West Cork firm hits on a cracking idea for success

Sending Italian- style biscuits to a French cosmetics company based in Belgium is just one example of what an enterprising West Cork company can do.

Regale Biscuits in Clonakilty specialises in hand-made cookies and biscuits while also making own-brand crackers for Sheridans Cheesemongers. One of its signature products is Baci di Dama (Lady’s kisses) which it sold by the thousand this year to a hamper company which shipped them to Belgium where l’Oreal used them for promotions.

Employing a staff of five, Regale is working on plans to develop exports while also finalising negotiations with a multiple which is looking for a supply of own-label biscuits to go on the shelves in dozens of stores by November.