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Kerry Group 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 The information above comes from the UK Activity Report Copyright UK Business Park 1995-2007