Carbery Group, the West Cork-based ingredients, flavours, and cheese producer, has appointed John O’Brien, the current Chair of Barryroe Co-op and current Vice-Chair of Carbery Group, as Chair of the company.<\/p>\n
Mr O’Brien succeeds Vincent O’Donovan, who has completed a two-year term.<\/p>\n
A full-time dairy farmer from Barryroe, Mr O’Brien was first elected to the Board of Barryroe Co-op in 1988 and has worked in the co-op in a range of board and leadership roles, including as Chair from 2007 to 2014 and in his current term as Chair.<\/p>\n
He has also served on the Carbery Group Board on several occasions, including a previous term as Chair, and was a member of the Board of Ornua from 2010 to 2014.<\/p>\n
He has completed corporate governance programmes at UCC and DCU and served as President of the Irish Grassland Association in 2002\/03 and at local, county and national executive level of Macra na Feirme.<\/p>\n
John O’Brien said that Carbery is a business with strong co-operative roots in West Cork and a growing international presence across dairy, nutrition and taste.<\/p>\n
“The Board’s responsibility is to ensure that the business remains strong, resilient and focused on long-term value for our farmer shareholders, while continuing to serve customers, support our people and invest for future growth,” the new chairman said.<\/p>\n
“My priorities will include supporting a leading milk price, helping to secure the future of family farming in West Cork, and ensuring Carbery continues to grow through innovation, sustainability and disciplined investment,” he added.<\/p>\n
Carbery Group reported revenues of \u20ac723m last year, with strong underlying performance across its Dairy, Nutrition and Taste divisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carbery Group, the West Cork-based ingredients, flavours, and cheese producer, has appointed John O’Brien, the current Chair of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-559205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}