Fresh food you will love
From your local fields to your local Tesco. We will continue our commitment to bring customers the highest standards in fresh food. And what could be fresher than locally produced? The quality and variety of Irish food is great - that's why we buy more of it than anyone else and why locally produced food will always have a home at Tesco.
Leo Dunne
Carrots are good for the eyesight, or so the old saying goes. Little wonder that Leo has been the winner of the "Grower of the Year" award, having such an eye for quality. Even as a child he was weeding, thinning and canning carrots on his father's farm. Working with his wife, Bernadette and son Emmett they employ 28 people to ensure quick delivery of carrots from field to shelf. They have been supplying Tesco since 1997.
David Rodgers
You can't beat a good spud and David should know! In 2006 David won the "Potato Grower of the year" award and he was one of the finalists in 2007. He also received the "Nature's Choice Awards" in 2006 & 2007. David now also supplies onions to Tesco from his farm where he lives with wife Leyna and their three children Derek, Barry and Gordon. Let's hope they follow him into farming too!
Peter Whyte
Peter grows a full 300 acres of potatoes for Tesco, whom he has been supplying since 1997. Luckily he has five sons of his own as he needs all the hands he can get to run his large, mixed farming, farm. Peter says that "in farming nowadays, you have to be constantly evolving and progressing the business" and his aim is to bring innovation in farming to the next generation, his own family.
Paul Carroll
For over 60 years Paul's family have been growing salad crops in North County Dublin and the love of the land shows in the crops he produces. With 150 acres set aside for scallion production for Tesco and a hundred employees to process the crops it is a full time job keeping one step ahead of the Irish weather to get the best from the land.
Spicer's
Spicer's can be found in 54 of our stores. They are a wholly Irish owned family company who have been involved in baking for 175 years. In fact, their first bread left the ovens in Navan, Co. Meath back 1880. They have been supplying traditional quality oven crusted bread throughout the Leinster region for many generations. Not only are they an Irish business, they're a family institution, with the current managing director being the sixth 'John Spicer' to take the helm!
More Irish producers
Galway Eggs, Claregalway, Co. Galway.
John Purcell, Organic beef farmer, Cahir,
Co. Tipperary.
