Food group’s €5m a year Tesco deal

MEATH-BASED Largo Foods has won a €5 million a year deal to supply supermarket giant Tesco with a range of snack foods.

The contract will see Largo, which is best known for making Perri crisps, supply Tesco with premium range own brand snack foods.

Largo said yesterday it will increase its workforce as a result of the deal by nearly 30 people. The company, which was founded in 1983, already employs 450 people. The new jobs will be created in its dedicated snack production facility in Gweedore, Donegal, where the Tesco Select own brand snacks range will be produced.