Food production companies are likely to face sustainability stress tests, with future global demand for food set to grow by 50% by 2030, according to management and technology consultancy BearingPoint.

THE Irish division of Bearing Point – the international IT and management consultancy formerly part of KPMG Management Consultants – is to form part of a near €70 million European-wide management buyout (MBO) of the company’s EMEA (European, Middle East and Africa) operations.