Origin Enterprises plc

Public limited company

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is an Irish

Republic of Ireland

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 food and agribusiness

Agribusiness

In agriculture, agribusiness is a generic term for the various businesses involved in food production, including farming and contract farming, seed supply, agrichemicals, farm machinery, wholesale and distribution, processing, marketing, and retail sales....

 group majority owned by Swiss/Irish

Ireland

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 food company Aryzta. It is listed on the Irish Enterprise Exchange

Irish Enterprise Exchange

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 (IEX) and the Alternative Investment Market

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.

History

Origin was established by the IAWS Group in 2006 focus on the original agribusiness and food and nutrition businesses of IAWS. It was admitted to the IEX and AIM on 5 June 2007 http://www.originenterprises.ie/pdf/Origin_Enterprises_Pricing_Announcement.pdf. IAWS (now Aryzta) retained a majority shareholding.

Its food industry holdings include Shamrock Foods, Odlums Group

Odlums Group

Odlums Group is an Irish food processing and marketing company owned entirely by Origin Enterprises, itself a subsidiary of the IAWS Group, all of Dublin...

, and Roma Foods.

Products

Shamrock Foods markets numerous types of tinned and dried fruits and vegetables, snack foods, baking products, and staple cereals and pulses under the Shamrock name. Odlums Group, the largest cereal milling company in Ireland, manufactures and retails a number of products under the Odlums name as well as McCann's Steel Cut Irish Oatmeal

McCann's Steel Cut Irish Oatmeal

McCann's Steel Cut Irish Oatmeal is an Irish brand of oatmeal that is sold internationally. It consists of steel-cut oats rather than rolled oats.-History:In 1800, John McCann built a mill at Beamond, County Meath, near Drogheda...

. Roma foods which manufactures Roma, is Ireland's top selling pasta brand, also produces a line of quick meals.

Origin Enterprises subsidiaries

Agribusiness holdings include:

• R&H Hall
  R&H Hall
  R&H Hall plc is Ireland's biggest importer and supplier of animal feed ingredients for feed manufacturing through its extensive trading, purchasing, shipping and storage capability.-Company history:...
  
  
• Goulding Chemicals
  Goulding Chemicals
  Goulding Chemicals Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of IAWS Group plc and has been operating since 1856. It was run for decades by the Goulding family that included Valerie Goulding...
  
  
• Masstock Smart Farming
• IAWS Fertilisers (United Kingdom) Limited
• IAWS Fertilisers (Northern Ireland) Limited
• P.B. & Kent Company

Marine proteins production holdings include:

• United Fish Industries (UFI)
• United Fish Products (UFP)
• Shetland Fish Products (SFP)

Food production holdings include:

• Shamrock Foods
• Odlums Group
  Odlums Group
  Odlums Group is an Irish food processing and marketing company owned entirely by Origin Enterprises, itself a subsidiary of the IAWS Group, all of Dublin...
  
  
• Roma Foods

External links

• Origin Enterprises official website