How Lismore Food Company have gone from strength to strength

They were radio presenters, actors and building society staff before they started making biscuits at home. Now they are selling to one of the UK’s biggest supermarkets. So how did the Lismore Food Company do it, asks Roz Crowley.

FOR a company started just 11 months ago, an order from Marks & Spencer for 300 of their 400 UK stores comes close to a lottery win. For The Lismore Food Company their winning ticket, worth over a quarter of a million euros, had the magic numbers: a good idea, well developed and executed and plenty of business experience.

Multinationals often seduce with large orders, but insist on their own labels, absorbing products which lose producers’ identity, but this order is for the Lismore Food Company brand, complete with its original, elegant packaging.