Food hub to create up to 2,000 local jobs

Kerry Group is to establish one of the world’s most advanced food innovation facilities in Co Kildare and in the process create up to 2,000 jobs in the local economy.

The food giant is to spend €100m on the Kerry Global Technology and Innovation Centre, which will be built at the Millennium Business Park in Naas and which will employ 800 people by 2015. The company says a further 100 positions will be created by the time the plant is fully commissioned in mid-2016.

Subject to planning, construction will start in early 2013.