Avoca examining Cork expansion

Having opened a €3m Avoca store in Dunboyne, Co Meath, just this week, a Cork Avoca is next in line for the expansionist, upmarket Irish food and household product company.

Avoca was bought from its founders, the Pratt family, by the giant US Aramark Corporation in late 2015, for €64m, and also set for an Avoca imprint are Galway and the UK.

Following the sale to Aramark, Avoca’s MD, Simon Pratt, and his wife, Monique, spent €975,000 in 2016 buying a West Cork holiday home, Kitchen Cove, next door to Graham Norton. The house, at the water’s edge in Ahakista, was bought via local agents, Charles P McCarthy.