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Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year – Industry finalists

Caroline Keeling, Keelings

“It would have been great to win it for Ireland but it wasn’t to be,” said Edmond Harty Cantillon clan member’s can-do attitude

Cantillon: Edmond Harty was flying the flag for Ireland in Monaco last week

Jeffa Gill: “Decide on your target market, try your product on friends and family first and start small.” Inside Track: West Cork haven delivers success for Durrus

Jeffa Gill, founder, Durrus farmhouse cheese

Bears at a Guizhentang farm in Quanzhou, Fujian province, where the practice of bile farming has been criticised by animal rights activists. Photograph: China Foto Press via Getty Images Asia Briefing: Market bites back on IPO by bear bile company

US-based yoghurt maker Hamdi Ulukaya was chosen as the 2013 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year at a ceremony in Monaco. Photograph: Ken Lennox Turkish immigrant to US wins Entrepreneur of the Year award for Greek yoghurt business

Hamdi Ulukaya’s company Chobani rises to US brand leader in six years with sales of about $1 billion

Canada has charged two of the world’s biggest chocolate makers, Nestle and Mars, with colluding to fix the price of chocolate, the Canadian competition watchdog has said. Mars, Nestle charged over Canada chocolate price fixing

Companies to ‘vigorously defend’ themeselves against allegations

C&C Group chief executive Stephen Glancey pictured last year. (Photograph: Bryan O’Brien / THE IRISH TIMES) No bonuses for top management at C&C

Chief executive's pay package falls at drinks group

Lorraine, Joe and Pamela Fitzmaurice (right), in Blazing Salads, Drury Street, Dublin.Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Inside Track: Pamela Fitzmaurice, Blazing Salads

Blazing a trail in the world of wholefoods

Shuanghui International buys world’s biggest pork producer

Smithfield foods bought for €3.63 billion

At Richard Keenan and Co in Carlow were, from left: China’s vice-minister of agriculture, Zhang Taolin, chairman Gerard Keenan and Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan Chinese minister says Ireland leading ‘the whole world’ in agricultural science and technology

Keenan chairman says China-Ireland dairy research and technology centre to be set up

Dairymaster chief vies for World Entrepreneur of the Year

The Greencore sugar factory in Carlow, which closed when Ireland exited sugar production in 2006. Photograph: Alan Betson Beet lobby adamant sugar industry can be revived

Greencore boss’s dismissal of efforts to resume production rankles with sugar campaigners

Cap deal needs to support farming that helps nature

Ireland’s iconic farmland birds being lost as changes to farming pose threat to nature

Helping farmers to help themselves

Simon Coveney: policy will provide for a “vital, vibrant industry and healthy fishing stock” New EU fish policy practical and implementable, says Coveney

Discard ban and sustainable fishing cornerstones of new agreement

British chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall: it is thanks in part to his lobbying that EU maritime affairs commissioner Maria Damanaki made a ban on discards her priority Celebrity chefs and environmentalists helped sway fish debate

Forced discards of fish at sea one of Europe’s more bizarre regulations

China’s Shuanghui International has purchased Smithfield Foods Inc for $4.7 billion to feed a growing Chinese appetite for US pork. Photograph: Reuters China’s appetite for pork spurs $4.7 billion buyout of US company

Shuanghui’s purchase of world’s largest hog producer sparks concern among US politicians

Tough times for farmers

The former sugar factory in Carlow. Greencore chief executive Patrick Coveney said yesterday he believed the sugar industry would never be restarted in Ireland because it did not make financial sense. However, his view was rejected by Beet Ireland, a group of farmers who are advancing plans to resume sugar production as soon as beet quotas are abolished. Greencore head says there will never be an Irish sugar industry again

Survey finds most agri business leaders expect growth this year

Martin McLoughlin: "It’s my baby and I still love it. I don’t know what else I’d do." Inside Track: Nicky’s Plaice

Still hooked on fish business after all these years

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Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year – Industry finalists
Bears at a Guizhentang farm in Quanzhou, Fujian province, where the practice of bile farming has been criticised by animal rights activists. Photograph: China Foto Press via Getty Images Asia Briefing: Market bites back on IPO by bear bile company
US-based yoghurt maker Hamdi Ulukaya was chosen as the 2013 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year at a ceremony in Monaco. Photograph: Ken Lennox Turkish immigrant to US wins Entrepreneur of the Year award for Greek yoghurt business
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