Food Works Ireland

⭐Big News!⭐ Applications are open for Food Works 2025! Do you have a product, food technology solution or ingredient that has the potential to make a global impact? Food Works, Ireland’s leading investment accelerator programme for high-potential food and drink companies, is now accepting applications for its 2025 cohort. Combining the resources of Bord Bia - The Irish Food Board, Enterprise Ireland and Teagasc, Food Works has been a fundamental driver of innovation in the food sector in the last decade. The ten-month programme offers entrepreneurs the unique opportunity to access expert mentorship and development of an investor ready business plan, connect with potential investors and buyers as well as gain valuable marketing and production insights.  What are you waiting for? Apply for Food Works 2025 here - https://lnkd.in/e6qG2Jst #FoodWorks #Accelerator #Innovation #StartUps #Export #Food #Drink 2024 Companies - FemFuelz , Blynk+, Mór Taste , Eamon McLoughlin - Ireland West Distillery, Chimac, SomaTech Ltd, Fire&5th, Reso Health, ELEMENT Irish Whiskey - New Era Spirits

🚀 Calling all Food and Drink innovators - are you ready to take your food or beverage product to the next level? 🌟 Read how Food Works has supported businesses like Nobó, Grá Chocolates, and Zingibeer Ltd., and listen to testimonials from 2024 participants Mary (Fire&5th) and Kylie (FemFuelz). Applications for 2025 close on November 29th, 2024. Don’t miss out! #FoodWorks #FoodInnovation #InvestmentAccelerator 

A key benefit offered through the Food Works programme is the monthly 1-1 support from our Business Advisors, which helps start-ups scale their business. 🚀 Our extensive panel of experts work with each company individually, developing a tailored plan to help them achieve success. This year's panel of Business Advisors has included Jacquie Marsh, Joanna Walker, Kieran Fegan, and Alan Quane. Applications are now live for Food Works 2025 - check out the link below! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e6qG2Jst #FoodWorks #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #FoodStartups #Ireland #BusinessAdvisors #StartUpSupport

🎥 Hear from our Food Works alumni! 🌟 David McSharry of Hot Chip shares sound advice to start-up founders, on staying persistent in the face of challenges. 💪 Hot Chip, a Food Works 2022 company, started as a lockdown project producing premium cookie dough. Since then, the brand has since gone from strength to strength, securing: 🛒 Product distribution to 25+ retailers including Dunnes Stores, Tesco, Avoca, and Applegreen. 🤝 Collaborations with iconic brands such Coca Cola Zero Sugar, partnering during last year’s Christmas campaign!🎅 📈 Social media community growth of 11.1K (Instagram) and 74K likes (TikTok). 🍪Launch of a new product development last year - the Ready-To-Bake Cookie Dough Balls - into 80+ Tesco stores nationwide. Apply now for the Food Works 2025 programme, and take your food or drink business to the next level. 🚀 Applications are now open - check the link below! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e6qG2Jst #FoodWorks #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #FoodStartups #Ireland #BordBia #EnterpriseIreland #Teagasc #InvestorReady Enterprise Ireland Bord Bia - The Irish Food Board Teagasc

👉 Are you seeking guidance around key areas of your food or drink business strategy? A crucial component of the Food Works programme is the curated schedule of workshops, designed to address the specific areas in line with your business plan. Our panel of thought leaders and industry experts from across the food and drink sector deliver these strategic and practical sessions, to support you in building the blueprint for a robust and investor-ready plan. Workshop themes include: • 💰 Financial planning • 🛒 Retail and foodservice partnerships • 📱 Digital marketing • 📈 Investor training • 🌱 Sustainability 👉 Swipe to learn more about our workshops offered during the Food Works programme Applications are now open for Food Works 2025 - check the link below! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e6qG2Jst #FoodWorks #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #FoodStartups #Ireland #Workshops Bord Bia - The Irish Food Board Teagasc Enterprise Ireland

🤝 Meet Ken O'Shea of Reso Health - a company changing the future of workplace nutrition. Reso Health plays in the B2B food technology space, offering both hardware and software solutions for personalised nutrition. 🫗📱By combining its dispensing technology with an intuitive platform, it enables employees in the modern workplace to create a customised supplement drinks on-demand, everyday. One element of Reso Health’s journey on Food Works has been starting their rebranding project (accessed through Bord Bia - The Irish Food Board). We’re excited to see this launch soon, and can’t wait to follow the future of Ken, Dermot, and this innovative company! 🚀 Applications are now open for Food Works 2025 - link below 🔗👇 https://lnkd.in/e6qG2Jst #FoodWorks #Food #Drink #ResoHealth #FoodTechnology #B2B #PersonalisedNutrition #Export #StartUp

🥁🥁Introducing… … the inspiring people and products taking part in this year’s Food Works programme! 🎯 Reso Health, Ken O'Shea and Dermot O'Riordan. 🥃 New Era Spirits (Element Whiskey), Fionn Cox. 🍗 Chimac, Sofie Rooney. 🍯 Mór Taste, Felix Oster. 🍹 Fire&5th, Mary Maguire (née Sheahan) and Aonghus Maguire. 🍸 Ireland West Distillery (Shaker and Co), Eamon McLoughlin. 🏋🏼♀️ FemFuelz, Kylie O' Donoghue. 🍄 Blynk+, David Hartigan and Stephen Dillon. 🍄🟫 SomaTech Ltd, Tony Martin Callaghan. Applications are now open for Food Works 2025 - check the link below! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e6qG2Jst #FoodWorks #Accelerator #Innovation #StartUps #Food #Drink #FoodTechnology #Export #FoodIngredients Bord Bia - The Irish Food Board Enterprise Ireland Teagasc

🌟 What is Food Works? 🌟 Swipe to find out! Food Works is an investment accelerator programme for globally scalable, innovative food, beverage, and food technology solutions start-ups to become export-ready. 🚀 Since its inception, Food Works has partnered with over 120 food entrepreneurs, challenging and developing all areas of their business plans across an intensive ten-month programme. 🌍 At the cutting edge of entrepreneurship in Ireland, the programme aims to drive business growth and success in export markets, leveraging the expertise of Bord Bia - The Irish Food Board, Enterprise Ireland, and Teagasc. We welcome applicants from all areas of food and drink – from food technology and food ingredients start-ups to consumer products for supermarket shelves and the food service channel. Applications are now open for Food Works 2025 - link below 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e6qG2Jst #FoodWorks #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #FoodStartups #Ireland #BordBia #EnterpriseIreland #Teagasc #InvestorReady #BusinessGrowth #ExportMarkets

📆 Save the date: Food Matters Live Dublin. Taking place on the 5th and 6th November at Croke Park, Dublin, Food Matters Live is the first event of its kind for Ireland featuring an exciting and varied programme, including Food Works alumni: 👩🎓Dr Leonie Lynch, Founder Juspy 👨🎓Dermot O'Riordan, Co-Founder & COO Reso Health 👩🎓Niamh Dooley, COO BiaSol and Circular Food Co 👨🎓Dr. Conor Kerley, Founder & Chief Scientific Officer Phytaphix 🤝Alongside speakers from the three Food Works agencies, David Kennedy at Bord Bia - The Irish Food Board, Mark Christal at Enterprise Ireland and Shay Hannon at Teagasc. The event will feature discussions on sustainable sourcing, positive nutrition, emerging technology and how mega-trends are impacting food ingredient innovation alongside a tastes of better programme which invites guests to explore new applications, tastes, textures, and mouthfeel of innovative ingredients. 🎟️ Food and drink manufacturers can attend free of charge, and delegate passes are available too. To preview the event and find out how to attend, click the link below! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ehBSKqx3 #Innovation #FoodMattersLive

Super to see the Naked Bakes rebrand come to fruition! Congratulations to Food Works 2023 participant, Aisling Tuck, on this striking new brand and its launch into Lidl last week.   Exciting times ahead for Naked Bakes!   Aisling accessed this brand consultancy service through Bord Bia - The Irish Food Board, as part of her involvement on the Food Works programme. To unlock access to these benefits among many more, Apply now for the Food Works 2025 programme at the link below: https://lnkd.in/e6qG2Jst