Jim Bergin

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EU and Irish officials are exploring the possibility of carrying out “factory gate” customs checks. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
Agri firms raise concerns on no-deal Brexit plans to avoid hard border

Two of the State’s largest agri-food businesses have raised concerns about practical measures being considered for checks on food and animal health t(...)

Jan Anker, chief executive of Royal A-ware, and Jim Bergin, chief executive of Glanbia Ireland
Glanbia Ireland planning €140m cheese factory in Kilkenny

Glanbia Ireland plans to partner with a Dutch dairy producer to build a €140 million continental cheese-manufacturing facility in Co Kilkenny. The A(...)

Kerrygold is the second-best selling butter brand in the US, where it grew 21 per cent last year. Photograph: Clare Keogh
Ornua and Glanbia in row over launch of Kerrygold competitor

Serious tensions have emerged between Ornua, the farming co-op that owns Kerrygold, and listed dairy group Glanbia, which owns 25 per cent of Ornua, o(...)

The GII facility in Wexford.
Glanbia Ingredients Ireland plans €35m plant expansion

Glanbia Ingredients Ireland (GII) is planning a €35 million expansion of its Wexford cheese plant, proposing to double its milk processing capac(...)

Glanbia’s new nutritional ingredients plant at Belview, Co Kilkenny. Photograph: Eamonn Farrell/Photocall
Glanbia suppliers aiming to increase milk production by 63%

Jim Bergin likes to tell people he works with 4,800 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). He is chief executive of Glanbia Ingredients Ireland, (...)

Annie and Saoirse Power (both 9 months) from Kilkenny and Noah Connolly (14 months) from Waterford give lessons in feeding to Glanbia Ingredients Ireland chief executive Jim Bergin, Taoiseach Enda Kenny and EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan yesterday. Photograph: Jason Clarke
Babies are a hazard: just ask any politician at a photo op

History is littered with case studies which make a compelling case for why politicians should steer clear of small children. Google ‘George W B(...)

Glanbia Ingredients Ireland CEO Jim Bergin, Taoiseach Enda Kenny and EU Commissioner for Agriculture Phil Hogan giving bottles to Annie and Saoirse Power (9 months), and Noah Connolly (14 months) at the plant which will produce infant formula. Photograph: Jason Clarke Photography
Flagship Glanbia dairy facility opens in Kilkenny

Some 1,600 direct and indirect jobs will be created with today’s opening of Glanbia Ingredients Ireland’s €185 million dairy facility in Belview, i(...)

At the opening of Glanbia’s new milk protein plant in Virginia, Co Cavan, were Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Heather Humphreys; Glanbia chief executive Jim Bergin, Northern Ireland’s Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Investment Arlene Foster and Glanbia chairman Liam Herlihy
Glanbia opens €7.8m milk protein plant in Virginia, Co Cavan

A €7.8 million milk protein facility has been opened by Glanbia Ingredients Ireland in Virginia, Co Cavan. It will process milk from counties on both (...)

The deal, announced at the end of last year, would see Glanbia Ingredients Ireland buy 70 per cent of Wexford Creamery from farmer co-op Wexford Milk Producers.
Competition Authority to launch full investigation into Glanbia’s purchase of Wexford Creamery

The Competition Authority will launch a full inquiry into Glanbia’s proposed acquisition of Wexford Creamery. The deal, announced at the (...)