Kerry Group

Kerry Group, Plc
Type Public, ISEQ & LSE
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 www.kerrygroup.com

Kerry Group LSEKYGa, is a public 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 Irish and European market.

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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 19 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.

Business structure

Kerry Group has its headquarters in Tralee in County Kerry in Ireland. The Group is divided into several divisions:

Ingredients

Producing ingredients used by 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.

Recent projects include a 8,31€ (£7)m investment to create the Hartlepool production facility to further grow the market in formed butter and sauce products, specially prepared and tailored vegetable products and stocks.

International operations

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, Costa Rica, 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.

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