Ireland's Kerry group has continued its rapid expansion programme,
a new purchases in the US will see the group add a speciality sauce
maker and a fruit flavour producer to its fast-growing portfolio.
Irish food ingredient and dairy company Kerry continues to move
forward with the group reporting on Tuesday a 22 per cent leap in
2002 profits after tax to €189 million thanks to a strong
perfomance across all businesses.
A number of recent acquisitions by Irish food ingredients, flavours
and consumer foods group Kerry will help the group post 2002
results in line with market expectations.