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A NEW FOOD plant at Lusk based Ballymaguire Foods is to create 100 new jobs.
An additional 100 jobs will be created in the construction industry with the building of the new state-of-the-art 70,000 square foot plant.
The new jobs are said to be worth an extra €4 million to local economy.
Job openings
The company is looking to fill graduate positions in sales and marketing, food scientists and technicians, research and development, new product development, chefs and general operatives.
Ballymaguire Foods currently employs 150 people in Lusk and is the largest producer of chilled ready meals to retailers in Ireland.
The company, founded in 2008, specialises in making and developing private label prepared foods for the top retailers and well-known international food service operators. It’s customers include Tesco, Lidyl, Aldi, Centra, Supervalu and Budgens.
Irish owned
It is a fully Irish owned company, producing approximately 80 different product offerings for the own-brand, Irish retail and food service industry.
Managing Director Ed Spelman said it had strong plans and targets to expand production over the next five years.
Our production capability will now grow to over 500,000 meals per week and this will mainly be used to fuel the opportunities we see in the UK and add to our existing business there. We managed to buck the trend during the recession, as we used it to find new opportunities and successfully grow.
“We pride ourselves in supporting the local economy and where possible, local farmers and producers. We’re also very grateful for the assistance we’ve received from the Government through Enterprise Ireland in the past as well as Bord Bia. Our new food centre will be a centre of excellence for food innovation which will drive quality, new products which will fit consumer lifestyles into the future” he continued.
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Worked in one of these dumps once, the monsodium glutamate was pumped in.
More good news. The recovery continues.
The recovery is certainly continuing if a company whose last accounts filed had a statement entered by its auditors that the assets of the company are less than half the amount of its called up share capital and that a convening of an EGM under the releveant section of the Companies Act is required – after showing an operating loss of almost €265,000.
For the local economy to benefit by €4 Million from 100 employees they would each have to be leaving work every Week with €769 after tax and going to the pub or shop and spending the lot.
And we wonder why our nation has an obesity epidemic
Yours was not the only comment deleted James, the media don’t like to rain on Dickie Bruton’s parade.
In the wake of the beef tribunal, what you describe regarding false labelling of consumer produce was something we were guaranteed could never happen again but we also had the horse meat scandal last year. I somehow doubt that all the regulations supposedly put in place in the wake of the tribunal are being rigidly adhered to and the fault lies squarely in the lap of the Minister for Agriculture, but then look at the positions his family members hold. Conflict of interest, do you think?
Thanks Martin. Correct on all counts.
I didn’t hid behind an anonymous account when making my comments, which I could have. And I gave a full and truthful account of our experience for that time.
I think the truth will hurt the “recovery” which why they want us all silent. Don’t rock the boat whatever you do!
Part of my comment which was deleted was a reference to Sports Direct, a company which doesn’t even operate in this jurisdiction so I don’t know why the Journal felt they had to remove it.
Anyway, have a look here http://worldsoccertalk.com/2015/04/28/watch-the-secrets-of-sports-direct-documentary-about-newcastle-owner-mike-ashleys-company/ and you’ll see that working practices broadly similar to what you described are employed here. As far as I know, the Tory government in the UK has done nothing to investigate the company but then it is rumoured that the owner is a major contributor to the Tory party, the champions of the zero hours contract on which over 90% of his employees operate.
Ashley works on a similar format of a certain billionaire in buying up bankrupt companies including some previously owned by himself , for next to nothing and relaunching them debt free,but the Tory government didn’t consider this merited investigation
when i was a small boy i dreamed of being a general operative …… but im not going to get my hopes up .. a lot of completion out there .. i better get back to the study so :)
Perhaps you could start be learning something about the rules of grammar and punctuation.
@Tap Solny,
Better still, start by learning Polish.
Be learning. By learning???people in glass boxes.
‘be learning’ oh the irony. :- )
Watch out everybody. The grammar police are in town.
Tap, you’re on the internet long enough now to be at least a purple belt. You should be past correcting people’s spelling mistakes.
Grandma police lol.
You do understand the The Journal are legally responsible for the comments we all make here. Why would they risk costly legal action for you to air your very serious but totally unsubstantiated claims against this company and named individuals?
The comment I was replying to was deleted.
It wasnt unsubstantiated. I contacted the Journal re: evidence. And it wasnt this company. It was Dunhill Cuisine in Waterford which is since wound up, in which the named party in above article was responsible for the day to day running of.
In fact I contacted the Journal about this individual before, and i seen comments from other ex-employees on other related articles.
People need to be informed of other employees past experience should they decide to apply for a job in one of these places.
An article about Apple jobs was on here a month or two back. Some people said it was good, others that the jobs were a load of shit. They gave their “unsubstantiated” reasons.
Other people were free to counter those with their experience.
Dont recall the comments being deleted for any “legal reasons”
Of course your claims are unsubstantiated. You haven’t presented any kind of evidence at all to support them. That’s the very definition of unsubstantiated. That doesn’t necessarily mean what you’re saying isn’t true, and it doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t have evidence to support your claim – it’s just a simple fact that you haven’t presented it along with your claims. Hence unsubstantiated.
Can you really not see the valid legal reasoning behind not allowing people to post allegations of seriously illegal activity against named individuals on a public website? Seriously? Put your anger aside for a second and think rationally about it. Why would the Journal want the hassle, expense and risk of dealing with that minefield? They’re a small online news service – they’re not investigative journalists. The Journal – and particularly the Journal’s comment section – is just the wrong place to go if you have serious allegations and you want to be a whistleblower.
Grigori, feel free to email the author to see if she received any evidence. I have medical records, payslips, her p45, witness testimony (my own, my partners, and other ex-employees) and emails to another director that were sent the time. A copy of which I sent to Christina.
At the time the authorities were notified but everyone done sweet f…all..
It’s not uncommon for people to use online forms, or journalists for that matter, to get the word out when State agencies fail in their duties. Only yesterday we had a woman do an opinion piece about her time in direct provision. We were supposed to take the claims as fact yet no “evidence” was provided.
But you are correct in that the Journal authors are not “investigative journalists”. Personally I class them as bloggers, as I see them republishing other peoples work, or talking about (rephrasing) other’s articles, or publishing articles pre-written by PR companies. I am surprised still though as most those as most have studied journalism.
However, the Journal is not a “small online news service”. They have one of the largest daily readerships in Ireland, recently surpassing traditional news sites. So with that comes the challenge to up their game in their reporting.
For example, they routinely republish inaccurate information. “€4 million for local economy” Did they ask for a break down, or just take it at face value?
The other day they had an article where they published a statement from the DAA claiming that “it’s the law” that passengers show their boarding pass when making purchases at Dublin Airport. No one at the Journal queried what the law was, or if it applied to all goods or some (alcohol & tobacco)
It was only when other outlets started saying that it’s not necessary did they expand their article. And even then it still doesn’t say passengers are not required to present their cards, unless purchasing alcohol or tobacco. You have to read between the lines.
The Journal, for most of the day, inferred you had present your boarding pass, as they just took the word of the DAA official, but others Journalists actually queried further.
Look at the difference in these two articles and tell me I’m wrong:
http://www.thejournal.ie/boarding-pass-airport-2266694-Aug2015/
I worked for a frozen food company a few times, they get an employment agency to employ people for them but they employ so many people the recruitment agency that no one had more than a days work per 2 to three weeks. They got paid for those on their books but those on their books were luck to get a couple of days work per month. It made me wonder if the factory paid the recruitment agency per head as it didn’t make sense being on their books with so many people and not enough work for everybody, it was crazy???
Michael, It would be worth your while to view the documentary I referenced above. You would see that something similar is operated there.
Lidyl, is this the posh spelling of Lidl
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Great News for the local economy
@Cllr Malachy Quinn,
You’re a gas man, how would a factory employing minimum wage foreigners won’t benefit the economy?
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