1. Kerry Group

Kerry Group today provides food, food ingredients and flavours to the Irish and UK markets. Since the commissioning of its first dairy and ingredients plant in Listowel, Co Kerry in 1972, the company has grown to achieve current annualised sales of approximately €5.8 bi...

2. Total Produce

Total Produce grows, sources, imports, packages, distributes and markets over 200 lines of fresh fruits, vegetables and flowers. A spin off of Fyffes, the company is made up of the former general produce and distribution division of the company, and was included in Dubl...

3. Glanbia

Glanbia plc is an international nutritional solutions and cheese group which has its headquarters in Ireland. It has four segments; Dairy Ireland, US Cheese & Global Nutritionals, Joint Ventures and Associates and Other Business. The group has manufacturing and processi...

4. ABP Food Group

ABP is one of Europe’s leading privately owned food processors. Today the group operates across many businesses, spanning Ireland, the UK and Continental Europe and consists of 5 separate divisions: ABP Beef, ABP Proteins, ABP Convenience Foods, ABP Pet Foods and ABP Re...

5. Ornua

Ornua Co-operative Limited is a co-operative exporting dairy products, such as Kerrygold, Dubliner and Pilgrims Choice. Established in 1961, and formerly known as the Irish Dairy Board, it currently exports to over 90 countries worldwide and employs 3,100 people.

6. Moy Park

Northern Ireland's largest food processing company and one of Europe's leading poultry companies, Moy Park is Northern Ireland’s largest private sector employer. The company produces 500 products for categories including fresh poultry, coated poultry, ready to eat, li...

7. Origin Enterprises Plc

Origin Enterprises plc is an Agri-Services group with interests in food and marine proteins and oils. It provides on-farm integrated agronomy advice and the supply of agri-inputs as well as having associate and joint venture interests in consumer foods and marine prote...

8. Fyffes

Fyffes is an importer and distributor of tropical fruit which is headquartered in Dublin. Its other Irish business is in Dundalk and Swords. It also has operations in Europe, the US, central and south America. Its main activities are the production, procurement, sh...

9. Dawn Meats

Dawn Meats Group was established in Co. Waterford, Ireland in 1980. A family business, Dawn Meats supplies a range of beef and lamb carcase and primal cuts throughout the Continent.

10. Dunbia

Dunbia supplies meat including lamb, pork and beef to a range of customers throughout the UK and abroad. The company sources livestock from over 22,000 producers across the UK and Ireland. IN 2013, Dunbia group took over 50% of Tyrone firm Dunrus Ltd and acquired Engl...

11. Kepak

Kepak Group is one of Europe's leading food processing companies. It is divided into three strategic business units comprising Kepak Meat Division (KMD), Kepak Convenience Foods (KCF) and Agra Trading. Each plays a pivotal role in our growth and expansion. Kepak Group ...

12. Dairygold

Dairygold is Ireland's largest co-operative. It was formed in 1990 from the merger of two Cork co-ops, Ballylough and Mitchellstown. About 30 per cent of the co-op’s revenue derives from its agri-operations and retail businesses, with 70 per cent deriving from its da...

13. Fane Valley

Fane Valley is an agri-food business with interests in red meats, feed compounding, agricultural supplies, and renewable energy. The company has sites across Northern Ireland as well as in the Republic of Ireland, England and Belgium. Companies includes Fane Valley M...

14. Lakeland Dairies

Lakeland Dairies, Ireland's second largest dairy processing co-operative, operates within a fifteen county catchment area in the northern half of the island of Ireland. The Group processes about one billion litres of quality milk annually into a range of value added dai...

15. United Dairy Farmers

United Dairy Farmers is a dairy co-operative owned by 1,900 member farmers who supply it with over 1 billion litres of milk per year. The Group's activities span the food chain. From providing farm inputs & feed to farmers, to manufacturing an extensive range of dair...

16. Aurivo

Formerly known as Connacht Gold, Sligo-based Aurivo is one of the country's largest co-ops.Headed by Aaron Forde, it processes milk from its co-op members and has over 14,000 farmer shareholders throughout Connacht and Donegal. In 2011 Aurivo acquired the milk and re...

17. Carbery

Carbery is an international food ingredients, flavours and cheese manufacturer headquartered in Ballineen, Co. Cork. It is owned by four Irish co-operatives and employs approximately 530. Carbery operates from nine locations including Ireland, the UK, the USA, Brazil ...

18. Monaghan Mushrooms

Monaghan Mushrooms supplies a range fresh mushrooms to national and international retailers in the UK, Ireland, Canada and USA. The company is a grower and marketer of fresh mushrooms. The Group headquarters is located in Co Monaghan with production facilities situated ...

19. Grassland Agro

In February 2013, Groupe Roullier’s Timac Agro Ireland business came together with the Freshgrass Group’s Grassland Fertilizers business and formed Grassland Agro. Grassland Agro has three industrial fertilizer plants in Limerick, Cork and Slane with a head office in...

20. Coolmore Stud

Coolmore is the headquarters of the world's largest breeding operation of thoroughbred racehorses. The operation is owned and run by the Magnier family.