16|Retail News|June 2015|www.retailnews.ie
Industry News WINNING STREAK RETURNS
A NEW season of Europe’s longest running TV game show, the National Lottery’s Winning Streak game show, is back on our screens from June 20 on RTÉ One. Scratch Cards for the RTÉ favourite, once again hosted by Marty Whelan and Sinead Kennedy, are available now in National Lottery agent stores nationwide for just €3. This new season is Winning Streak’s 26th year, and gives not one but two players the life-changing opportunity to spin the iconic Winning Streak Grand Prize Wheel and win up to half a million euro each. One Golden Spin symbol will be hidden at random in the Wheel Reveal game and if a player is lucky enough to reveal the Golden Spin during the game, they automatically get to spin the Grand Prize Wheel at the end of the show. “Since Winning Streak began in September 1990, the National Lottery show has been enhancing the lives of Irish players, with over €157m in cash, cars and holidays given away so far,’ commented Dermot Griffin, CEO, National Lottery, pictured with Sinead Kennedy and Marty Whelan.
Keogh’s Launch New Multipack Teeling Whiskey KEOGH’s hosted a Keogh’s Farm Perfect Picnic Distillery Opens event recently at the Avila Carmelite Centre Orchard, Donnybrook, where they launched a new Multipack of crisps just in time for picnic season. Its Doors The new Keogh’s Multipack brings together three of their fans’ most loved flavours in one pack: two Dubliner Cheese and Onion, two Atlantic Sea Salt and Irish Cider Vinegar and two Roast Beef and Irish Stout. Share-size bags and individual packets are also available and perfect for smaller picnics or even for a snack in the car on the way to your perfect picnic destination. Keogh’s recently found that sunshine and crisps make for a perfect picnic combination, when they surveyed almost 1,500 Irish people about Ireland’s favourite picnic habits. For further information on the Keogh’s #PerfectPicnic campaign and new Keogh’s Multipack, visit www.keoghs.ie.
Tesco and Bord Bia Open UK Door for Irish Firms EIGHTEEN Irish food and drink companies recently visited the UK to discuss opportunities with Tesco UK stores. Now in its fourth year, the annual trip is organised as part of Taste Bud, the Tesco supplier development programme run in partnership with Bord Bia. Participating suppliers are hand-picked by Bord Bia and Tesco Ireland and the trip involves one-to-one meetings with key Tesco UK grocery buyers and the opportunity to showcase products to the wider Tesco UK team. “The purpose of this trip is to support these companies through the process of getting their produce from Ireland onto the shelves of Tesco UK stores,” noted John Paul O’Reilly, Commercial Director, Tesco Ireland. “We are seeing an increased demand for quality Irish produce in the UK, and through our Taste Bud programme, we continue to give Irish producers the opportunity to export to the UK and our other international markets.” Pictured on the UK trip are James Flahavan, Manager, and John Noonan, Sales & Marketing Director, Flahavan’s.
THE Teeling Whiskey Company (TWC) has officially opened its brand new distillery and visitor centre in The Liberties, Dublin. The €10m distillery is the first in Dublin in over 125 years and the only fully operational distillery in the city at present. As well as a fully functioning distillery, there is a state-of-the-art visitor centre which will host whiskey tasting tours, a café, a bar, a private event space for hire and a gift shop. Founded by Jack Teeling in 2012, TWC was set up to revive his familyold trademark of Irish whiskey and bring distilling back to Dublin, where Walter Teeling had a distillery on Marrowbone Lane in the 18th century. The opening of this new distillery means that TWC has complete control of all aspects of its whiskey production, from grain to bottle. The Teeling Whiskey Company is run by Jack (right), together with his brother Stephen (left), pictured in the new distillery. See www.TeelingWhiskey.com for more information.
SuperValu Honours Excellence in Food Microbiology THE SuperValu Award for Excellence in Food Microbiology has been presented to Damhan Scully at a ceremony in UCC. The award, which is now in its second year, is an acknowledgement by SuperValu of the vital contribution UCC makes to primary food research. As part of the award, Damhan will receive a bursary of €2,000 to continue his research. Damhan has also recently been awarded a Walsh Scholarship to undertake his PhD research jointly with UCC and Teagasc later this year in the area of food safety. Pictured are: Norma Twomey, Food Safety & Quality Team, SuperValu; Ray Bowe, Head of Food Safety & Quality, SuperValu; Lucy O’Connor and Maureen O’Mahony, Food Safety & Quality Team, SuperValu; award winner Damhan Scully; Professor Colin Hill, Head of Microbial Food Safety, UCC; and Professor Gerald Fitzgerald, Head of UCC’s School of Microbiology.