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General Industry News   No final figure currently set for Budget 2023 - Taoiseach RTE – 14.09.2022 Budget 2023 will include cost-of-living measures, but there is no final figure currently set on what that amount will be, according to the Taoiseach. Micheál Martin said the

August 2022

Welcome to the August edition of Bord Bia's Ireland Market Foodservice Newsletter. We hope that you have had an opportunity to take a break (at home or away), to switch off and to recharge the batteries in advance of what promises to be a very busy few months ahead!  

Contract Catering & trade sector

Contract Catering & Trade Sector   €85m expansion plans for Center Parcs lodged RTE Business – 10.08.2022 Center Parcs has lodged an application for planning permission for an €85m expansion of its resort in Ballymahon, Co Longford. The application, submitted to Longford

General Industry News

General Industry News   Ireland's competitiveness 'under threat', tourism body warns Irish Times - 11.08.2022 One million people visited Ireland last month, as recovery across the tourism sector continued to gather pace. However, new figures from the Irish Tourism Industry

Trend of the Month

Trend of the Month   BrewDog Marches On In this month’s Irish foodservice newsletter, we report on the opening of independent Scottish craft brewer BrewDog’s second outlet in Ireland – in the centre of Cork city. And on August, 18th, the largest BrewDog unit worldwide will

July 2022

Welcome to the July edition of Bord Bia's Ireland Market Foodservice Newsletter. For those of you that may have missed our mid-year White Paper webinar, you can access an online recording of the event here. We presented topline findings from the White Paper and discussed

Trend of the month

Trend of the Month Diners increasingly looking for an Experiental return for their money At our recent White Paper hybrid event on June 15th, David Henkes of Technomic spoke about the growing polarisation between automated, frictionless foodservice outlets at one end of the

Hotel and Restaurant Sector

Hotel & Restaurant Sector   Plans Approved For New 65-Bedroom Dublin Hotel Hospitality Ireland – 23.06.2022 Plans for a new €15 million boutique hotel and leisure facility in the heart of Dublin will go ahead after the project got the green light following an appeal. The

Trend of the Month

Trend of the Month   Could climate-informed menu options impact diners choices? Yes, according to a recent study involving 250+ consumers undertaken by Universitat Wuzburg, Germany. Researchers presented participants with two menu design approaches across nine hypothetical

Casual Dining and Contract Catering Sector

Casual Dining & Contract Catering Sector   Sysco Foods Ireland sustains €78m Covid hit to revenue The Irish Times – 31.05.2022 Limerick-based food service wholesaler Sysco Foods Ireland last year sustained a €78 million hit to revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Accounts

Hotel and Restaurant Sector

Hotel & Restaurant Sector   Ashford Castle owners secure planning permission for 60-bedroom hotel in Dublin city centre The Journal.ie - 03.06.2022 The owners of Ashford Castle have secured planning permission for a ‘boutique’ five-star 60 bedroom hotel for the capital.

Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) and Pub Sector

Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) & Pub Sector   Profits and revenues up at Domino's main Irish franchise BreakingNews.ie – 17.05.2022 Pre-tax profits at pizza group Domino’s largest Irish franchise increased by 16 per cent to €12.25 million in 2021. New accounts show that

General Industry News

General Industry News   'Strong rebound' in international travel as over 1.4 million people arrive in Ireland in April The Journal.ie – 30.05.2022 Over 1.4 million passengers arrived into Ireland in April, with more people arriving from Great Britain than any other country

hotel and restaurant sector

Hotel & Restaurant Sector   The Dean Galway Opens for Business Hospitality Ireland – 28.04.2022 The Dean Galway hotel officially opened for business on Wednesday 27th April. The Dean Galway is a 100-bed boutique hotel that is more than 5,000 square metres in size. In

Trend of the Month

Trend of the Month Winning Formula? On 28th March, Starbucks’ UK announced figures for their financial year ending October 2021, confirming that total revenues in 2021 rose by 35%, despite a year of continued disruption – how did they do it? Starbucks has a total of 1,000