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Irish Meat Companies
Ashbourne Meats: Ashbourne Meat Processors is one of Ireland’s leading beef processors, exporting premium chilled Irish beef all over the world since 1985 from cattle sourced locally at their abattoir in Tipperary.
Oakpark: Oakpark is part of the family-owned Brett Group started in 1940. The company’s success has grown from the roots of a small agricultural merchant, selling inputs to farmers in Kilkenny and Tipperary to a multinational meat processor servicing some of the biggest retailers in the world as one of Ireland’s leading animal feed millers and grain merchants.
Oliver Carty: Oliver Carty has been Ireland’s leading meat supplier for over three-quarters of a century, dedicated to combining our Irish heritage and traditions with innovation and imagination to deliver superior-tasting Irish meat products.
John Stone: For over five decades, John Stone has built an unrivalled reputation around the world as a supplier of the finest dry aged beef. Their artisan butchers expertly select the very best Irish beef from totally traceable herds, reared only on the freshest, greenest grass. This, combined with a unique dry ageing process creates a highly distinctive flavour and the most succulent meat.
Irish Dairy Companies
Glanbia Ireland: With a turnover of €3.8 billion per annum, more than 7,600 employees and a presence in 32 countries worldwide, Glanbia is a global nutrition company, grounded in science and nature and dedicated to providing better nutrition for every step of life’s journey. Glanbia has deep roots in the dairy industry and has become the world’s leading producer and marketer of quality performance nutrition consumer products supporting active lifestyles.
Ornua: Ornua is a dairy co-operative which sells dairy products on behalf of its Member Co-ops; Ireland’s dairy processors and, in turn, Irish dairy farmers. It is Ireland’s largest exporter of Irish dairy products, exporting to 110 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Dublin, it has annualised sales of over €2.3 billion and a global team of 2,400 employees. Ornua operates from 10 business units worldwide, including 13 production facilities, and has sales and marketing teams working in-market across all four corners of the globe.
Lakeland Dairies: Lakeland Dairies is a leading global provider of excellent dairy products made to the most exacting international standards of quality, traceability and reliability across all applications. The co-operative processes over 1.2 billion litres of milk each year, supplied by dairy farmers from 15 counties on a cross border basis. Lakeland Dairies markets 230 dairy Food Service and Food Ingredient products to over 80 countries worldwide, exporting close to 100% of its entire production capacity to every corner of the globe.
Tipperary Co-Op: Tipperary Cooperative Creamery Limited is a medium-sized 100% farmer owned cooperative with over 100 years of dairy processing experience, Tipperary Cooperative is widely renowned for the manufacture and supply of high quality, technically differentiated dairy ingredients, including high heat and 'high heat - heat stable', low spore skim and buttermilk powders, continental style cheeses and a high quality grass fed butter for retail and food ingredient sector.
Glenstal Foods: Glenstal Foods LT.D.. is Ireland's leading independent dairy trading and marketing company. They are a partner of choice to many multi-nationals in the retail, food service and manufacturing sectors of the food industry where dairy products are used.
GoBia: GoBia provides cost-effective dairy concentrates, dairy ingredients, flavours and high-quality fermented products including cream cheese and premium burger slices. Through a highly qualified team of food scientists and researchers, they can create customised products with specific textural, flavour and functional properties to meet the exact requirement of the end user.
Irish PCF companies
Dawn Farms: Dawn Farms is Europe’s leading dedicated multi-species cooked meat ingredients company, offering the most comprehensive range of fermented and dried sausage products (pepperoni, salami and chorizo) for the pizza, sandwich, snack and prepared meal sectors. The extensive product range is further complemented by a growing selection of plant-based cooked protein options to meet today’s developing consumer trends. A family company with a global reach, Dawn Farms exports to over 44 international markets.
Future Nutrition LT.D.: Established in 2010, Future Nutrition is a private label development and manufacturing partner that is fully focused on helping develop the best tasting functional beverages and ready to mix powders from functional shots, protein waters and energy drinks, to protein powders, pre-workout and superfoods.
Musgrave International: Musgrave is Ireland’s leading food retail, wholesale and foodservice company. Together with retail partners, they support more than 41,000 jobs, in more than 1,400 stores and offices, with combined total retail sales of €5.2 billion. Musgrave is proud to be one of Europe’s most successful family-owned businesses with a 140-year heritage in food and brand innovation. Every day they feed one in three people in Ireland through 11 market leading food brands that include SuperValu, Centra, MarketPlace and La Rousse Foods.
Silver Hill Duck: Silver Hill Duck is a fully integrated premium Duck Producer from breeding, egg production, hatching and selection to processing and cooking. The success of Silver Hill Duck lies in the unique Silver Hill Hybrid duck, continually developed over the years to produce a duck that is full of flavour, succulent, tender and consistent in its quality. At 70% export led, Silver Hill Duck currently supplies duck & a range of duck products to 24 countries worldwide including the UK, Holland, Germany, UAE, Singapore & Hong Kong.
