Peter O’Dwyer casts an eye over the nominated firms in the emerging category in the Cork Company of The Year Awards 2016.

On China’s version of Valentine’s Day, big international chocolate makers like Hershey are not feeling the love.

For the first time, the world is eating more fish from farms than from the open sea, spurring billions of euro of takeovers as one of the largest food companies seeks to capitalise on rising demand.

Climate change is likely to exact enormous costs on US regional economies in the form of lost property, reduced industrial output, and more deaths, according to a report backed by a trio of men with vast business experience.

It’s getting late in the bar in Alphabet City on the Lower East Side.

Based in West Cork, Global Shares provides international companies with employee share schemes, and after a bumper 2012, it is now looking to hire additional staff for its Clonakilty headquarters, writes Trish Dromey

Shares in Kerry Group outpaced all its global peers in the past two months — allowing it to overtake Ryanair as the largest company with a main listing on the Irish Stock Exchange.

France’s long-standing farm co-operatives will need to scale up further and build effective infrastructure to avoid being marginalised as niche players while global commodity giants broaden their footprint on international grain markets.

The era of falling food prices has come to an end with the world’s population set to rise by 2bn people, according to US farm commodities trader, Cargill Inc.

Food group Kerry has completed the acquisition of Cargill’s global flavours business in a deal worth $230m (€170m), the company said today.

KERRY Group has reported a 7.9% year-on-year increase in overall sales for the first nine months of this year.

KERRY Group is on course to spend between €400 million and €500m on acquisitions this year, following yesterday’s announcement that it is to buy Cargill Flavor Systems for $230m (€170.1m).

KERRY GROUP has acquired a German-owned sweet ingredients company.

A growing belief that the US is heading towards recession gave the stock market its fourth straight week of losses.

THE ISEQ index lost more ground yesterday, to close down 35.94 points at 2,825.75.

KERRY Group has entered exclusive talks with US-based agri-food group Cargill over buying its global flavours business.

GLENCORE’S bid to become the biggest company on the London Stock Exchange reveals where power and profits lie in food production.

GREENCORE Group confirmed yesterday that it has had a number of approaches that could lead to the sale of its international malt business.

THE Venezuelan government has seized a €500,000 1,500-hectare (3,707 acres) plot of land owned by Smurfit Kappa Group.

One of the UK’s largest power stations was sold today to French merger partners Gaz de France (GdF) and Suez.

The Enterprise Ireland open innovation in the food industry seminar took place in Cork yesterday.

GREENCORE’S apparent disinterest in ethanol from sugar beet is typical of the company’s conservative approach.

Swiss food group Nestlé is to sell its cocoa bean processing site in York in England to US food company Cargill.

THERE’S a new Big Six in the grain market, after the Irish Competition Authority’s successful court case against half a dozen farmers, following an investigation into the IFA’s alleged “cartel” activities.