Troubled food giant Aryzta grapples with investor trust

Investors’ unease has been building for some time

Owen Killian, chief executive of Aryzta Picture: Tony OShea

It has been a sour couple of years for the once mighty food company Aryzta. Formed through the merger of IAWS - the owner of Cuisine de France - and Switzerland’s Hiestand in 2008, it created a food industry giant that now employs almost 19,000 people.

But Aryzta has been beaten up badly by investors - ...