Teal is such a beautiful colour, it deserves to be incorporated into the kitchen. Check out this 'Volcanic' petite round casserole dish from Le Creuset, it’s yummy. Available for €18 or thereabouts from www.lecreuset.com, Debenhams, Brown Thomas, Shaws and other stockists.

Anyone ever heard of the omnium?

Founded in 2009 with the aim of creating a pillow that would be impervious to infection, Gabriel Scientific has seen its hermetically sealed pillow used in hospitals around Europe, but is not resting on its laurels and has ambitious growth plans, writes Trish Dromey

KERRY Group has no plans to forsake its Tralee roots by transferring its headquarters to the US.

INTERNATIONAL food and ingredients maker Kerry Group has delivered earnings per share at the upper end of market expectations for last year.

Staff at Shaws department stores around the country have called off plans for a three-day strike.

LIMERICK lingo is a rule onto its own.

TESCO’S newest multimillion euro premises in Cork will be able to open today after the company and its staff reached a temporary agreement on terms and conditions.

Trade union Mandate today announced that 87% of its members in Shaws department stores have voted for strike action in a row over cost-cutting measures imposed by the retailer.

THE CompetitionAuthority is facing a substantial legal costs bill following its unsuccessful High Court defence of its refusal to permit theacquisition by the Kerry Group of Breeo, the consumer foods company formed following the restructuring of Dairygold.

Mandate trade union today announced that they are balloting for industrial action in Shaws department stores.

REOX Holdings has seen operating profits plunge from e20.8 million to e5.6m in the year to September 30, 2008.

PORK products recalled by Kerry Group alone have been estimated at €4m to €5m of value, on a per week basis.

ALL the necessary controls are now in place to enable the restoration of Irish pork and bacon supplies to consumers.

A HUGE blow to the Irish pigmeat sector was how the Irish Association of Pigmeat Processors described the crisis.

REOX may be forced back into the marketplace to seek a repeat deal offering the “compelling value” which had swung its decision to sell its Breeo division to Kerry Group.

THE Competition Authority is currently deliberating on two takeovers in the food and drinks sector.

CAPVEST, the British-based specialistprivate equity firm rumoured to have been in the bidding to buy Breeo Foods, sold to Kerry Group for €165m, has announced the sale of the Foodvest Group to Lion Capital for a sum of over €1.26 billion.

Kerry Group today announced its agreement, subject to regulatory approval, to acquire Breeo Foods, a subsidiary of Irish-based Reox Holdings.

REOX Holdings is close to a deal with Kerry Group, worth in the region of €170 million, for the sale of its Irish-based consumer foods division, run by its Breeo Foods subsidiary.

ION Equity is in talks with Reox Holdings that could lead to the €200 million purchase of its consumer brands that include Galtee, Dairygold, Mitchelstown, Shaws and Calvita.

SEVERAL hundreds people are expected to mount a protest outside the Galtee Meats plant in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, today to coincide with its closure.

IAWS, one of the country’s leading convenience food groups, has been linked to a €150m buyout of the consumer brands formerly owned by Dairygold Co-op.

THE possible sale of the Irish consumer foods business of Breeo Foods could realise more than €200 million, industry sources predicted yesterday.

CONSUMERS have been urged to boycott the Galtee, Shaws and Roscrea brands amid claims they contain non-Irish pigmeat.

Fifty Irish firms will take part in the biggest food and drinks trade event this year at Croke Park.

TRADE union Mandate is demanding a one euro per hour increase for its 25,000 members working in the retail sector.

WEARING hats of every shape and size and sporting dazzling colours, women turned out in style for Ladies’ Day at Tralee Races, yesterday.

SHOPPERS gearing up for an €1.8 billion Christmas shopping spree believe the introduction of the euro has reduced their spending power dramatically.