DuPontagreed Sunday evening to buy Danisco, a Danish specialty food ingredients maker, for $5.8 billion in cash, marking the biggest deal by the chemical company in years.
There are 50 Irish businesses listed on the London Stock Exchange, including packaging giant Smurfit Kappa, food ingredients maker Kerry Group and bookmakers Paddy Power, while one of Ireland's most famous exports, Guinness, is owned by British drinks firm Diageo.
In April Cargill completed the largest acquisition in its history, buying Cerestar, a French ingredient maker, for $1.1 billion.
The two countries also compete to make pharmaceuticals and ingredients for drug makers, and both are vying to become a center for low-cost research and development centers for global corporations.
The company supplies active ingredients to international drug makers — in particular the makers of generic drugs.
Hot chocolate, the quintessential winter quaff, deserves the best ingredients and a knowledgeable maker.
His father, Frank Stynes of Long Beach, Calif., is the senior vice president for ingredients at Ventura Foods, a maker of cooking oils, sauces and soups in Brea, Calif.
Kerry, which is based in Tralee, is transforming itself from a dairy cooperative to a maker of ingredients and flavorings for food and drinks.
WHEN sacked workers at Ghelco, a bankrupt maker of ingredients for ice cream, discovered earlier this year that the firm's owners were selling its assets, they put up a tent and started camping outside their former workplace in protest.
Rhodia, the biggest maker of ingredients in aspirin, expects to start the offer by Aug. 4. Chirex, which had revenue of $147 million last year, provides advanced product development services and manufacturing to the pharmaceutical industry.
