Kerry Group PLC is a large supplier, operating in the food and beverages industry. Kerry Group supplies over 15000 food products ranging from ingredients and flavours, to beverages and consumer products to over 140 countries in the world. This encorporates manufacturing plants in over 23 countries and sales offices ina further 20 countries. The company currently employs over 220,000 employees across the globe. In 1986 Kerry Group PLC was launched as a public company and was released on the Dublin and London stock markets. It now has a current market capitalisation of over €4 billion and with a cash. The current CEO of Kerry group PLC is Stan Mc Carthy, who since his appointment to the position on 1 January 2008 has helped streamline and grow Kerry group PLC to a globally dynamic organization with increased effincies and commitments to innovation through increased investment in R&D.
The company has a defined structure, segmenting different elements to specific regions and with a very experienced and comprehensive leadership. (see below)
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REVENUE GENERATION AND MARGINS
Kerry Group is the world leader in Flavours and Ingredients. The group develops and delivers innovative new ingredients flavours and derives specialized solutions for the food and beverage industries.
In the domestic market (Ireland and the UK) Kerry group is the leading supplier of customer branded goods and offerings in its chosen categories.
In this diagram we see how Kerry Group is a leader in the Food and Beverage industry, (left column), and The leader in added value fridge food.(see right column).
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Kerry group estimate that the added value chilled market within Ireland and the UK is approximately €18 billion out of an industry total of €90 billion. Kerry Group have strived to increase their share in this market and maintain market leadership this