Tesco Ireland has confirmed it intends to submit planning for a replacement store in Cavan Town. Subject to planning approval, the scheme will see a modern, sustainable, and accessible new store built in Cavan Town Centre along with new car parking facilities, the provision of Click+Collect services for customers, and include a Grocery Home Shopping […]
The Donohoe family has a long history of retailing in Cavan and the surrounding counties of Leitrim and Fermanagh. Nowadays, Darren Donohoe fronts the successful family business which incorporates Donohoes SuperValu Ballyconnell, Donohoes SuperValu Ballinamore and Donohoes Centra, Belturbet. From humble beginnings, the Donohoe Group has grown to become one of the largest employers in the region and has […]
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 […]
McCarren Meats (McCarren & Company) delivers a full range of pork and bacon from carcasses to full meat products from its site in Cavan. Established in 1860 by John McCarren, it is Ireland’s oldest traditional pig and bacon curing business and the only fully integrated pork processing site in the country that can slaughter, cut, […]
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 […]
Operated by Musgrave Operating Partners Ireland since its takeover of Superquinn in 2011, SuperValu Swords Pavilions is a 30,000 sq. ft. store which employs 150 people, including store manager Ger Joyce who was recently named Large Supermarket Manager of the Year at the 2022 National Grocery Management Awards. Behind every good manager is a great team and this is especially […]
Glanbia – which recently changed its name to Tirlán – has a strong presence in the north-east where it has operations in Drogheda, Co. Louth and Virginia, Co. Cavan. The origins of the company’s milk processing plant on the Dublin Road in Drogheda go back to 1957 when it was founded by Noel Ryan and initially […]
Fuel, food and retail customers are provided with exceptional value and service in convenient, comfortable surroundings at Applegreen Lusk M1 North, which had the distinction of being Ireland’s first motorway service station when it opened in 2010 and is also the busiest. We dropped in and had a word with award-winning manager Michael Feeney to […]
