Food and Drink Industry Ireland

News and Events

2010 press releases

Food sector launches Competitiveness Indicators Report 2010
29/11/2010 - Food and Drink Industry Ireland (FDII), a business sector in IBEC, today published its 2010 Competitiveness Indicators Report, which shows that the sector is on a recovery path after an extremely ...

Food Industry Calls for Direct Industry Involvement in Food Harvest 2020 Implementation
28/10/2010 - Direct industry involvement in implementing Food Harvest 2020 was the message given by Food and Drink Industry Ireland and Irish Dairy Industries Association when Minister Brendan Smith T.D., ...

Food industry reaction to salt reduction initiative update
22/09/2010 - Food and Drink Industry Ireland (FDII) said that today's Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) update on the progress of its voluntary salt reduction programme with the food industry shows that ...

GDAs Dispelling the €1bn lobbying myth
27/07/2010 - Recent media reports have suggested that the food industry spent a sum of €1 billion on lobbying to support its position in relation to the EU Food Information to Consumers regulation. Such reports ...

Dairy industry welcomes new strategy for agri food sector
19/07/2010 - The Irish Dairy Industries Association (IDIA), the IBEC group that represents dairy producers, today welcomed the launch of the 2020 Strategy Report by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and ...

Teagasc and Food and Drink Industry Ireland agree Joint Action Forum on Climate Change
23/06/2010 - Teagasc and Food and Drink Industry Ireland (FDII) the IBEC group that represents the food sector have agreed to set up a joint forum on Climate Change, to develop a common strategy to turn the ...

FDII welcomes EP support for GDA food labelling
17/06/2010 - Food and Drink Industry Ireland (FDII), the IBEC group that represents the Irish food sector, has welcomed today’s endorsement by MEPs for Guideline Daily Amount (GDA) food labelling in the first ...

Majority of food products now carry Guideline Daily Amount (GDA) labelling
14/06/2010 - A new survey by Food and Drink Industry Ireland (FDII), the IBEC group that represents the Irish food sector, has found that 78% of branded food products now carry Guideline Daily Amount (GDA) food ...

Minister urged to press ahead with Grocery Code
19/05/2010 - Food and Drink Industry Ireland (FDII), the IBEC group that represents the sector, today met the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation Batt O'Keeffe and urged him to press ahead with the ...

FDII calls on MEPs to support Guideline Daily Amount Food Labelling in European Parliament Vote
18/05/2010 - Food and Drink Industry Ireland (FDII), the IBEC group that represents the Irish food sector, today called on MEPs to support the inclusion of Guideline Daily Amounts (GDA) as part of new European ...

FDII publish submission on government's Food 2020 strategy
13/05/2010 - Food and Drink Industry Ireland, the IBEC group that represents the sector, today published its submission to the government '2020 Strategy' consultation on the future development of the ...

FDII welcomes appointment of John Travers as facilitator for grocery goods code
12/05/2010 - FDII Director Paul Kelly has welcomed the appointment of John Travers as facilitator for the grocery goods code. The introduction of a Code of Practice and Ombudsman for grocery goods undertakings ...

Kellogg Named the Most Reputable Food Company in Ireland
05/05/2010 - Kellogg Named the Most Reputable Food Company in Ireland Kellogg has been named the most reputable food company in Ireland, according to new independent research conducted by Corporate Reputations. ...

Market deregulation must drive down industrial electricity costs
21/04/2010 - Food and Drink Industry Ireland (FDII), the IBEC group that represents the Irish food sector, today welcomed the CER’s announcement of electricity market deregulation, but said that industrial ...

Call for state backed export credit insurance scheme
10/02/2010 - Food and Drink Industry Ireland (FDII), the IBEC group that represents the food and drinks sector, today said that the failure of the government to introduce a viable export credit insurance scheme ...