63. 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.

62. Seskin Investments

Seskin Investments (formerly Begley Brothers) produces, markets and distributes fruit and vegetables. It has about 850 acres devoted to carrots, potatoes, broccoli, cabbage, parsnips and pumpkins for the Hallowe'en market, with trials of other root crops underway. Seski...

61. 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...

60. ADM Ireland

ADM began operations in Ireland in 1981. ADM trades ingredients through its subsidiary ADM Arkady Ireland Ltd for food and animal feed at offices in Dublin and Cork, together employing 15 people.

59. Comex McKinnon

The principle activity of Comex McKinnon (Comex Holdings) is the trading, importing and exporting of grain in Ireland and Northern Ireland. It employs 15 people.

58. Greenfields Ireland

Greenfields Ireland Limited is an international dairy trading company supplying dairy ingredients, specialist milk products and finished dairy products to customers throughout Europe, the Middle East, South America, Far East and Africa. The company sources dairy produ...

57. Charles R Wynne Foods

Charles R Wynne Ltd is an agriculture merchant based in Moone, Co. Kildare with a second branch in Tullow, Co. Carlow. The company has been operating since 1978 and services all sectors of farming from feed to tillage, primarily as animal feed manufacturers, and grain. ...

56. Corby Rock

Manufacturers of animal feed products in Ireland, Corby Rock Mill was set up in 1975, principally to ensure high quality feeds for its sister company Corby Rock Eggs. It now trades in poultry, ruminant, sheep, horse and calf markets throughout Ireland.

55. Donegal Investment Group

Donegal Investment Group, formerly known as Donegal Creameries, has five main divisions making up its business: Dairy, Agri-inputs, Produce, Property/Other Investments, Other. It has operations in Ireland, the UK, Holland and Brazil. Its Dairy business is centred on...

54. Roches Feeds

Roche's Feeds, Limerick, (Scorta), is a family-owned business founded in 1879. It specialises in manufacturing of animal feed for the Irish market. The company has developed its business from a small manufacturing unit employing 18 staff in 1994, to a company which is n...

53. Barclay Chemicals

35-year-old Barclay Chemicals is an independent Irish-owned company, which manufactures and supplies post-patent agrochemicals for protecting crops from a facility in West Dublin. Their fully integrated site in Damastown delivers registration, manufacturing and distri...

52. Goldcrop

The company is involved in the manufacture of cereal seeds and animal feeds, and the wholesale of agricultural inputs, horticultural seeds and plants and amenity turf-care products. Established by Michael P Murphy in 1984 through a management buy-out of the Agricult...

51. Liffey Mills

Liffey Mills (Labtop Ltd) sells fertilisers and agricultural products. It also manufactures and sells feedmeals. Labtop Ltd's best known subsidiary is Liffey Mills, which was founded in 1982 by Richard Liffey Jnr. It is based in Roscrea and has operations in Shinrone, N...

50. Grennans

J Grennans & Sons is a family owned agri-trading business and have been involved in agri-trading since 1878. The company, which began as a retailing company, manufactures and distributes animal feeds, farm fertilisers and agricultural seeds. They also are involv...

49. Centenary Thurles Co-op Society

The Centenary Co-op was founded in 1898. It is a farmer-owned co-operative society. It has retail and trading outlets at Ballyduff, Cashel, Littleton, Loran, Montore and Templemore. Its grain intake facilities are located at O’Meara Grain Thurles, Ballyduff and Cashel. ...

48. Limcor

Limcor is engaged in the manufacturing and distribution of animal feed. It is the holding company for a group which includes Cork-based Southern Mills and Longford-base Paul & Vincent.

47. Agri Health Limited

Agri Health Limited, formerly known as Monaghan Veterinary Laboratory, was formed in 1966 to provide a diagnostic and advisory service to the poultry industry, which is largely based in Monaghan. The company distributes veterinary medical supplies in Ireland and the UK.

46. Oliver Carty

Oliver Carty Ltd is a family-run business that supplies a range of branded and own branded pork, bacon and rasher products to retailers in Ireland. The company produces a range of bacon and pork products including traditional, free range and organic products, dry cur...

45. Irish Yogurts

Irish Yoghurt was established in 1994 by Diarmuid O’Sullivan with the aim of producing traditional churn-made yoghurt for retail outlets nationwide. The company has grown from a one-person artisan operation to a nationally recognised company with 160 employees produci...

44. Quinns of Baltinglass

Quinns opened in October 1936 as a bar/grocery hardware and seed business. Initially servicing the general Baltinglass area, over the years Quinns expanded and diversified and is now an agricultural merchant, retailing and wholesaling grain, seed, feed, fertiliser and a...