 Aug, 2011

Kerry Co-op shareholders agree by 80% majority to ownership changes

MORE than 1,600 Kerry Co-op shareholders yesterday agreed by an 80% majority to changes which will net them a €290 million windfall in a share exchange with Kerry Group.

Thu, 21 Jul, 2011

Dairy farmers and co-ops to source loans from overseas banks

DAIRY farmers and the Irish co-ops have come up with a joint plan to agree competitive loans with Rabobank, a leading US bank and other overseas lenders.

Tue, 12 Apr, 2011

TD warns over profiteering

A TD has warned any businesses trying to profit from Cork’s flood disaster that they will be reported to the director of consumer affairs.

Wed, 25 Nov, 2009

Dairy farmers call on Kerry Co-op to adjust its milk price upwards

DAIRY farmers held an emergency meeting in Tralee last night to call on Kerry Co-op to adjust its milk price upwards.

Tue, 12 Aug, 2008

Kerry co-op shareholders to get €200m

KERRY CO-OP shareholders in south Munster are in line for a €200m plus windfall in the coming months.

Tue, 19 Jun, 2007

Brave decision by Glanbia

FEW relationships in the world of business are stranger than that between Irish dairy farmers and the public limited company arms of their co-ops.

Thu, 17 Aug, 2006

Farmers benefit from co-op’s plc shares

KERRY Co-op has transferred 10% of its equity stake in Kerry Group Plc directly back to its farmer shareholders.

Tue, 20 Jun, 2006

Southern Ring Road battle ends in defeat for Mungret multi-award-winner

ONE of the country’s best-known dairy farms is exiting the industry to make way for a new highway.

Thu, 25 May, 2006

Cattle disease link to Kerry Group success

BRUCELLOSIS has played a bigger role in Kerry than most other counties, shaping the course of farming, and even the course of the county’s economic life during the early 1970s.

Thu, 13 Apr, 2006

Producers bid to end Kerry dispute

STEPS are being taken to resolve a lengthy price dispute between liquid milk suppliers and Kerry Co-op.

Fri, 25 Nov, 2005

Dairy farms failing hygiene standards get final warnings

MILK producers with sub-standard farmyards are being spared the difficult choice between getting out of farming in 2004 or in 2005.

Thu, 29 Jan, 2004

Brosnan walks away from Kerry Group

KERRY Group legend Denis Brosnan has walked away from the leading global food ingredients company he helped create.

Wed, 06 Aug, 2003

Further reduction in milk quota leeway in January

A FURTHER 1.5m gallons was wiped off the national quota leeway for milk producers in January.

Thu, 06 Mar, 2003

Milk price a big issue in race for Kerry seats

MILK price will be an election issue in north Munster next month, when farmers in the former Golden Vale Co-op area vote three colleagues onto the board of Kerry Group.

Thu, 22 Aug, 2002

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