Pork is a staple food in China, which has the largest porcine population in the world. Its 475 million pigs represent nearly half the global total. Some 70 percent of these animals are raised by ...

The Vion plant employs around 700 people. Last week the company was on the Northern Ireland trade mission to China - and earlier this year invested £11m in the Cookstown plant, with almost £1m ...

Outside of PIC China, it reported a good performance in ABS, its bovine sales business, with the unit posting adjusted operating profit growth of 9%. Genus's dividend for the year was held at 32.0p.