Person: Kevin Lane

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Ornua acquires UK-based cheese ingredients firm

Ornua, Ireland’s largest exporter of Irish dairy products, has signed an agreement to acquire FJ Need (Foods), a Cheshire-based cheese ingredients company.

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Ornua begins €10m extension of its German plant

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Ornua adds to US food services with CoreFX Ingredients acquisition

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Ornua targets €1bn Kerrygold sales

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Kerrygold Park completes the value chain

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Dairy outlook set to improve by early 2017 says Ornua chief

Ornua to invest €250m globally

Ornua is to invest €250m in overseas acquisitions from now to 2020 developing markets for Ireland’s soaring post-quota milk output.

Wed, 13 Apr, 2016

Technology underpins Irish dairy expansion

Pioneering technology developed at the Teagasc food research centre in Moorepark, Co Cork, is underpinning a new €20m cheese manufacturing facility for Ornua in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Sat, 26 Mar, 2016

Dairy farmers welcome €15m Ornua bonus to suppliers

Dairy farmers have welcomed a decision by Ornua, the agri-food co-operative, to pay an additional €15m bonus to its member suppliers.

Mon, 18 Jan, 2016

Dairy applauds top performers

Eight of the 13 farm families in contention for tomorrow’s prestigious Dairy Farmer of the Year award are from Munster and five of them are in Cork.

Mon, 19 Oct, 2015

Ornua’s Spanish base to develop products for EU customers

A new research and development centre opened by Ornua at its Ingredientes Espana headquarters is focused on increasing the company’s business scale in the southern European market through customer-led innovation.

Mon, 14 Sep, 2015

Ornua targets €3bn in sales

Kerrygold exporter Ornua has just finalised a five-year plan that sets a goal of €3bn for Irish dairy sales.

Wed, 22 Apr, 2015

Dairy firm Ornua to grow via acquisition and sales

Further acquisitions, partnerships, and placing marketing personnel in target markets will be central to Ornua’s global sales growth plans.

Wed, 22 Apr, 2015

Profits up at Kerrygold firm

Ireland’s largest exporter of Irish dairy products today announced a 23% rise in profit before tax in 2014.

Tue, 21 Apr, 2015

Irish Dairy Board unveils ‘Ornua’ as new global identity

Ireland’s largest exporter of Irish dairy products, the Irish Dairy Board, has unveiled its new global corporate identity, Ornua — The Home of Irish Dairy.

Mon, 13 Apr, 2015

New corporate identity for dairy exports

The Irish Dairy Board has unveiled a new global corporate identity, Ornua — The Home of Irish Dairy.

Wed, 01 Apr, 2015

Bright future for milk producers as April sees quotas abolished

There is a bright future for Irish milk producers when quotas are abolished in April 2015. 

Thu, 04 Dec, 2014

Dairy sector sets clock for ‘countdown to abolition’

Dairy sector stakeholders will gain insights on Ireland’s progress into new overseas markets at the National Dairy Conference next Wednesday in Dublin.

Thu, 13 Nov, 2014

Irish Dairy Board opens US cheese plant

The Irish Dairy Board yesterday opened a new $12m (€8.8m) cheese-making facility in the US which will increase its production capacity by 40%.

Thu, 26 Jun, 2014

Co-ops invited to nominate top dairy farmers for awards

Co-ops and dairies are being invited to select and nominate their top dairy farmers for the annual National Dairy Council and Kerrygold Quality Milk Awards. The closing date for entries is the end of April.

Mon, 21 Apr, 2014

Irish Dairy Board gearing up for post-quota opportunities

The Irish Dairy Board’s accounts for 2013 show a company gearing up for the growth opportunity presented by the post-quota era.

Thu, 17 Apr, 2014

Kelly inspires Fitzgerald’s Limerick IT to victory

Limerick IT 1-14 GMIT 2-5

Wed, 12 Feb, 2014

Kerrygold butter hits record sales levels of €316m in Germany

Kerrygold sales in Germany hit a new high of €316m last year, driven by unprecedented sales of 6,000 tons of butter in the three weeks prior to Christmas.

Thu, 30 Jan, 2014

Irish Diary Board’s product offering in UK strengthened by partnership

The Irish Dairy Board’s (IDB) wholly-owned UK subsidiary, Adams Foods, has entered into a long-term strategic partnership with First Milk, the UK dairy co-operative.

Fri, 01 Nov, 2013

Irish Dairy Board takes 75% slice of Saudi firm

The Irish Dairy Board (IDB) has acquired a 75% interest in Al Wazeen Trading as part of a €20m investment in Saudi Arabia.

Thu, 31 Oct, 2013

Superb Sars a scoring machine

Sarsfields 5-12 Killeagh 2-09

Mon, 14 Oct, 2013

Kerrygold sales in Germany forecast to exceed €280m by end of year

The Irish Dairy Board has predicted record sales exceeding €280m in 2013 for Kerrygold butter in Germany, where it celebrated 40 years of trading yesterday.

Thu, 05 Sep, 2013

IFA queries why Dairy Board failed to appoint farmer as new chairman

The IFA has given a guarded welcome to the election of Aurivo Co-op chief executive Aaron Forde as the incoming chairman of the Irish Dairy Board, following the resignation of Vincent Buckley.

Thu, 13 Jun, 2013

Farm bodies, firms give €3m in extra fodder aid

The Irish Dairy Board, IFA, and agri-businesses launched more than €3m of extra fodder aid for farmers this week.

Thu, 02 May, 2013

Iconic butter a bestseller abroad

Iconic dairy brand Kerrygold is now the bestselling butter in Germany and the leading imported butter product in the US.

Wed, 10 Apr, 2013

Irish Dairy Board revenue at €2bn

New products as well as overseas acquisitions, capital investments, and ambitious plans for post-2015 growth in emerging markets, form the back story to the €2bn revenue reported in the Irish Dairy Board’s (IDB) annual results for 2012.

Wed, 10 Apr, 2013

Tesco butters up stores with Irish produce

Tesco stores in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary will stock Irish packet butter as part of the chain’s new €20m supply contract with the Irish Dairy Board.

Thu, 15 Nov, 2012

‘Catalyst for change’ dairy board finance director to step down

The Irish Dairy Board’s finance director Cathal Fitzgerald intends to leave the organisation by the end of the year.

Thu, 27 Sep, 2012

IFA calls on co-ops to support their farmers to help overcome problems

Bad weather, price cuts, and fodder shortages have all combined to shatter confidence among the farming community, according to the IFA.

Thu, 09 Aug, 2012

Dairy Board increases UK market slice with Cheese Warehouse deal

The Irish Dairy Board (IDB) has bought the Cheese Warehouse, a British-based cheese ingredients company.

Thu, 12 Jul, 2012

Irish Dairy Board agrees to sell Belgian cheese-packing operation

The Irish Dairy Board has agreed to sell its Belgian continental cheese-packing operation, IDB Belgium, to the Dutch agri co-op Royal FrieslandCampina.

Tue, 12 Jun, 2012

Kerrygold bids to grow market share in China

The Irish Dairy Board has launched Kerrygold UHT Milk in the Chinese market as part of a plan to extend the Kerrygold product range in the growing market.

Tue, 17 Apr, 2012

Kerrygold enjoys record year in US with 17% rise in year-on-year sales

PRELIMINARY sales data indicates that 2011 is likely to have been a record year for the Kerrygold brand in the US with year-on-year sales up 17% on a constant currency basis.

Thu, 12 Jan, 2012

Irish Dairy Board opens €12.7m ingredients plant in Britain

THE Irish Dairy Board (IDB) yesterday opened the new Adams Food Ingredients (AFI) manufacturing centre in Leek, Staffordshire, England.

Sat, 15 Oct, 2011

Irish Dairy Board opens plant in Algeria to boost North African sales

KERRYGOLD milk powder products may record a 4,000 tonnes sales boost with the opening yesterday of an Irish Dairy Board (IDB) premises in Oran, Algeria.

Tue, 27 Sep, 2011

Innovation centre targets growth in dairy and cheese exports

ICONIC brand Kerrygold will be the template for a suite of new cheese and dairy products to be developed for export at the Dairy Innovation Centre, launched at Teagasc Moorepark, in Fermoy, Co Cork, yesterday.

Sat, 09 Jul, 2011

Dairy Innovation Centre to roll out range of products for export market

NEW dairy products will be developed at a facility to be launched by the Irish Dairy Board (IDB) and Teagasc on Friday.

Tue, 05 Jul, 2011

Dairy Board chief criticises banks for failing to support agriculture

IRISH banks have been lashed for failing to support agriculture — “the best growth story in the Irish economy” — by Irish Dairy Board chief executive Kevin Lane.

Thu, 07 Apr, 2011

Partnerships with overseas co-ops likely to figure in IDB five-year plan

PARTNERSHIPS with giant overseas co-ops and the sale of under-performing subsidiaries are likely to figure in a new five-year strategy document which the Irish Dairy Board (IDB) is expected to publish in March.

Thu, 10 Feb, 2011

Ending of milk quotas to provide opportunity to be global dairy power

IRELAND is ideally poised to become a global dairy power with the ending of milk quotas in 2015, according to Irish Dairy Board (IDB) chief executive Kevin Lane.

Sat, 27 Nov, 2010

Galway farming couple takes top prize at Dairy Farmer of Year awards

GALWAY farmers Noel and Bernadette O’Toole have won the overall prize at the inaugural Irish Dairy Board (IDB) Dairy Farmer of the Year awards.

Thu, 25 Nov, 2010

ICOS president tells members ‘price will make your quota in future’

MILK quotas are gone, and there’s nothing to be gained from living in the past, according to Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (ICOS) president Pat McLoughlin.

Tue, 26 Oct, 2010

Dairy Board in expansion drive

THE Irish Dairy Board (IDB) is about to embark on an ambitious expansion drive in overseas markets, according to its chief executive Kevin Lane.

Mon, 25 Oct, 2010

Dairy board to consider marketing collaboration with overseas bodies

THE Irish Dairy Board (IDB) will consider marketing collaborations with a number of overseas representative dairy bodies at private meetings scheduled during next month’s global milk conference in New Zealand, says its chief executive Kevin Lane.

Fri, 22 Oct, 2010

Irish co-ops ‘do not have resources to expand in line with state targets’

IRISH co-ops do not have the money to expand the country’s milk processing capacity in line with the Government’s stated mid-term target of a 50% productivity increase, according to the Irish Co-operative Organisation Society Ltd (ICOS).

Thu, 14 Oct, 2010