Leading Food Businesses Shine At Cork County Council’s Enterprise Awards In West Cork
The ‘Best in Cork’ Awards for West Cork Revealed
A company that produces gluten-free cakes, a leading chain of artisan pizzerias and a new business that helps secondary students improve their exam results have been named as the best businesses in West Cork. Cork County Council hosted the third and final Best in Cork divisional awards at a special event in the Celtic Ross Hotel in Rosscarbery.
Best Small Business went to Wildberry Bakery. The family run gluten-free bakery in Ballineen uses quality ingredients to create a delicious range of cakes that are available across the island of Ireland. It serves the retail and food service industry and also works with companies such as Dunnes Stores to create their own label products.
The Clonakilty headquartered Oak Fire Pizza was named Best Medium Business. It was established in 2015 and now employs 70 full and part-time employees across its chain of five restaurants and production unit in West Cork.
Simple Study picked up the Best Start-up award. The Rosscarbery-based business uses adaptive learning, gamification and AI to help secondary school students improve their exam results in more than 37 subjects. It launched in November 2022 and reached 22,000 students in its first year.
Skibbereen transport company, Dave Long Coach Travel, was the runner up in the Best Small Business category; Sheenco Travel, an international travel company based in Skibbereen, was the Best Medium Business runner up; with Kinsale based Wizard & Grace Essential Oil Candles the runner up Best Start-up.
The three winners and three runners up will now go on to represent West Cork at the overall Best in Cork awards set to take place at Cork County Hall in January.
The Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Frank O’Flynn said,
Chief Executive of Cork County Council, Valerie O’Sullivan added,