Gleeson Group is a manufacturer and distributor of packaged beverage and confectionery products established in 1974. The organisation is owned by the Cooney family, lead by Managing Director Patrick Cooney. It has approximately 650 employees. The company has full national coverage through its 13 distribution  hubs. It also owns a large manufacturing plant

Process Manufacturing

Process manufacturing is the branch of manufacturing that is associated with formulas and manufacturing recipes, and can be contrasted with discrete manufacturing, which is concerned with bills of material and routing....

 located in Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary

Tipperary

Tipperary is a town and a civil parish in South Tipperary in Ireland. Its population was 4,415 at the 2006 census. It is also an ecclesiastical parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly, and is in the historical barony of Clanwilliam....

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History

The company was established in the late 1960s by the Gleeson family in Borrisoleigh

Borrisoleigh

Borrisoleigh is a small town in North Tipperary in Ireland. According to the 2006 census, the town has a population of 1,178. The parish, which encompasses , has a population of just 2,000--down from a high count of 7,000 taken in 1842, before the Potato Famine. It is in the barony of Kilnamanagh...

, County Tipperary. It was primarily a manufacturer of soft drinks and stout

Stout

Stout is a dark beer made using roasted malt or barley, hops, water and yeast. Stouts were traditionally the generic term for the strongest or stoutest porters, typically 7% or 8%, produced by a brewery....

 bottler. The company was sold to brothers Nicholas and Patrick Cooney in 1974. The Company’s first major expansion was its first Dublin depot, which was opened in 1976. The company gradually grew, acquiring wholesale companies across Ireland.

The Company's biggest acquisition to date has been the buy-out of United Beverages' business outside Dublin from Diageo

Diageo

Diageo plc is a global alcoholic beverages company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest producer of spirits and a major producer of beer and wine....

 in 2005. The Company has had further business with Diageo in August, 2010 when they acquired the Gilbey's Wines business from them, further expanding their portfolio.

Brands

The following list shows the notable brands that Gleeson Group produces:

• Tipperary Natural Mineral Water
  Tipperary Natural Mineral Water
  Tipperary Natural Mineral Water is an Irish brand of mineral water coming from a single source at Borrisoleigh, close to the Devil's Bit mountain in north County Tipperary, Ireland. Tipperary Water is part of Gleeson Group, an Irish-owned multinational company.-History:Tipperary Natural Mineral...
  
  
• Bavaria - Dutch Lager.
• Duvel
• Maredsous
  Maredsous
  Maredsous may refer to:*Maredsous *Maredsous Abbey, a Benedictine monastery at Denée near Namur in Belgium*Maredsous beer, an abbey beer brewed by Duvel Moortgat Brewery in Belgium...
  
  
• Vedett
• Menabrea
• Warsteiner
• Weihenstephaner