18-05-2025
British government courts Kendamil: the No 1 players in baby milk
I see Dundalk brothers Will and Dylan McMahon dropped into 10 Downing Street recently to update Sir Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, on their rip-roaring Kendamil baby milk business.
Back in 2015, dad Ross McMahon, a former Kerry Group and Campbell Bewley executive, bought the former Heinz infant formula factory in Kendal in Cumbria for £1, saving Britain's only milk powder facility from closure.
• Meet the Irish entrepreneurs competing for America's $4 billion baby milk market
The astute McMahon, awarded an MBE for his efforts, then hit paydirt when the American infant formula market was plunged into a contamination crisis, and opened up to imports. Kendamil sales went from £34.1 million to £95 million in the year to March 2023, and profits
