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Ornua unveils €40m expansion at Kerrygold Park in Cork

New facility will create 30 jobs and increase production to up to 1 million packs of butter per day

Kerrygold, which is sold in 110 countries around the world, is now the number two butter brand in the USA

Ornua, the owner of Kerrygold, has announced a new €40 million development at Kerrygold Park, its flagship butter production facility in Cork, which will underpin the group’s ambitions plans to become Ireland’s first €2 billion food brand.

The investment in the Mitchelstown facility - which has received funding support through Enterprise Ireland - has seen processing capacity “grow significantly”, enabling increased production of up to 1 million packs of butter per day - or 80,000 ...