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5 Key Sources of Insight for Winning in the Dairy Category

The Bord Bia library has a wide range of reports that can provide client companies with the insights needed to win in the dairy category. Below is an overview of some recent publications now available from the library. These cover specific categories and markets, and also

Who is the Irish Chilled Ready Meals Shopper and what do they want?

Following last week’s article providing an overview of the Chilled Ready Meals category in the Irish market, this insightful article provides a summary of the main findings from Shopper Intelligence’s presentation by taking a deeper dive into answering the questions of how

Poor weather takes the shine off the BBQ season

The poor weather in Summer 2023 impacted more than our holiday plans, it also put a dampener on meat sales for the barbeque season.

Hotel and Restaurant Sector

Hotel & Restaurant Sector   New Maldron Hotel Opens on Dublin’s Merrion Road Hospitality Ireland – 30.09.2022 A new four-star, 140-bedroom Maldron hotel has opened on Dublin’s Merrion Road. The Maldron Hotel Merrion Road is operated by Dalata Hotel Group Plc as part of a

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

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   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.

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

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

General Industry News

General Industry News Irish consumer sentiment reached its lowest level since February Business Post – 23.12.2021 Irish consumer sentiment reached its lowest level since February in December, due to concerns over the spread of Covid-19 as well as fears over the rising cost

Casual Dining and Contract Catering Sector

Casual Dining & Contract Catering Sector   Musgrave MarketPlace and Circle K enter new five-year partnership ShelfLife.ie – 23.11.2021 Musgrave MarketPlace and Circle K have signed a new five-year strategic partnership. Under the terms of the partnership, Musgrave

Hotel and restaurant sector

Hotel & Restaurant Sector   Restaurants in suburbs and staycation destinations recovering more strongly than those in Dublin City, according to new data Hospitality Ireland – 07.09.2021 Food businesses in the suburbs and staycation destinations are recovering much more

September 2021

Welcome to the September edition of Bord Bia's Ireland Market Foodservice Newsletter.   This week’s Government announcement in relation to further reopening of the economy was met with a cautious welcome from the main hospitality industry representatives, many of them

General Industry News

General Industry News Unemployment hits pandemic low of 12.4% as economy begins to rebound The Irish Times – 01.09.21 The State’s Covid-adjusted unemployment rate fell to 12.4 per cent in August, its lowest level since the start of the pandemic, as the phased reopening of

Hotel & Restaurant Sector

Hotel & Restaurant Sector  Up to 40,000 weddings expected next year due to backlog from pandemic  Business Post – 13.06.2021  Up to 40,000 happy couples could get married next year, twice as many as would normally be the case in a typical pre-pandemic year. According to an