Oliver Carty business helps bring home the bacon

THIRTY-FIVE years ago Oliver Carty couldn’t have envisaged that producing home cooked ham at the back of his Co Westmeath home would grow into a business selling about three million rashers a week.

Seldom has the importance of going the “quality” route in food production been better illustrated as the Oliver Carty Ltd business was gradually enhanced and expanded.

Today Oliver’s son, Ted Carty, presides over a business selling more than €30 million per year of specialist bacon products, produced from about 2,600 pigs processed each week in two adjoining factories at Monksland, Athlone, employing 90 people.