Food firm set to serve up a gluten-free Christmas

In the run-up to offering a happy gluten-free Christmas, The Foods of Athenry has clocked up four UK Great Taste awards, three new product launches, two Blás na hÉireann medals and a sales launch in the UK.

And in the 12 baking days left before Christmas, the Galway-based company will be producing many thousand mince pies, several hundred Christmas cakes and a large quantity of puddings. Celebrating its second gluten-free Christmas, the Foods of Athenry has now overcome the adversity of having its factory burnt to the ground in 2011.

Originally set up in 2004 as an on-farm baking enterprise making traditional cakes, bread and Christmas products, it re-launched with a range of gluten-free products a year-and-a-half ago.