Pork processor Karro Food Group has been sold by Endless LLP to private equity firm CapVest, after gaining approval by the Irish Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC).
2 Sisters Food Group has made two senior appointments to its UK poultry team – an operations director and a commercial director – as it “continues on its UK transformation plan”.
Animal rights protesters have picketed a food factory in Northern Ireland, in hope of raising awareness around what it claimed was “the cruelty of animal slaughter” involved in putting meat on supermarket shelves.
Pork processor Karro Food Group has posted an operating profit of £8M, for the year ending December 31 2014, representing an £11M improvement on the previous year and the firm’s first profit for many years.
Tulip has announced plans to cut up to 78 roles at its Tipton factory in the West Midlands days after rival pork processor Karro Food Group proposed 150 job cuts.
North Yorkshire-based pork supplier the Karro Food Group plans to step up investment in the UK and abroad, after agreeing a new £60M funding package with finance firm GE Capital.
