Ireland’s cutting edge at Anuga 2025
A sizable group of Irish food companies are taking part in Anuga 2025 in Cologne, Germany, which is the largest trade fair for the international food and beverage industry. This biennial event is expected to attract 8,000 exhibitors from 110 countries this year as themes of sustainability and personalised food trends, among many more, will be explored. Here, we profile the Irish companies that are Anuga-bound
MEAT HALL – HALL 6.1
ABP Ireland
ABP Ireland is part of the ABP Food Group, headquartered in Co. Louth. Its activities include processing, deboning, and retail packing beef and lamb at nine plants that are strategically located throughout Ireland. The award-winning company has a long and proud tradition of working with farmers and customers in supplying quality beef and lamb for worldwide markets. It supplies major retailers, foodservice clients, manufacturers, and wholesale distributors. The company offers a range of premium-branded products such as Irish Nature, Irish Hereford Prime, Certified Irish Angus and a comprehensive range of organic beef under the Good Herdsmen brand. ABP’s beef-cattle and lamb are reared on a natural, grass-based diet. ABP’s beef is carefully matured and undergoes the company’s patented ultra-tender process. The company offers a wide range of bespoke beef and lamb products for the manufacturing sector in a variety of specifications in both fresh and frozen formats. It produces a full range of diced, minced and manufacturing products for convenience food and ready-meal producers throughout Europe. Farm assurance, animal welfare, food safety and sustainability ensure the highest standard of product integrity, the company states. ABP is a founding member of Origin Green and currently holds gold-member status. Hall 6.1 | A050 B051
Ashbourne Meat Processors
Ashbourne Meat Processors is a privately owned company that supplies high-quality beef to domestic and worldwide markets. It operates its own slaughterhouse, cutting plants, and modern processing facilities in Ireland, under the strictest quality control and management supervision. Ashbourne Meat Processors holds higher level European Food Safety Inspection Service (EFSIS)-approved ISO 9001 status. It also has modern processing and cold-store facilities. The company offers full traceability from farm to fork and is a member of the Bord Bia Quality Assurance Scheme. This is coupled with a commitment to service which, the company says, gives it an edge in a competitive marketplace. Annually, Ireland produces close to 500,000 tonnes of beef, with 450,000 tonnes exported across the globe. Ashbourne Meats operates modern processing, storage and handling facilities. According to the company, traditional methods of animal husbandry and Ireland's mild climate, fine grasses and expert processing, as well as the company’s strong focus on quality, mean you can taste the difference in its products. The company’s sales team has built trusted and lasting partnerships with distributors in Europe and beyond. Ashbourne Meat Processors is committed to sustainability and is a verified member of Bord Bia's Origin Green sustainability programme. Hall 6.1 | A046
Dawn Farms
Dawn Farms is a family-owned business and Europe’s leading specialist in fully cooked meat, fermented sausage and plant-based protein ingredients. It supplies flavour-forward, ready-to-eat, ready-to-use solutions for pizzas, sandwiches, snacks and prepared meals designed to deliver speed, consistency and performance in fast-paced kitchens. From pepperoni and salami to slow-cooked pulled meats and hybrid- or plant-based options, our products are used by leading food brands across over 50 international markets. Dawn Farms operates out of manufacturing facilities in Ireland, the UK, and Germany, supplying leading brands across manufacturing for retail and foodservice. The company’s growth is built on long-term investment and strategic partnerships and a customer-centric model that supports collaboration from product development through to delivery. Its added-value platforms include: Pure Culinary Science – trend-led product innovation and menu development; and Food Plus – brand protection through traceability, supply chain control, and forensic-level safety standards. Sustainability is embedded in how the company operates, according to the company. Its All Our Futures programme spans all three sites and aligns to the Science-Based Targets initiative. As members of Origin Green, the company says it drives real impact across four key pillars: environment, health and nutrition, sustainable sourcing, and workplace and community. Hall 6.1 | A048
Dawn Meats Group
Dawn Meats is the supplier of choice to a range of leading supermarket, foodservice, and manufacturing businesses, exporting to more than 50 countries. As a family-owned business, Dawn Meats says it remains true to its farming heritage through the close relationships it has forged with over 40,000 family farms from which it directly sources grass-fed cattle and lamb for processing at its 11 Irish and 13 UK sites. Dawn Meats was established in Co. Waterford, Ireland, in 1980. It has grown into a business with over €3bn in annual revenue, employing over 8,000 staff in 10 countries. The company works with some of the world’s leading food companies who are attracted by its commitment to sustainability and quality. Trading as Dunbia in the UK and Dawn Meats in Ireland, the combined businesses process approximately one million cattle and 3.5 million sheep annually. Hall 6.1 | B040 C041
Dawn Pork & Bacon
Dawn Pork & Bacon produces high-quality pork, locally sourced from carefully selected and sustainable stocks. Its state-of-the-art facility is fully customised to process and deliver goods that satisfy a broad range of customer specifications. The pork is prepared from slaughter and deboning through to butchering and delivery, for both national and international markets. The company’s client base stretches from the Irish domestic market to mainland Europe, and beyond, including countries such as Japan, the US, China, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, South Africa and Korea. The company’s manufacturing facility uses the most up-to-date technology, including a computerised traceability and stock-control system from intake to dispatch. In 2014, the company became verified members of the Bord Bia Origin Green programme. Membership of Origin Green and standard accreditations such as BRC, MPQAS, USDA and ISO 14001 ensure that the company maintains constant and continuous development to the highest national and international standards in the food industry. Dawn Pork & Bacon uses only the finest livestock approved by Bord Bia, and sourced from farms within the Republic of Ireland. This is an important aspect of the company’s procurement policy, enabling it to maintain products of the highest standard above and beyond customer expectations. The company breeds its own pigs at a number of Queally-owned farms located in Co. Waterford, in the south of Ireland. It also sources pigs from other Bord Bia-approved farms. With a focused eye on animal breeding programmes, and close working relationships with local farmers, Dawn Pork & Bacon says it ensures that only the finest quality animals are processed at its facility. Hall 6.1 | B043
Kepak Group
Kepak Group boasts a turnover of €2bn and operates 16 manufacturing facilities throughout Ireland and the UK, with sales offices in Europe, the US, and Asia. The group markets a broad range of meat products serving the wholesale, food service, and retail markets. AgraKepak is the international trading division of Kepak Group, with over 50 years of global trade and logistics experience and a leading exporter to Asian markets with plant approvals for Kepak Longford IE 533EC; Kepak Kilbeggan IE 2007 EC; Kepak Athleague IE 313 EC; Kepak Clonee IE 317 EC; and McCarren’s IE 608 EC. Hall 6.1 | B041
Liffey Meats
Liffey Meats is ideally situated in the rich grasslands of Co. Cavan to take advantage of the supply of prime cattle from the surrounding countryside. Over the last 100 years, the company has evolved from a traditional family butchery to become one of Ireland’s leading beef processors. Liffey Meats prides itself on adhering to the strictest quality policies and has always maintained its ethos of customer satisfaction. It has expanded its range of value-added products, providing convenience-led solutions for retail and foodservice. It boasts one of the largest, single-site abattoirs in Ireland, and with other sites in Carlow and Galway, slaughters over 150,000 cattle per year. Liffey Meats manufactures a range of reformed, portion-controlled and pre-packed products, including value-added products, in its Sheelin brand, as well as private-label for retailers and foodservice customers across Europe. Its convenience foods include hamburgers, grill steaks and retail-packed fresh meat. Liffey Meats has invested heavily in convenience food R&D, not only in meat technology but also in increasing packaging sophistication and enhancing long-life products. Hall 6.1 | B049
Buitelaar Group (Prumpelstown Estate)
Established in 1922, the Buitelaar Group specialises in providing sustainable, higher-welfare, beef-supply-chain solutions with a focus on Irish and British beef, and rosé veal. Additionally, it has maximised the value of its by-products through the development of supporting business divisions, which include hides and skins, raw materials, and pet food. The award-winning company was built from the ground up by CEO, Adam Buitelaar, who is passionate about creating sustainable futures for the coming generations of family farmers. This passion has seen the Buitelaar Group become a highly influential voice within the industry, and an advocate for knowledge transfer across cattle farming. Working in partnership with family farmers, the Buitelaar Group says it is committed to producing excellent, higher-welfare pork that is farmed symbiotically with nature. Bred for superior-eating quality, the pigs are farmed within circular systems, with feed produced onsite and farmyard manure incorporated back into the arable land, strengthening key ecosystems. Hall 6.1 | A044
QK Meats Ltd
Established in 1992, QK Meats Ltd, located in Co. Kildare, is part of the Arrow Group of companies. This is a privately owned, Irish agri-food group comprising of 18+ production sites specialising in primal meat-processing to ready-to eat production facilities. QK Meats is a specialist provider of pork, beef, poultry and lamb proteins, as well as offal for the processing industries used in the manufacture of retail and wholesale finished goods. It is also a supplier to the pet-food industry. In relation to fresh meat production, QK Meats specialises in packing and quick freezing to enable continuous supply on the worldwide markets, bridging seasonal supply shortages of primal cuts, offal and high-volume commodity raw materials. Over the last 30 years, the company has built on its experience and broadened its market reach. QK Meats differentiates itself as a preferred supply-chain partner for its customers and suppliers by developing and maintaining key partnerships with major global processors and manufacturers, utilising its unique access to EU import/export quotas, its dedication to food safety and quality; with continuous investment in people over the past 30 years making QK an exciting place to work. Its sales office in Singapore was established last year to service the Asian markets as part of the company’s expansion. Hall 6.1 | A042
Rosderra Irish Meats
Rosderra is Ireland’s largest pigmeat processing business, accounting for approximately 50 per cent of the national kill. It operates two state-of-the-art processing facilities at Edenderry, Co. Offaly and Roscrea, Co. Tipperary. The company also has a speciality-meat-ingredients facility, a pork-curing facility and a cooked-meat facility. Rosderra exports to over 75 countries in the world including across Europe, the US, Australia, China, Korea, The Philippines, Canada and Japan. With advanced control and quality processes, Rosderra’s farm-to-fork traceability provides its customers with a wide range of world-class pork and bacon products. The company’s unique product-coding system enables it to trace all its meat products from their origin to the point of their final destination. The company’s primary focus is to ensure that all the animals supplied are born and reared in Ireland, from farms participating in the national DNA trace back scheme and from national registered farms, certified under Bord Bia’s farm assurance scheme; and approved under Rosderra’s quality pig grid for animal welfare, husbandry, biosecurity, healthcare and structures. Hall 6.1 | A040
DAIRY HALL – HALL 10.1
Kerry Dairy Ireland
Kerry Dairy Ireland is a vertically integrated farm-to-fork business with an extensive retail presence and a leading nutritional and dairy ingredients division. It delivers high-quality dairy solutions with a focus on sustainability and innovation. From partnering with local family farms to producing world-class dairy products, Kerry Dairy Ireland ensures every step of its value chain reflects its commitment to excellence. It works closely with businesses, farmers, and communities to deliver tailored solutions that drive success. From sourcing premium dairy ingredients to developing innovative consumer products, its expertise and resources enable its partners to achieve their goals while prioritising sustainability and quality. Kerry Dairy Ireland offers partners customised solutions; access to expertise; sustainable practices; and global reach. Hall 10.1 | G020c
Ornua Co-operative Ltd
Ornua is Ireland’s largest exporter of Irish dairy products and has annualised sales of over €3.4bn. Headquartered in Dublin, Ornua has a strong global team of 2,800 employees, operating from 10 business units worldwide, including 12 production facilities. Ornua’s core purpose is to build profitable routes to market for Irish dairy products. The group is structured across two divisions: Ornua Foods and Ornua Ingredients. Ornua Foods is responsible for the marketing and sales of Ornua’s consumer brands including Ireland’s most successful food export: Kerrygold, as well as Kerrygold, Dubliner, Pilgrims Choice, Forto and BEO milk powders. Markets are served by production facilities in Ireland, Germany and the UK and by in-market sales and marketing teams in Asia, Germany, Ireland, MEA, Poland, Spain, the rest of Europe and North and Latin America. Ornua Ingredients is responsible for the procurement of Irish and non-Irish dairy products, for the sale of dairy ingredients to food manufacturing and foodservice customers across the world, and for managing volatility through de-risking and trading strategies. The business is supported by production facilities in the UK, Spain, the US, Saudi Arabia, and by in-market teams in Africa and the Middle East. Hall 10.1 | G020
Tirlán
Tirlán is a farmer-owned co-operative with a proven track record of success in global markets. Rooted in a proud heritage of family farming and deeply embedded in its local communities, Tirlán has grown to bring the passion of its farmers and the high quality of their milk and grains to consumers worldwide, the company says. Irish cows are grass-fed, grazing in open pastures, with fresh clean air throughout the year. By combining this natural grass-based advantage with modern technology and best-in-class processes, Tirlán processes over three billion litres of milk and a premium grains portfolio, exporting to more than 100 countries. Drawing on decades of expertise, Tirlán delivers exceptional products and tailored nutritional solutions. Tirlán’s consumer international brand portfolio includes Avonmore Professional, Kilmeaden, Wexford, Premier Dairies and Truly Grass Fed. Avonmore Professional offers a premium range of dairy products designed to meet diverse consumer and foodservice needs. Its international portfolio includes UHT cream, cheese, butter, and cream cheese. Hall 10.1 | G020b, G020g
FROZEN HALL – HALL 4.1
Rosie & Jim
Rosie & Jim is a family business producing nutritious chicken products since 1997. The company uses premium grade chicken and the cleanest ingredients to create a high-quality product with a home-made appeal. The team at Rosie & Jim is highly skilled in food manufacture, technical compliance, and customer service and all products are manufactured from its Dublin-based production facility with no outsourcing. Innovation and continuously improving are high on the Rosie & Jim agenda and the company strives to achieve on-trend, healthy meal options for mainstream consumers but also for those with dietary concerns. The quality and taste of Rosie & Jim’s gluten-free product range is widely recognised through multiple Free From and Quality food awards. The company has received the highest award in the BRCGS (Brand Reputation through Compliance Global Standards) global standard audit, BRC Grade AA certification, which reflects the company’s uncompromising commitment to hygiene, food safety and quality, and its rigorous standard for producing strictly gluten-free products. Hall 4.1 | D035
Coolhull Farm Desserts
Coolhull Farm is a family-owned Irish company founded in 1990 by Tomás Murphy who began making ice-cream, using a classic Italian recipe, on his dairy farm, at Coolhull, Co. Wexford. Previously Paganini Ice Cream, the company is now run by Tomás’s son, Barry. Today, the company still specialises in dairy and makes a full range of premium ice-cream as well as baked and dairy desserts using the milk from Coolhull Farm. Barry says that the quality of its farm-fresh ingredients and its farming heritage differentiates its products and processes. Coolhull Farm Desserts offers a full range of desserts to the foodservice and retail channels. Hall 4.1 | D039
James Kelly & Sons (Wexford) Limited
The Kelly family has been in the baking and confectionery business for over 115 years. In 1908, James Kelly started baking bread for his friends and family. He then began selling it to the local community around Wexford [southeast of Ireland], and two years later he turned what was a pastime into an award-winning business. Over four generations the business has evolved significantly to meet customer demands through innovation and technology. From home deliveries of fresh products via horse and cart, the company now bakes products for distribution across Ireland and continental Europe. It does this in its 15,000sq foot purpose-built factory located within 25km of Rosslare Europort. It operates 24 hours per day and blast freezing and freezer storage are undertaken on site. The company’s new donut plant has the capacity to produce thousands of donuts per hour and also operates 24 hours per day. Kellys has BRCGS (Brand Reputation through Compliance Global Standards) certification and operates under a GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative)-certified factory. Hall 4.1 | D033
Promise Gluten Free
Founded in 2019, Promise Gluten Free produces gluten-free bread that has a great taste, a soft texture, and comes in full-size slices. From the everyday white loaf to handcrafted sourdough and fluffy brioche, Promise Gluten Free offers a wide variety of breads and rolls that are high in fibre, low in fat and sugar, and cater for all tastes and requirements. In addition, the company offers a range of baked goods including lemon drizzle cake and blueberry muffins. Promise Gluten Free bakery is located in rural south Donegal in Ireland, where the landscape is unspoiled and naturally beautiful. Taking care of the environment and community is a priority, the company says. All its packaging is 100 per cent recyclable. Aligned with its company values, it says it works diligently to reduce energy consumption, water usage, and waste. Promise Gluten Free is a gold-standard member of Bord Bia’s Origin Green, the world’s only national food and drink sustainability programme. Hall 4.1 | D039a
OTHER HALLS
Bord Bia
Headquartered in Dublin, Bord Bia [Irish Food Board] is the Irish government agency charged with the promotion, trade development, and marketing of the Irish food, drink, and horticulture industry, both in Ireland and around the world. To help achieve this, Bord Bia has a network of offices in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), Asia, and the US. Bord Bia’s stated purpose is to bring Ireland’s outstanding food, drink and horticulture to the world, enabling the growth and sustainability of producers.
Hall 4.1 | D037 Hall 10.1 | G020a
Hall 04.1 | D037 Hall 6.1 | B049a
Food-Bridge Ltd
Food-Bridge is a specialist in the importation, distribution and wholesaling of poultrymeat, serving the manufacturing, foodservice, wholesale and retail sectors. It offers a wide range of frozen chicken and duck products from approved suppliers, sourced in accordance with market requirements. Food Bridge has a global network of trading links with markets throughout the world. Its multi-continent sourcing strategy ensures that it can obtain the optimum quality for its customer base while ensuring security of supply in the event of market disruptions; that customer base consists of manufacturers, retailers and foodservice operators worldwide. As BRC Agents and Brokers certified company, Food-Bridge only sources fully traceable products from approved suppliers to guarantee the highest standards in food safety and quality. BRC, IFS and ISO accreditation, as a minimum, is the norm for its supply base to ensure that product quality consistently meets the requirements of its customers. Specifications and technical advice can be provided for its major product lines. Hall 9.1 | D029