Nine food and drink companies have completed the first FoodService Academy programme with Musgrave MarketPlace.
The companies will supply products to Musgrave MarketPlace’s 6,000 foodservice customers, which range from hotels and restaurants to pubs and nursing homes.
The companies participated in a four month programme which included workshops and mentoring sessions. Musgrave’s sales and trading teams are working with each of the companies to develop their products in line with foodservice customer requirements.
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Sheena Forde, trading director, Musgrave MarketPlace said: “Bord Bia have been a fantastic partner and plans are already underway for a 2017 FoodService Academy programme.”
The nine companies are:
- Atlantis Seafood, a family seafood business based in Wexford
- Blanco Nino, Europe’s only producer of authentic corn tortillas and un-fried tortilla chips made in Tipperary
- Coffee House Lane, a Waterford family run coffee roaster
- Lily’s Tea Shop, blenders of a range of premium, loose leaf teas as well as matcha tea and premium tea pyramids based in Louth
- Nobó, the dairy free ice-cream producer, which is made without any refined sugar, gums or stabilisers
- Maria Lucia Bakes, a Dublin producer of gourmet gluten, wheat and dairy free granola cereals
- Kildare’s Outdoor Oinks, a range of Bord Bia approved pork and bacon products
- Tipperary Kitchen, a family run artisan bakery producing a range of handcrafted meringues, dessert sauces and chocolate biscuit cake
- Wildberry Bakery, an artisan gluten free bakery in Cork.
Photo: Philip Martin of Blanco Nino (left), chef Tom Flavin of Strand Hotel, Limerick, and Jim Bourke (right), GM of Musgrave MarketPlace in Limerick.
