Ornua

Ornua, previously known as The Irish Dairy Board is an Irish agri-food co-operative, which markets and sells dairy products on behalf of its members, Irish dairy processors and the Irish dairy farmer. The co-operative is Ireland’s largest exporter of Irish dairy products and owns the Kerrygold butter brand as well as Kerrygold Irish Cream Liqueur. In conjunction to the Kerrygold brand, its brand portfolio consists of Pilgrims Choice, Dubliner, Shannongold, and BEO milk powder. On 31 March 2015 Ornua transformed its corporate identity from the Irish Dairy Board to Ornua– The Home of Irish Dairy, to express its proud dairy heritage whilst embodying a clear vision for the future.

The Board was established by an act of the Oireachtas, the Dairy Produce Marketing Act 1961, and replaced the earlier Butter Marketing Committee. It was created to centralize the overseas marketing of Irish dairy products so as to achieve economies of scale and greater brand recognition. At the time of the Board's creation, the European Economic Community's market was closed to Irish butter, and the United Kingdom market limited Irish imports by an import quota.