The Pratt family behind the Avoca chain of luxury retail outlets and cafés have agreed to sell US catering group Aramark for a price rumoured to be upwards of €60
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The Hogan family, which owns 50 percent of catering services company Kylemore Services Group (KSG), has made a €6.54m offer to Irish distribution group DCC to acquire its 50 percent
Glanbia is in advanced discussions about a $140m project to expand cheese and whey production at its New Mexico plant. The expansion,with its joint venture partner South West Cheese, will take
Global restaurant and boulangerie, Le Pain Quotidien, opens the doors of it’s first Irish location today. The launch today in Kildare Village represents the beginning of a wider expansion in
Largo Foods founder Ray Coyle has this week agreed to sell his final shareholding in the company he established 33 years ago. The successful business man will sell his 25
Pernod Ricard, the French spirits group expects it’s sales to gradually improve this year in its main markets of Europe and the US. The group, which is the second biggest
The National Sustainability Summit will take place for the first time on 3 November in the Aviva Stadium, Dublin. The event will provide a timely platform to discuss and debate
The European Union is demanding that U.S. coffee chain Starbucks and carmaker Fiat repay up to 30 million euros each in tax breaks they received from EU nations, in a
The coffee giant is planning to break the norm at it’s new store in London. The store near Covent Garden will be a new Star Reserve store which will cater
Chief executive Emmet O’Neill told RTE’s Morning Ireland that the company was “playing with those ideas at the moment”. “Where we do have sites that are small forecourts, often what
Kerry Group has spent $735m (€646m) on three US acquisitions, with chief executive Stan McCarthy saying the businesses provided the company with “tremendous growth opportunities”. The group is buying Wisconsin-based
Food giant Nestle today lowered its full-year outlook as a Maggi noodle scandal continued to drag down third-quarter sales. The world’s largest packaged food company’s sales dropped 2.1% to 64.9
With Android phones becoming so commonplace, so what if they are compared to sugar water? In fact, Pepsi appears to have gone full hog and licensed its trademark for use
Anheuser-Busch InBev has agreed in principle to buy SABMiller for approximately £68 billion or €92 billion, raising its bid after several rejections to clinch a record deal within the industry.
C&C shareholders are pushing for a strategic overhaul of the company following a sequence of earnings downgrades, a profit warning and a massive writedown in the value of its US
A dream to bring pure pot still Irish whiskey back to the West of Ireland after an absence of over 100 years took its first official step when The Connacht
Cork retail group Musgrave – the owner of the SuperValu and Centra brands – has signed a deal with New Zealand wine maker Invivo, in which Irish comedian Graham Norton
Researchers at the APC Microbiome Institute in University College Cork and University of Naples Federico II have shown that a Mediterranean diet rich in fruit and vegetables is linked to
Tesco has seen sales at its Irish supermarkets grow for the first time in more than two years although the increase is modest at best despite back to school shoppers
Swiss-Irish food group Aryzta said on Monday that revenues in the year to July 31st 2015 rose by 12.6 per cent to € 3.8bn. Across Europe, revenues increased 3.8 per
Aryzta has announced plans to sell its remaining stock in Irish agri-services group Origin Enterprises. The Swiss-based food group said it will sell more than 36 million shares in Origin, representing
Adverse exchange rate movements will hit Diageo’s full-year operating profit, the drinks group said, reducing it by up to £150 million (€206 million). That figure was more than previously expected.
Investec & Irish Exporters Association: FDI companies dominate Ireland’s export industry -Investec Sponsored Irish Exporters Association Report shows significant growth in export sales with value of top five exporters increasing
Powerscourt distillery will create 18 full-time jobs with a craft distillery and visitor centre at the Powerscourt Estate, in Enniskerry,
Diageo is expected to name Oliver Loomes as its new country director of Ireland later this morning in place of
Total Produce, the fruit distributor spun out of Fyffes, has reported a first-half pre-tax profit that was up 11.5 per
The Danish manufacturer of material handling equipment, Logitrans A/S, now introduces a Reel Rotator! The perfect choice when transporting, lifting
More than 80 jobs are to be created in Co Louth with the opening of a new distillery and brewery
Donegal Investment Group has reported revenues which were down €500,000 in the first six months of the year as a
The company say that the new jobs have arisen largely from its ability to attract new industrial partnerships that were
The agreement will see Vayu supply Teeling Whiskey with natural gas and 100pc green electricity to meet its energy requirements
– Fujitsu continues to extend PRIMEFLEX line-up, the industry’s most-comprehensive Integrated Systems portfolio – Two new dedicated solutions for SAP®
Ibec, the group that represents Irish business, today said that despite disappointing preliminary growth figures for the third quarter, the
George Clooney and his favourite coffee are back – returning in the latest Nespresso advertising campaign. The new footage illustrates
According to Soft Drinks, a new Market Update from market intelligence provider Key Note, the total UK market for soft
450 delegates from food and drink businesses across the UK and Ireland attended the inaugural Sustainable Food & Beverage Manufacturing