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Food & Drink Category 2024 / Winner

Oishii Foods
Oishii Foods Winner in the Food & Drink category

Oishii Foods Ltd is a Japanese inspired food producer that makes delicious fresh, ready to eat sushi for the chilled convenience retail category. Our retail customer base includes many of the top retailers in Ireland and Northern Ireland including Lidl, Tesco, Dunnes Stores, Musgrave Group, Applegreen and independent stores. Oishii Foods is the largest sushi producer in the Irish retail market. Our mission has always been to satisfy customers’ needs with delicious, convenient options for lunch, dinner & snacking occasions. Oishii brings great value and alternative choices to the chilled convenience sector and offers this value proposition in a variety of pack formats & price points.

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Food & Drink Category 2024 / Highly Commended

Burren Smokehouse
Burren Smokehouse Finalist in the Food & Drink, Exporter of the Year and Sustainability categories

Burren Smokehouse is a family-owned artisan smokehouse operating in food tourism offering experiences B2C and B2B, retail in our visitor centre and ecommerce B2C with a database of 10,000 private mail-order customers. The wholesale business operates in Ireland to independent retail like Fallon & Byrne, multiples like Dunnes Stores and Simply Better food service, to hotels like Ashford Castle, The Merrion Hotel and The Marker Hotel. Some wholesale is for export to independent retailers and food service. Sustainability is core to the Burren Smokehouse that source 100% Irish organic salmon, mackerel, trout, and eel for smoking and have achieved numerous product awards. Celebrating 35 years in business. Certified by Origin Green and Burren Code of Practice.

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Food & Drink Category 2024 / Finalists

Hx46 Café and pan Asian Casual Dining
Hx46 Café and pan Asian Casual Dining Finalists in the Food & Drink category

Established in 2013 at 46 Harold’s Cross Road, HX46 is a recognized culinary destination specializing in Thai and Asian fusion cuisine. Our commitment to excellence is evident in a varied menu, offering morning coffee and pastries to satisfying lunches and dinners and at weekends tempting brunch and traditional Irish breakfast. With streamlined takeaway, delivery services, and an intuitive online ordering system, convenience is prioritized. Expanding to Goatstown and Rathfarnham, our fourth restaurant in Dean’s Grange opened in November 2023. From a modest start with three staff, we now employ over thirty-five, serving thousands of satisfied customers weekly across our four locations.

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HYDE Irish Whiskey
HYDE Irish Whiskey Finalists in the Food & Drink and Exporter of the Year categories

HYDE Irish Whiskey is a premium range of multi award winning Irish whiskey matured and ‘finished’ to perfection in the idyllic landscape and temperate climate of West Cork, Ireland. The Hyde family has been involved in bonding fine Irish whiskey for over ten generations, since 1640, at the Hyde family pub at “Tinker’s Cross”, just outside Bandon, West Cork, Ireland. HYDE hand-select only the very finest oak casks from around the world to give each HYDE Irish Whiskey its distinct taste and character. The focus is on the art of wood management and cask maturation to create Irish whiskey which is rich in character and unique in taste. HYDE Irish Whiskey – A true taste of Ireland.

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Loughran Brewing Stores
Loughran Brewing Stores Finalist in the Food & Drink and Exporter of the Year categories

Loughran Brewing Stores delivers hops, malt, yeast and other brewing ingredients to brewers throughout Ireland, the UK and Europe. We work with suppliers and producers from around the world who share our values of quality-first farming and care for the environment through pioneering sustainability practices. This includes Crosby Hops™ and Indie Hops of Oregon, USA, Hop Revolution™ of New Zealand, Germany’s BESTMALZ, Belgium’s Castle Malting®, and even our own family barley farm in Dundalk. Ingredients from Loughran Brewing Stores help brewers from the likes of Whiplash, Wicklow Wolf, Galway Bay, DEYA, Northern Monk and Verdant brew some of the best beer on the market.

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Murphy's Ice Cream
Murphy's Ice Cream Finalist in the Food & Drink category

At Murphy’s we make real Irish ice cream - from scratch. We have been making it naturally, locally and truthfully in Dingle since 2000. Good ice cream is about feeling good and we want to make memorable flavours that put a smile on your face. We don’t use colourings, flavourings or powdered milk - we prefer the real thing - and that starts with Kerry cow milk, fresh from the farm, lots of local cream, free range eggs and organic sugar. Then we toast, simmer, bake and extract real ingredients. We caramelize McCambridges brown bread for our Irish Brown Bread ice cream; we add Teelings small batch whiskey to make our Chocolate Whiskey ice cream. We’re so fussy we even make our own sea salt from Dingle sea water for our Dingle Sea Salt ice cream. We do all this to make it hopefully the best ice cream you’ve ever tasted. Most of all we make it to be enjoyed, shared and savoured.

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Be contacted in September, when applications are open for 2025