Kerry Foods is planning to close its meat processing factory in Durham in July, with the loss of 346 jobs. [02-Apr-2012]
Kerry Foods has submitted plans to Shropshire Council to expand its food ingredients factory in Burford, with the creation of up to 60 jobs. [14-Feb-2012]
Kerry Foods is considering plans to close its ready meals factory at the Europarc in Grimsby, with the loss of up to 337 jobs. [06-Feb-2012]
Kerry Group is to acquire Cargill's global flavours division for £105m, including 40 staff at Trafford Park. [26-Sep-2011]
Kerry Group is to close its Denny pies factory in Portadown in April, with the loss of up to 94 jobs, in order to transfer production to Poole and Burton-on-Trent. [30-Jan-2009]
Kerry Foods is to create 75 jobs at its re-opened culinary ingredients factory in Hartlepool by the end of the year. [23-Jun-2008]
Kerry Foods has confirmed plans to close the ready meals production line at its factory in Durham with the loss of 65 jobs, but a further 95 staff will be redeployed in cooked meats and snack fillings. [26-Oct-2007]
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]
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]
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]
Global Group, the meat shipping concern, is buying Pin-It Pastry from Kerry Group for £0.5m. [16-Jul-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]