For weeks, Kerry Group stubbornly resisted media and political pressure over its investment in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, where it owns a factory and a regional development centre in Moscow.
As the Russian war machine unleashed misery on Ukraine’s population, and opposition and sympathy peaked in Ireland, the Tralee-headquartered food ingredients giant ducked and dived from the scrutiny and refused to shut its Moscow plant down. As recently as last weekend, Kerry was still clinging on.
