The Irish Times

Moy Park suspends live chicken processing at Ballymena plant

Chicken processor is Northern Ireland’s largest private sector employer

Mon Jan 17 2022 - 18:35

Moy Park spent £12m on Covid-related costs last year

Company records 15.3% rise in operating profits despite coronavirus pandemic

Thu Sept 30 2021 - 14:43

Inside a Covid-19 outbreak at a meat plant: ‘It is a miracle he is alive’

A dozen meat processing factories and up to 600 workers have been infected by virus

Sat May 16 2020 - 01:00

Coronavirus: NI residents urged to follow ‘simple’ advice as death toll rises to seven

Chief medical officer warns rate of pandemic related fatalities will rise in the weeks ahead

Wed Mar 25 2020 - 17:34

Poultry farmer feels he is a scapegoat of the failed RHI scheme

He now owes £51,000, which includes £23,000 for a gas-fuelled heating system

Fri Mar 13 2020 - 01:00

Entrepreneur of the Year says farming and food could be a solution to climate change

Friday interview: Richard Kennedy, chief executive of Devenish

Fri Nov 29 2019 - 05:59

Former Wrightbus workers ‘angry’ at donations to evangelical church

Cornerstone gave over £16m to local church in the years before mass redundancies

Sat Sept 28 2019 - 05:00

‘We are an archetype of the modern European utility’

CEO Ian Thom on how Energia Group is poised to invest €3bn over next half decade

Fri Jul 05 2019 - 05:00

Over 3,000 Moy Park workers in North may strike in pay dispute

Trade union to ballot poultry firm employees over ‘unreasonable management demands’

Tue Apr 16 2019 - 15:24

Ulster Farmers’ Union slams Moy Park temporary closure

Group claims there is a ‘real risk that some farmers will have to close their business’

Thu Apr 04 2019 - 19:33

Fears for 400 jobs in North as Moy Park closes production line

Poultry producer will ‘temporarily’ stop processing live birds at its Ballymena plant

Wed Apr 03 2019 - 19:33

Bordering on Brexit: what those at the coalface think

On a busy day farmer Joe Parker might cross the Border 10 or 11 times, ferrying machinery and feed between his animals North and South

Fri Dec 21 2018 - 05:40

‘Clean meat’ coming to a supermarket shelf near you, but when?

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

Thu Oct 11 2018 - 00:14

Chicken producer Moy Park delivers record sales and profits

North’s largest firm set to deliver $50 million in savings after acquisition by Pilgrim’s Pride

Mon Sept 17 2018 - 16:22

Ex-DUP adviser accused of making ‘sales pitch’ for chicken firm

Andrew Crawford removed reference linking poultry industry to ‘cash for ash’ overspend, inquiry told

Fri Sept 14 2018 - 16:22

Relatives of Arlene Foster adviser had 11 boilers in RHI scheme

Ex-aide says DUP wants to blame him for the programme as he comes before inquiry

Thu Sept 13 2018 - 15:51

Lobby groups make fizz while hot air swirls

Cantillon: Reality check needed to take the fizz out of hot air rumour

Sat Jun 23 2018 - 05:50

Cash for ash: Fallout will not end with politicians

RHI inquiry exposes DUP and NI’s civil service view of London money as fair game

Sat Jun 23 2018 - 05:00

Potential for 25,000 new pharma jobs, US-China trade deal, and Titanic tourism

Business Today: the best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

Mon May 21 2018 - 06:53

Moy Park strike averted as 4% pay deal agreed

Accord triggered after hundreds of workers walked out of chicken plants

Mon May 21 2018 - 04:25

Union warns of strike ballot at Moy Park

Poultry meat producer employs more than 9,500 across three sites in the North

Tue May 15 2018 - 20:22

Belfast services group Mount Charles secures €8m in new contracts in Republic

The Abbey Theatre and the Customs House in Dublin among new business secured by Northern Ireland company

Mon Apr 30 2018 - 05:45

What's really in your supermarket chicken Kiev?

Some supermarket varieties contain up to 40 unsavoury ingredients

Tue Apr 24 2018 - 06:01

Tayto and TGI Friday’s among firms named, shamed and fined in UK

Wagamama and Moy Park also among 179 businesses fined £1.3m and forced to repay £1.1 m to workers for breaches of minimum wage rates

Fri Mar 09 2018 - 11:56

Moy Park’s US owner warn over post-Brexit trade deal

Firm says its operation ‘may be adversely affected’ unless terms are as ‘favourable as those currently enjoyed

Tue Feb 20 2018 - 12:14

Kepak buys spice burger factory in fourth acquisition of the year

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

Mon Dec 04 2017 - 05:24

Just one in four victims compensated in tracker mortgage scandal

Business Today: The best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk

Wed Oct 18 2017 - 07:00

Irish executive at Brazilian meat giant JBS targeted by regulator

Regulator alleges Jeremiah O’Callaghan failed to question JBS managers about plea bargain

Wed Oct 18 2017 - 06:09

‘Peep show’ Frenchman Xavier Niel makes surprise move on Eir

Niel learned the art of computer programming as a teenager in the 1980s

Sat Sept 16 2017 - 06:15

Applegreen profits, bad day for Providence and household debt

Business Today: the best news and analysis from The Irish Times business desk

Tue Sept 12 2017 - 16:57

Moy Park sold to US firm Pilgrim’s Pride for $1bn

Scandal-hit Brazilian brothers behind sellers JBS are shedding assets to pay for legal woes

Mon Sept 11 2017 - 17:41

Moy Park has had many owners in its 74-year history

More than 6,400 employees of its 12,000 global workforce are based in the North

Mon Sept 11 2017 - 17:37

Farmers and sports clubs count the costs of Tyrone flooding

Two poultry farmers lose 5,000 chickens and several football clubs suffer damage

Thu Aug 24 2017 - 22:17

Chinese group New Hope emerges as likely buyer of Moy Park

The poultry processor was put up for sale with a rumoured $1.3 billion price tag

Wed Aug 23 2017 - 05:28