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Kerry Group is a public food company headquartered in Ireland. It is quoted on the Dublin ISEQ and London stock exchanges.〔(Investor FAQs )〕 == History == Kerry started as a private company with three shareholders – state-owned Dairy Disposal Company, a Federation of eight small farmer co-operatives in Kerry and Erie Casein Company Inc. from the US. They committed to invest approximately €200,000 to finance a €1 million dairy processing facility in Listowel, County Kerry, for the manufacture of milk protein casein for export to the US. Ownership of the company, then known as North Kerry Milk Products Ltd was shared with the Dairy Disposal Company holding 42.5%, the Federation 42.5% and Erie Casein 15%. The linkage to Illinois-based Erie Casein provided a guaranteed market for the edible casein output, which was a relatively new dairy product for Ireland. In its first year NKMP processed 16 million gallons of skimmed milk to produce 2,000 tonnes of casein with a workforce of about 40 people and reported profits of €127,000 on a turnover of €1.3 million. Today, with operations in 24 countries across five continents, European markets account for 57% of sales, American markets 31% and sales to Asia Pacific markets represent 12% of sales. Kerry Group is quoted on the Dublin and London stock exchanges, with a market capitalisation in excess of €7 billion and some 30,000 shareholders. Kerry started as a private dairy processor, evolved into a dairy co-operative, and then a public company. == Operations == Headquartered in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland, the Group employs about 36,000 people in its manufacturing, sales and technical centres worldwide.〔(Group profile )〕 Kerry supplies over 15,000 food, food ingredients and flavour products to customers in more than 140 countries worldwide. The Group has manufacturing facilities in 23 different countries and sales offices in 20 other countries.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kerry Group」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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