Beer sales slip 17% as Covid takes toll through curbs and shifting habits Quality over quantity is the slogan for Drinks Ireland as it faces into another uncertain year. Pat Rigney, chairman of the Ibec industry grouping and managing director of the Shed Distillery –… Read More »Drinks industry faces into 2022 with ‘remarkable resilience’
Traditionally Cork may have been overlooked as an innovative place to do business as many would have favoured Dublin as their first choice due to the large talent pool and location. However, with the evolution of the city and the growth of the workforce, Cork… Read More »Five reasons why you should set up business in Cork City
Raised spirits as new figures show continued drinks growth, but warning of threats It’s official. Gin is in. Sales of the spirit once informally known as mother’s ruin jumped last year with volumes rising 47.2 per cent. With locally produced brands such as Shortcross, Bertha’s… Read More »Gin craze takes off as sales of Irish whiskey also soar
International arena to account for 40 per cent of food and drink exports by 2025, Bord Bia says Half of the growth in Ireland’s agri-food export volumes last year came from markets outside of Europe, led by a six-fold increase in exports to China, a… Read More »Irish food sector growth targets key non-European markets
After slumping in recent days, sterling was uplifted by the fresh wave of Brexit optimism, after comments of the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, that a deal was a “realistic” prospect by early November. Yesterday, the UK currency was again troubled by reports that Brexiteers… Read More »Irish food firms fear the hard Brexit inevitability
Scheme will be run by the local enterprise offices in conjunction with Bord Bia A new entrepreneur programme aimed at providing new and emerging food businesses with all the information they need in the early stages of production has been launched by the Government. The… Read More »Government launches programme for food start-ups
Built in city’s docklands the building is inspired by the iconic Flatiron Building in New York A €20 million, 15-storey, glass fronted triangular office building is to be built in the docklands in Cork city, on a brownfield site just yards from the Parnell Place… Read More »New York-inspired Prism office building for €20m development in Cork
The Republic is by far the biggest and most important food export market for the North, but could Brexit turn this on its head? Whether it’s millions of litres of milk, artisan gin, traditional soda bread or even a favourite chicken dish, Ireland is by… Read More »Will the Border break the all-Ireland food chain?
A quarter of Cork’s footprint has yet to be built and the city centre will look dramatically different in 20 years to what it does now. That is according to Tánaiste Simon Coveney, who was speaking to business leaders in Cork about the €116bn national development… Read More »Cork City’s skyline set for dramatic transformation
UK accounted for 35 per cent of exports in 2017 despite diversification efforts Irish food and drink exports remain heavily reliant on the UK market despite attempts to diversify ahead of Brexit. Bord Bia’s latest export performance report indicates that the UK accounted for 35… Read More »Brexit: Food and drink exports ‘still heavily reliant’ on UK