Search Results for 'food producers'

Food and drinks producers from across Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo, Clare and Limerick, are being targeted for Gather & Grow, with the first networking event taking place at BIA Innovator Campus in Athenry, on Tuesday morning next, November 26.

Launched by the Local Enterprise Office (LEO), Galway in collaboration with BIA Innovator, the newly unveiled curated, food industry led training and networking programmes provide a delicious opportunity for local food businesses that are currently in the pre-start-up stage.

Good Food Ireland has announced the finalists for the national awards, with seven businesses from Galway making the 2024 shortlist. The winners will be announced on November 11.

Some of Ireland’s most exceptional food producers were honoured at the 2024 Euro-Toques Food Awards, held at Airfield Estate, Dublin, on September 23, with Galway’s own McGeough’s Butchers coming first in the Farm category.

Food On The Edge will return to Galway this year on October 21 and 22, after three years of events at Airfield Estate in Dublin. The theme of this year's symposium is A Sense of Place.

FARMEYE, a leading innovator in agricultural technology, this week confirmed the official inauguration of its new office in Monksland Athlone, by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade, and Employment, Simon Coveney.

It was another momentous day in Athenry last Friday when Ireland’s first National Centre of Excellence dedicated to supporting start up, micro and small food businesses was officially opened by An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.

Female entrepreneurs and budding businesswomen from Westmeath, Longford, Laois and Offaly took part in one of the largest-ever programme of events for National Women’s Enterprise Day recently.

Greene’s Family Kitchen, a Westmeath-based producer which is part of Food Academy in SuperValu, has been recognised at Ireland’s biggest food awards. Greene’s Family Kitchen is a family-run farm, producing free-range eggs, frittatas, quiche, and omelettes. On the day, Greene’s took home Gold for Greene’s Free-Range Eggs.

Athlone business, The Irish Craft Soda Company, the brainchild of Dead Centre Brewing at Custume Place, took part in the 2023 Food Academy programme, which is a tailored business development programme for early to mid-stage producers, supported by SuperValu, Bord Bia and the Local Enterprise Office.