Cuisine De France Production Facility, Clondalkin, Republic of Ireland
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Cuisine de France is a producer of French breads and baked goods in the UK and Ireland. Headquartered in Dublin, the company has a mature distribution network in the UK through the Co-op, Spar, Nisa and Londis supermarket chains. It also distributes products across parts of the US having acquired the Otis Spunkmeyer brand in November 2006 for $250m. New project "The facility features a purpose-built centre of excellence."
On 20 September 2006 Cuisine de France announced a €180m investment to establish a 42,600m² facility on a 30-acre business park in Clondalkin, County Dublin. The facility features a purpose-built centre of excellence incorporating a research and development (R&D) centre, a customer visitor centre, a training academy, a state-of-the-art food manufacturing facility and distribution and central management functions. The facility created about 130 jobs over a five-year period. Enterprise Ireland, a government agency that supports Irish businesses, provided €4.85m for R&D and strategic development at the facility. Centre of excellence Construction of the facility began in late 2006 and was completed in 2008. The architect for the facility was Anthony Reddy and the consultant engineer was Malone O’Regan. The construction, using pre-stressed concrete units, was carried out by Bennett Construction. Project Management Group was involved in the planning and the environmental impact assessment in mid-2007. Environmental wastewater systems were installed by Environmental Piping Systems and AMi Designs of Bristol. New headquarters Cuisine De France moved to new state-of–the art headquarters at Grange Castle International Business Park in January 2009. |
  Expand ImageCuisine de France has over 500 product lines. |
