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Kerry Foods is to shed up to 170 of the 540 jobs at its chilled foods factory in Durham over the next few months. 01-Jun-2007
Kerry Foods is to shed 320 jobs at its ready meals factory in Hartlepool by May, and just 30 staff will be retained. 10-Mar-2006
Kerry Group has acquired Noon Products, the ready meals manufacturer, from WT Foods for about £125m. 08-Aug-2005
Kerry Foods Direct To Store is to set up a 60,000 sq ft frozen foods distribution centre on the Dorcan estate in Swindon, with the creation of more than 100 jobs. 11-Jun-2004
Kerry Group has acquired four flavour companies for a total £113m, including Manheimer and Flavurence of the US, Laboratorios Krauss of Mexico and Fructamine of Italy. 11-May-2004
Kerry Foods is to shed 70 of the 250 jobs at the former Hibernia Foods ready meals factory in Hartlepool. 24-Mar-2004
ICI is to sell the food ingredients business of Quest International, which is based in the Netherlands and employs 900 staff, to Kerry Foods of Ireland for £238m. 03-Mar-2004
Kerry Group is to create up to 40 new jobs at its Rye Valley frozen meals factory in Fermanagh. 31-Dec-2003
Kerry Group has acquired two US food ingredients suppliers for £37m - Da Vinci Gourmet of Seattle and Crystals International of Florida. 14-Oct-2003
Kerry Group has acquired the Sunderland-based sauces and flavoured butters division of Voyager Foods. 08-Oct-2001
Golden Vale, the Irish dairy company, has received a £135m takeover offer from Kerry Group. 13-Jun-2001
Kerry Foods is to shed 25 of the 600 jobs at its factory in Poole, in order to transfer sausage production to its Manchester site and centralise its distribution operation in Milton Keynes. 26-Apr-2001
Kerry Group is to close its Kingsway Fresh Foods factory in Belfast over the next two months, and many of the 80 staff will be transferred to the Denny meat products factory in Portadown. 22-Jan-2001
Kerry has made a takeover approach for Bush Boake Allen, the US food ingredients company, and has also announced the acquisition of Harald-Industria e Comercio de Alimentos of Brazil and a US chocolate coating company owned by York Dragee. 31-Aug-2000
Kerry Group has sold its DCA bakery business in the US and Canada to Pillsbury, the Diageo subsidiary, for £62m. 18-Feb-2000
Kerry Group is acquiring two food ingredients businesses from Andre of Switzerland for £50m - Shade Foods in the US and Speciality Food Ingredients in Europe. 01-Oct-1999
Kerry is seeking acquisitions to expand its food business in continental Europe. 10-Mar-1999
Kerry has opened a new £2m ready meals facility at its Durham factory to supply Somerfield, and an additional 130 jobs could be created over the next two years as further convenience foods are introduced. 11-Dec-1998
Tomkins has been ordered by the government to sell four of the six mills it acquired from Kerry Group in March, due to concerns over the impact of the acquisition on flour and bread prices. 25-Sep-1998
Global Group, the meat shipping concern, is buying Pin-It Pastry from Kerry Group for £0.5m. 16-Jul-1998
Tomkins' £92m bid to acquire the Spillers milling business from Kerry has been referred to the Monopolies & Mergers Commission due to concerns over the impact on competition in the flour market. 23-Apr-1998
Dalgety has won shareholder approval for the £335m sale of its food ingredients business to Kerry and the £715m sale of its pet foods business to Nestle. 17-Mar-1998
Dalgety is selling its food ingredients and Spillers flour milling operations to Kerry Group of Ireland for £335m, and its wheat processing research activities to DuPont for £24m. 27-Jan-1998
Kerry Group of Ireland has acquired SDF Foods, the Malaysian food ingredients processing company, for about £6m. 06-Nov-1997
Kerry Group's managing director is to seek board approval to change the share structure to reduce the stake held by Irish dairy farmers from 52% to 20%, thus allowing the farmers to realise some of their investment. 06-Mar-1996
Kerry Group has bought Ciprial, the French maker of fruit-based food ingredients, for £52m. 27-Jan-1996
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