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Glanbia Glanbia has sold its Glanbia Meats pigmeat operations in Ireland to a management team operating under the name of Rosderra Irish Meats Group for £27m. 04-Mar-2008 Glanbia has acquired Seltzer Companies, the US supplier of speciality ingredients to the nutritional supplements market, for £56m. 07-Sep-2006 Glanbia is to acquire the CMP liquid milk and cream processing business of Dairygold Co-operative Society for £6.9m. 03-Feb-2005 Glanbia has acquired Kortus Food Ingredients Services of Germany for £10m. 08-Dec-2004 Glanbia is selling its UK cheese operations to Cheese Company Holdings, a new joint venture company set up by Milk Link and Glanbia, for £80m. 24-Feb-2004 Glanbia has sold its pork butchery and abattoir operations in Tipton and West Bromwich to Flagship Foods for £8m, while its smaller abattoir in Gainsborough will be closed. 08-Jul-2003 Glanbia Cheese is investing £12m at its pizza cheese manufacturing plant in Magheralin, Northern Ireland, with the creation of 16 jobs. 18-Apr-2003 Glanbia is planning to close its meat processing plant in Drongan, East Ayrshire, in the summer, with the loss of 120 jobs. 01-Apr-2003 Glanbia is seeking acquisitions to expand its food manufacturing business, and is particularly interested in areas such as nutritional ingredients. 06-Mar-2003 Glanbia is to sell its UK foodservice distribution business to Peter's Food Service for undisclosed terms, which will involve the transfer of 500 staff at a central facility in Tamworth and eight regional depots. 23-Jul-2002 Glanbia is to close its UK sliced cooked meats business, with the loss of 717 jobs at plants in Bradford and Milton Keynes. 14-May-2002 Glanbia has formed a joint venture with Leprino Foods of the US to target the European pizza cheese market, and they will operate two facilities in Magheralin, Co Armagh and Llangeffni in Wales. 16-Aug-2000 Glanbia has completed the reorganisation of its Irish and UK divisions into separate units, in order to improve the market focus of its dairy and food products business. 23-Dec-1999 Glanbia is planning to expand its pigmeat processing plant in West Bromwich, using funds generated by the sale of its milk operations. 05-Jun-1999 Express Dairies is to acquire Glanbia's UK milk operations for £100m, which will give it an extra five plants and 2,000 employees. 02-Jun-1999 Avonmore Waterford, the Irish dairy concern, is planning to change its name to Glanbia in order to have a single corporate identity for all of the recently-merged Avonmore and Waterford businesses. 20-Jan-1999 The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. Click here for further details Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2009