Cork-based organic food company to create 36 jobs

MORE than 30 jobs are to be created at a Cork-based organic food company to coincide with the development of a product being described as the ‘holy grail’ of the gluten-free industry.

Bandon-based Heron Quality Foods – a manufacturing plant which specialises in healthy organic products – has created a gluten-free fresh bread which it is claimed may rival conventional wheat-based brands.

Company director Elizabeth Dawson developed the ready-to-eat low-fat loaf that contains fresh ingredients and is claimed to last 12 days before staling and over a month before showing signs of mould.