456
Origin Green Member Companies
317 Verified Members
Progress to date...
These programmes are monitored annually and independently verified by international specialists Mabbett. To date, our verified member companies have set over 2,400 sustainability targets demonstrating their commitment to improving the sustainability and environmental footprint of their businesses.
The Origin Green Progress Report shows that in a five-year period, food manufacturers delivered an 11% reduction in energy use per unit of output and a 17% reduction in water use per unit of output. They donated 4,717 tonnes of surplus food to FoodCloud, planted 9,261 trees on manufacturing sites and donated over €8m to community and charity organisations.
During 2019, a further 250 + companies were in the process of attending workshops and preparing sustainability plans to become verified members of Origin Green.
Some of our Manufacturer Members
Castletownbere Fishermen’s Co-Op, based in the southwest coast of Ireland was founded in 1968. The Co-Op lands high quality seafood direct from its own fleet of fishing trawlers with a staff of 70 people.
Established over three decades ago, the Foyle Food Group has a long-standing history of supplying quality beef to leading retailers, manufacturers, foodservice providers, and butchers in Europe and around the world.
HEINEKEN Ireland is a leading brewer of premium beers and ciders. Rooted in Cork’s Leitrim Street Brewery for over 160 years, being a green brewer and a sustainable business is critical to HEINEKEN’s next 160 years.
Origin Green collaborates with over 53,000 farms and 320 leading Irish food and drink companies to prove and improve the sustainability of the food they produce to meet the evolving needs of global customers and consumers. Verified Origin Green members account for 90% of our food and drink exports and over 70% of the retail market. Becoming an Origin Green member means that your organisation will have the tools to produce food and drink in a sustainable manner now and into the future.