Scaling up food and drinks firms

Investment by food and drink companies In Ireland has accelerated this year, but there are concerns it is too narrowly based and that there are too few ‘scalable’ companies in the sector.

So far in 2015 Irish food companies have announced investments of €156.6m.

In addition, Glanbia’s new dry powder facility in Waterford announced in 2013, started operations earlier this year following an investment of €185m. It is one of the largest facilities of its kind in Europe.