Contributions from acquisitions and favourable currency movements led to Origin Enterprises posting a 3.5% year-on-year increase in first-quarter revenues, to €318m.

Just one in 10 shoppers believe the country of origin labelling in Irish shops and supermarkets is clear.

Diversified support services group DCC has reached agreement to sell 80% of its food and beverage division for €60m.

Agri-services group Origin Enterprises has increased its full-year earnings outlook by 3% on the back of a strong third quarter performance.

Agri-services group Origin Enterprises expects to meet its full-year financial targets, despite seeing a 12.5% (€44m) annualised decline in first-quarter revenues.

Origin Enterprises has moved to strengthen its focus on its core agri-services business by agreeing to sell its marine proteins interests for €90m-plus.

The price of bread is set to rise in 2013 as millers, bakers, and retailers feel the knock-on effect of poor global wheat harvests.

Agri-services group Origin Enterprises has reported a weak start to its latest financial year, with revenue growth impacted by the wet summer weather.

Agri-services group Origin Enterprises has seen its revenues rise 7% for the year to date, having reached the nine-month mark to Apr 30 in its fiscal year.

Agri-food group Origin Enterprises has reported net profit of €6.4m for its accounting first-half year to Jan 31, a reduced profit level on this period last year, explained by the seasonality of new acquisitions UAP and Masstock.

Ireland’s heavy dependence on imported bread flour is to increase with the closure of the Odlums industrial-sized flour mill on Alexandra Road, Dublin.

SMALL food producers are being prevented from expanding by a crosswind of the global downturn, commodity-cost volatility and lower consumer demand, according to an expert Rabobank analyst.

BOYNE Valley Foods has acquired the Irish division of British food group Premier Foods for €41.4 million.

AGRI-services group Origin Enterprises has delivered 10% underlying growth in revenue in the first quarter pushing shares ahead by 3.7% yesterday.

RESTRUCTURING costs at Jacob Fruitfield Food Group Ltd last year contributed to pre-tax profits plummeting by 81% to €2.1 million.

AGRI-FOOD company Origin Enterprises and its majority shareholder, the Irish-Swiss bakery group Aryzta, have both refused to comment at length on reports that Origin has received a £400 million (€464m) takeover offer from an unknown private equity house.

VALEO Foods — the joint-venture of Batchelors and Origin Enterprises’ branded food division — has acquired iconic Irish consumer food group, Jacob Fruitfield for an undisclosed sum.

ORIGIN ENTERPRISES, owners of Masstock and R&H Hall, increased first-half sales by 3% to €613 million.

ONE of the key players in the agri-food sector has called for a new emphasis on agriculture and food as a means of delivering sustainable economic growth.

Batchelors and Origin Foods are to merge to form Valeo Foods, it was announced today.