SuperValu has announced that €7.9 million has been invested in sustainability initiatives across its stores over the past six months. Of this €7.9 million, some €4.1 million was drawn down from a major sustainability fund announced by Musgrave in June 2022 while an additional €3.8 million spend has been matched by independent SuperValu retailers. The […]
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has confirmed the resumption of Irish beef exports to China. Beef shipments to China were suspended in May 2020 following the confirmation by DAFM of an isolated case of atypical BSE. Bord Bia CEO Jim O’Toole has welcomed the lifting of the suspension by the General […]
On Christmas Eve, Tesco and its food surplus partners FoodCloud and Olio provided nearly 13,000 meals to individuals and families who needed it most in communities nationwide. FoodCloud and Olio, for the first time, redistributed surplus food from all of Tesco’s 164 stores across Ireland. This represented Tesco’s most ambitious Christmas Eve surplus food donations […]
BWG Foods has announced a significant €2 million expansion to their increasingly low carbon delivery fleet through the addition of 10 new bio-methane powered HGVs (Heavy Good Vehicles), adding to our existing fleet of two biogas trucks, which were originally launched in 2020 as part of a pioneering company programme to test innovative low carbon […]
The first edition of Grocery & Retail Ireland magazine is out now. Hot off the press, the magazine features interviews with some of the leading individuals in the sector as well as the latest industry news. Eoin Kennedy of the Buckley Group talks to us about the company’s three Supervalu and one Centra stores. Michael […]
ALDI Ireland officially opened its new store in Mountbellew, Co. Galway, the latest step in the company’s dedicated West of Ireland expansion programme which will see over €63 million invested and more than 140 new full-time jobs created across Connacht over the next two years. This €63 million investment which underlines ALDI’s commitment to the […]
From November, many hundreds of households across Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, will have their shopping delivered by a brand new all-electric Tesco delivery vehicle as it is trialled in the area. This is part of Tesco’s efforts to become net zero in its own operations by 2035 and will see Dún Laoghaire become the first […]
Four Star Pizza has partnered with BWG Foodservice, one of Ireland’s leading suppliers to the foodservice sector, in a multimillion euro deal over the next five years for the exclusive supply of all food ingredients to the expansive Irish-owned pizza group. The new contract, will see BWG Foodservice, which is part of leading Irish wholesale […]
ALDI Ireland has agreed a new deal with Dublin-based pizza suppliers Sorrento Pizza, worth €10 million over the next four years. The deal will see the company continue to supply all of ALDI’s 153 Irish stores with its sourdough and stonebaked pizza bases, which are produced in Ireland by Master Baker Giorgio Lisi using a […]
The findings of Bord Bia’s 2022 Irish Foodservice Market Insights Report released show that the Irish foodservice, or ‘out of home’, industry experienced significant growth of 61% in value to reach over €8.2 billion this year. This represents an almost full recovery to pre-pandemic levels, but it is set against a forecast for modest growth of 11.6% in 2023 (predicted […]
