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Kerry Group

Kerry Group plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides taste and nutrition solutions. The company offers taste solutions, such as dairy and dairy-free flavours, savoury flavours and extracts, smoke and grill, sweet flavours and extracts, and taste modulations. It also provides nutrition solutions, including enzymes, proteins, nutritional lipids and bases, soluble dietary fibre, wellness and health, and dairy ingredients. In addition, the company offers functional ingredients, food solutions, and beverage solutions. Further, it provides pharmaceutical excipients, tablet film coatings, pharma lactose, cell culture supplements, fermentation, and acetates solutions. Additionally, the company offers emulsifier ingredients for bakery; food protection and preservation solutions; food reformulation solutions; bakery freshness solutions; texturant solutions; and foodservice solutions that include convenience retail and custom solutions under DaVinci Gourmet, Golden Dipt, Big Train, and Island Oasis brands. The company also engages in the investment and trading activities, as well as provides services. It serves food, beverage, supplement, pharma and life science, and pet markets. The company operates in Europe, the Americas, the Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa. It provides its products through retail and foodservice channels. Kerry Group plc was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Tralee, Ireland.

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Kerry Group H1 profit falls but maintains full-year adjusted EPS guidance

Kerry Group reported a decline in first-half profit after tax to 282.6 million euros from 303.1 million euros a year earlier, while maintaining its full-year constant currency adjusted earnings per share guidance. Revenue slipped 3.7% to 3.34 billion euros, though volume growth reached 3.3%. Adjusted EPS rose 2.3% to 214.1 cents, or 7.9% on a constant currency basis. The company also set medium-term targets through 2030, aiming for high-single-digit plus adjusted EPS constant currency growth, volume growth of 3% to 5%, and an EBITDA margin of 20% to 21%.
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AI Disrupts $1 Billion Confectionery Ingredients Market as Food Giants Deploy Machine Learning

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the global confectionery ingredients sector, with major food manufacturers accelerating investments in AI-powered formulation platforms, predictive analytics, and quality control systems. Barry Callebaut partnered with NotCo AI to incorporate artificial intelligence into chocolate manufacturing and recipe development, while Mars is leveraging AI platforms through its MARI partnership with PIPA to identify novel bioactive, plant-based compounds. Kerry Group established a Digital Center of Excellence backed by an $8.9 million grant for AI-driven business performance optimization. Olam International collaborated with SAP to implement AI-enhanced supply chain solutions on AWS, addressing ingredient traceability and environmental monitoring. Givaudan invested in AI-based tool ATOM for optimized food and flavor formulation, and Symrise created the Symvision AI trend-prediction platform using deep learning and multisource data analysis. Growing consumer demand for sustainable, clean-label products is driving AI adoption to accelerate development of plant-based and personalized chocolate options, though high technology investment costs and limited data availability constrain implementation beyond early adopters.
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