Avonmore

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Avonmore, Edmonton

Avonmore is a residential neighbourhood in south east Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was named after the Avonmore in Ireland. It is in the shape of an irregular quadrilateral bounded on the south east by Argyll Road, on the south west by Mill Creek Ravine, on the north by 76 Avenue and on the east by 75 Street. It is surrounded by a mixture of residential neighbourhoods and industrial subdivisions. To the north is the residential subdivision of King Edward Park. To the east and south east are the industrial subdivisions of Girard Industrial and Coronet Addition Industrial. Separated from Avonmore by the Mill Creek Ravine are the residential neighbourhoods of Argyll, Hazeldean and Ritchie.

Avonmore is an ethnically mixed neighbourhood with the most commonly identified ethnic groups for persons identifying themselves with a single ethnic group in the 2001 Federal Census being German (5.9%), Canadian (5.2%), Ukrainian (3.3%), Scottish (2.6%) and English (2.0%). Three out of four census respondents identified themselves with multiple ethnic groups.

Avonmore (Cooperative)

Avonmore Creameries Federation was formed in 1966 when over 30 small rural co-operative Creamery societies from the Villages of County Kilkenny, Ireland, and together with the support of Unigate Limited a few Creameries from some neighbouring counties agreed to amalgamate. Unigate’s involvement ceased when in 1978 the cooperative bought back Unigate's stake in the Ballyragget facility.

History

The Village Creameries amalgamation started when the Avonmore Creameries food brand was first created in 1966. Their Coop entity was registered as a public comnpnay in 1988, as Avonmore Food plc and later merged with Waterford Food plc in 1997. It is today known as Glanbia, a nutrition company with revenues of over €3.5 billion and 5,815 employees.

Avonmore in 1966 aimed to derive benefits from increased scale and greater diversification in in the 1960s. It led to the construction of a multi-purpose Avonmore dairy plant facility in Ballyragget, County Kilkenny, which they claimed was the biggest food processing facility in Europe of that time. Glanbia Plc was formed in 1997 out of the merger of Avonmore Foods plc and Waterford Foods plc. Both Avonmore and Glanbia have their origins in the Irish agricultural co-operative movement that evolved over the last century, ever since first Irish Co-operative in 1889 was founded by Horace Plunkett. Glanbia Plc now have operations in 34 countries and are exporting from Ireland to more than 100 countries worldwide. Their combined operations were ranked by revenues (in 2010 figures) in the top 100 Cooperatives, at No 98 Co-op in the world and at No 1 Co-op in Ireland, by the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA), an international organisation of co-operatives.