Kepak

Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed has said he is aware of six clusters at plants

Staff to be laid off or redeployed to other factories, company has said

Kerrygold owner seeks €9m damages as it joins Kepak and others in case

Money sent home by migrants provides a lifeline to some states and props up poor communities in many others

Caveat: Nobody needs a law to turn off their smartphone. We can all take action

Business Week: Also in the news was the budget; corporation tax; and the banks

Irish processor becomes first European meat firm to gain access to lucrative mince market

Minister for Justice updated at meeting with representatives of meat factories

Aontú deputy Peadar Tóibín had tried to make representations in Liffey Meats case

Picketing of meat plants enters second week as row over beef prices for farmers continues

Grassroots organisation has gone from 300 to 20,000 farmer members

Heather Humphreys says interdepartmental steering group will examine French approach to switching off

Move from meat processor comes as industry faced off against protesters

‘Government has no sense of how beef farmers’ euro filters through community’

Steak produced in Limerick from grass-fed Angus cross described as ‘picture perfect’

Farmers ‘don’t know which way to turn for money’ over below cost of production price

It’s beef all the way as National Burger Day voting 2019 gets under way

Major recruitment of customs officers needed to manage farm- or factory-gate checks

Runners-up explore mental health among farmers and rural communities

Political polarisation and economic uncertainty will impact but growth predicted

Simon Carswell takes a six-country delivery trip with a trucker to assess the road ahead

Irish companies of all sizes, and across a variety of sectors, are already succeeding in China. We catch up with four to find out about their activities there

‘Lab meat’ will sit ‘somewhere between low-cost hamburgers and high-end cuts’

Weak sterling is a major concern for Irish companies exporting goods and services to the UK

Social media giant building massive complex entirely fuelled by renewable energy

Roomex has 70% of its business in the UK and wants to move into other European markets

Labour Court awarded €7,500 to woman who had to check emails as late as midnight

Workers are entitled to 11 hours of rest every 24 hours

Kepak employee says she worked close to 60 hours a week, handling emails after midnight

Irish meat group acquires red meat operations of UK food group 2 Sisters

Marcin Skrzypezyk and Tomasz Wasowicz accused of killing Ludovit Pasztor last year

Minister for Agriculture meets Chinese counterpart on first day of trade mission

Siptu condemns move but Dawn Meats insists arrangements in line with sector norms

Healthcare, food and agri, financial services and the industrial sectors led the way for Irish M&A in 2017

Meat processing group employs 2,800 people and has annual turnover of about €950m

Certain sectors such as construction, financial services and technology could make significant gains

Move part of a wider initiative by UK grocery chain involving 24 global food suppliers

Ludovit Pasztor died of brain injury after incident at filling station in Fermoy, Co Cork

Chinese delegation to visit eight Irish meat plants this week

Move is designed to capitalise on shortage of hotel stock in Dublin city