Pudding deal served up

A West Cork food brand, synonymous with the town of Clonakilty, has made a strategic site purchase, as part of a multi-million euro business development strategy.

Clonakilty Blackpudding, which employs 45 and has been owned by the Twomey family since 1976, has bought a six acre site for new facilities, a kilometre from the town centre, with 300m frontage to the town’s relief road, and with access from Michael Collins Road opposite Dunnes Store. The site, previously Hills Mills and with commercial mill buildings in its centre, had been acquired by Fleming Construction in the mid-2000s for a reported €5-6m.

It was put up for sale last year with DTZ and Sherry FitzGerald O’Neill, for PWC receiver Billy O’Riordan, and is understood to have been bought for over €750,000.