Ireland’s food businesses with an appitete for growth [Video]

BusinessPlus.ie looks back at some of the successful Irish food businesses that have featured on the site and in the magazine over the past 25 years.

One of the most inspiring food business success stories in the Business Plus archives has to be Glenilen Farm, a dairy products venture built up by former dairy farmers Alan Kingston and his wife Valerie.

When the couple started making yoghurt as a hobby in 1998, they had no idea the extent to which the venture would take over their lives.

“We never had the intention of building a business from it,” Alan Kingston told Business Plus in September 2019.

“We just wanted to try a bit of milk processing at a home kitchen level.”

Located in Drimoleague in deepest west Cork, Glenilen Farm makes very good yoghurt. So much so that the business has kept on growing and growing since, driven in recent years by product …