Richard Curran: Dawn Meats’ swoop on New Zealand food giant shows where Irish agri-sector should be going

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Dairy cows in New Zealand with Mount Taranaki in the background. Photo: Getty

The Dawn Meats swoop to take control of one of New Zealand’s largest meat processors represents a real opportunity for the Waterford group. But it also provides an insight into the future of the sector in Ireland.

Twenty years ago, the Irish food industry looked up to New Zealand as the ultimate producer/exporter that could feed nine times its population with products sold all over the world.

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