Food technology and ingredients company Kerry Group has announced a new Digital Centre of Excellence, at its Global Innovation Centre in Naas, Co Kildare.
The new centre, which is designed to increase operational efficiencies and enhance customer connectivity, is being supported by a €7.5m grant from Enterprise Ireland.
Kerry said the new centre will focus on driving enhanced business performance and productivity through digital enablement initiatives across operations, R&D, commercial activities, and global business services.
Advanced generative AI solutions will be utilised to improve business processes and further enhance customer partnerships.
Kerry has piloted a number of digital initiatives over the past 12 to 18 months and will upscale their deployment, as well as starting a range of further digital excellence enablement initiatives over the next two years.
Shane McGibney, Chief Business Transformation Officer at Kerry, said the new Digital Centre of Excellence creates exciting opportunities to accelerate our business.
“The initiative represents a new aspect of transformation at Kerry. We appreciate Enterprise Ireland’s support and the agency’s ongoing engagement with Kerry over many years,” he said.
Jenny Melia, Executive Director at Enterprise Ireland, said this investment is further proof of Kerry Group’s commitment to innovation and commercial excellence.
“Enterprise Ireland has supported this development under the Research, Development and Innovation Fund, which supports investment in large-scale transformation projects to increase company competitiveness and further places Ireland as a market leader in innovation,” she said.
“Enterprise Ireland is proud to support this new Centre of Excellence at the Kerry Global Innovation Centre in Kildare and we remain committed to supporting Irish companies like Kerry on their innovation agenda to further build on the resilience and competitiveness of the Irish food sector,” she added.
