Despite an estimated €10 million ($11 million) hit from Covid-related expenses over the past two years, the Krone Group’s transportation and agricultural equipment businesses secured increased profits on the back of higher turnover in its 2020-21 financial year.

Group chairman Bernard Krone explained the company conducted 25 vaccination campaigns across all its sites, administering 8,300 vaccine doses in total, half to employees and half to the family members of employees and to employees of other…