Kerry Group
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| Type | Public, ISEQ & LSE |
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| Founded | Listowel, Ireland (1972) |
| Headquarters | Tralee, Ireland |
| Key people | Stan McCarthy - Group CEO Denis Cregan Deputy Group CEO Flor Healy - CEO of Kerry Foods Gerry Behan - President & CEO of Kerry Ingredients North America Brian Mehigan Group CFO |
| Products | Food Ingredients and Flavours Cheese and cheese snacks Ready meal Sausages Cooked Meats Dairy Spreads Water and juices |
| Employees | 23,000 |
| Website | [1] |
Kerry Group LSE: KYGa, is a major quoted food company headquartered in Ireland. It is quoted on the Dublin ISEQ and London stock exchanges. It evolved initially from a local dairy co-op in the Munster region of Ireland. However, after floating on the stock exchange in 1986, the group has grown substantially into the world's leading food ingredients supplier and is also a leading consumer foods supplier in the UK and Irish markets.
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[edit] Overview
Headquartered in Tralee, Ireland, the Group employs some 23,000 people throughout its manufacturing, sales and technical centres across Europe, North America, South America, Australia, New Zealand and Asian Markets.
Kerry supplies over 10,000 food, food ingredients and flavour products to customers in more than 120 countries worldwide. The Group has manufacturing facilities in 18 different countries and international sales offices in 20 other countries across the globe. The groups current market capitalisation is about €3.7 billion and the companies current annualised sales are in excess of €4.5 billion.
[edit] Business Structure
Kerry Group has its headquarters in Tralee in County Kerry in Ireland. The Group is divided into several divisions:
- Ingredients incorporating Culinary, Flavours and Bio-Science
- Consumer Foods
- Agribusiness and Dairies
[edit] Kerry Ingredients
Producing ingredients used many different customers, the range runs from batter mixes, bread crumbs and other dry ingredients on into wet ingredients such as sauces, pastes, marinades and butter products. Individual customer requirements are handled, developed and matched by the highly skilled R&D teams to produce new innovative products which continue to move the market forward and introduce new and exciting flavours.
Recent projects include a £7m investment to create the Hartlepool production facility to further grow the market in formed butter and sauce products, specialy prepared and tailored vegetable products and stocks. Taking existing skills and knowledge from across the group it has been brought together onto one site where knowledge may be shared and new exciting products can be developed and passed onto the customers.
[edit] International Bases
Kerry Group's headquarters is based in Tralee, Ireland. The Group has consumer food production operations in Ireland and the United Kingdom and a major international ingredients business with manufacturing facilities in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China and Hong Kong, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, the Philippines, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the United States and New Zealand.
In addition, international sales offices have also been established in India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Singapore and South Africa.
The Foods headquarters is based in Egham, Surrey, in the UK. The Ingredients Americas headquarters is based in Beloit, Wisconsin; European in Bristol and Aylesbury, United Kingdom and Listowel, Ireland; Pacific in Sydney, Australia;
The Bio-Science division has its headquarters in Almere, in the Netherlands.
[edit] Key Brands
- Denny
- LowLow
- Golden Cow
- Coleraine
- h2
- Mattesons
- Kerry Spring Water
- Golden Olive
- Ballyfree
- Bowyers
- Cheestrings
- Wall's Sausages
- Richmond Sausages
- Fresh Ways
- Golden Vale
- Brunchettas
- Kerrymaid
- Charleville
- Porkinson
- Mr Brain's
- Green's
- Dawn
- Lawsons
- Easisingles
- Move Over Butter
- Homepride Flour
- DaVinci Gourmet
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Official Website
- Asia Pacific Website
- Kerry Ingredients Europe
- Kerry Sweet Ingredients Europe
- Kerry North America
- Kerry Foodservice
- Kerry Group Mexico
- Kerry Brazil
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