Supply Chain

Shell Vows Spending Discipline Even As 2018 Profits Soar

Royal Dutch Shell vowed to stick to spending discipline this year even as 2018 profits jumped by more than a third to their highest since 2014 at $21.4 bil...

Glanbia Is Stockpiling Food In The UK To Prepare For No Deal Brexit

Glanbia revealed to the Irish Times that the group will be stockpiling products in Britain as one of its contingency plans for a no-deal Brexit. Speakin...

Small Irish Food And Drinks Groups Optimistic About Future Development

Minister of State for Food, Forestry and Horticulture, Andrew Doyle, revealed that Ireland’s small food and drink businesses are optimistic about fut...

Glanbia Enters Strategic Partnership With Dutch Dairy Group Royal A-Ware

Glanbia has announced that it has entered a strategic partnership with Royal A-ware, a leading global cheese and dairy producer in The Netherlands. The...

IFA Met With EU Commissioner Hogan Over No Deal Support

The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) met EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan in Brussels last week to discuss the possible consequences of a ‘no de...

Many Coffee Species Threatened With Extinction, Scientists Warn

Climate change and deforestation are putting more than half the world's wild coffee species at risk of extinction, including the popular commercial coffees...

IFA Welcomes Glanbia, A-ware Partnership, Must Add Value To Farmers

The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) has welcomed the partnership investment being made by Glanbia with Royal A-ware, but has called for it to add value for...

No Deal Brexit Could Result In Food Shortages And Higher Prices

The latest Central Bank Quarterly Bulletin has warned that Irish consumers could see potential shortages of some types of food in addition to paying more f...