The
Food Hub’s first tenant was Lough Allen Foods, a company passionate
about producing wholesome ready meals. Established in 2006 by award winning
chef Stephen Dowd, the company excels in the manufacture of restaurant quality
ready meals. The team use only the freshest local Irish produce carefully
selected and cooked to ensure that the consumer will enjoy a flavoursome and
fulfilling meal, ready in just 4 minutes! Employing 11 full time staff, the
company now distributes its products in over 400 retail outlets on an all
island basis. They are also sub-contract manufacturers for the food service,
hospitality and retail markets. Exciting new product development is under
way as Lough Allen Foods grows its business - additional production space
has been secured in the Food Hub to facilitate that growth. www.loughallenfoods.com
surf seeds
When
our Dragon’s Den champion Tim Rooney set up Surf Seeds, his innovative
snack food company at the Food Hub, success was just around the corner for
this range of healthy snack foods. Tim has been working on the Surf Seeds
concept for many years. He saw a gap in the market for a more trendy but healthy
snack product.Surf Seeds has emerged with the first resealable seed container
ideal for snacking, iconic packaging, delicious product ranges of savoury
and sweet flavors and the first company to use chocolate and natural seeds
in a snack mix. The Food Hub was the ideal location for Tim, an experienced
chef he held the celebrity TV chef spot on TV3. Access to onsite technical
and funding expertise and world class facilities made the production set up
very straightforward. Now firmly established in The Food Hub the company’s
products are distributed in Ireland through Pallas Foods and Surf Seeds are
cracking export markets as far away as New Zealand. www.surfseeds.com
Irish Organic Herbs is the first company to have pioneered the organically certified field-scale cultivation of medicinal herbs in Ireland. The herbs used to produce the Irish Organic Herbs range are mainly grown on certified organic Irish farms. This guarantees the purity of product, with full traceability from seed to sale, independently audited. The company’s herbal tinctures span a range of 12 single herb tinctures and 4 herbal tincture blends sold through Health Food stores and selected Pharmacies around the country and through the company website www.irishorganicherbs.com
Curry
Seafoods Ltd was started in 1998 by Peter Curry a qualified chef passionate
about seafood. He saw an opening for a supplier of top quality fish to hotels
and restaurants and retail units all around the island of Ireland at an affordable
price. Their Food Hub state of the art processing unit adds value to harvests
of fish from the clear sparkling water of the Atlantic Ocean. All the fillets
are cut by hand by professional fish filleters and presented according to
the customer’s requirements. Peter was joined in the business by his
brother Paul, also a qualified chef and together they have expanded the business
to add value to the fish by developing a range of smoked products which are
proving to be a winner with consumers and food critics alike. www.curryseafoods.ie
