Meat firm grows from breakfast

Historically, the market for cooked meats was in bulk product, that was then sliced in the corner shop and the supermarket. This is rapidly changing and the market is now demanding product that is ready sliced and ready to go

A production line at Glen Aine Foods, Knocklong, Co Limerick, and inset, sales manager Dave McGrath with some of the company’s products. Picture: Don Moloney/Press 22

Glen Aine Foods was one of the companies which came to the notice of the great and the good who attended the Irish summer breakfast in the Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ashtown during the Euroscience Open Forum.