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The board of Glanbia plc yesterday announced a January manufacturing milk price of 25.25cpl (VAT inclusive).

More than 2,000 angry Glanbia milk suppliers attended protests in Kilkenny yesterday to demand the reversal of the company's March price cut, which reduced the milk price to 20 cent a litre, one of the lowest prices in the country.

Farmers are going under as a result of the price being paid for milk by local milk giant Glanbia according to local Thomastown Electoral Area candidate for Fine Gael, Joey O' Hanrahan.

The recent announcement of 20c per litre of milk for suppliers by Glanbia has been criticised by Kilkenny Councillor Malcolm Noonan. He fully supports action taken by dairy farmers recently in their protests outside Glanbia offices in Kilkenny.

Four Glanbia branches are to close in Kilkenny along with seven of its other agribusiness branches across the country as part of the company’s rationalisation plan.

Agri Aware is encouraging Kilkenny’s agri-food sector to stand up and be counted among Irish consumers and influential policy makers, in a major survey designed to assess just how much agri-food is worth to the economy.

Glanbia plc, the international cheese and nutritional ingredients group, has announced its results for the first half of the year which ended on July 4, 2009.

Bord Bia’s next Brand Forum event will take place in the Mullingar Park Hotel, Mullingar, on Tuesday September 15. The Brand Forum, a group made up of over 100 Irish food, drink, and horticulture companies, meet six times a year – on a quarterly basis in Dublin and bi-annually regionally. The member food and drink companies range in size and profile from small enterprises to multinationals. It has proven to be a highly successful learning and networking opportunity for companies addressing issues specific to brand marketing in the food and drink arena.

Glanbia Ingredients Ireland, with operations at Ballyragget, County Kilkenny and Virginia, County Cavan, was acknowledged as a leader in energy efficiency by the European Committee of Standardisation (CEN) at the launch of Europe’s newest energy management system, EN 16001, in Brussels last week.

Following Kilkenny’s magnificent display in Croke Park this year, Brian Cody’ s new book Cody must be the most eagerly anticipated sporting book of the year and it is to be made available early to ploughers next week.