Meath Enterprise in collaboration with Meath Chambers, was delighted to award Hugh Maguire with an award in recognition of his huge achievement in winning the Supreme Champion Award at the 2017 Great Taste Awards in London for his smoked black pudding at our #MEW2017 Business Conference & Expo on the 16^th November in the Knightsbrook Hotel in Trim. An audience of over 400 people applauded as Hugh received his award from Manager of Meath Enterprise Gary O’Meara.

The audience were then fortunate enough to get the opportunity to hear Hugh being interviewed by our MC for the day Brian Purcell. He described his huge shock at receiving the Great Taste award and the very positive impact it has had on his business. Hugh Maguire Butchers/ The Smokin Butcher are currently in the process of developing new products that we will see on our shelves in the near future! Hugh also told us about all his traveling and how it influenced his award-winning pudding leading to a truly unique taste. 

Hugh shared with us the news that he has recently purchased a new space in Navan from which to scale his business so we sincerely wish Hugh, his wife Caroline and his children the best of luck going forward and we look forward to celebrating more award wins with him in the future.

A small bit of information on Meath Enterprise. Our goals are to-

• To establish business clusters by providing infrastructure to enable new and existing businesses to scale and succeed.
• To facilitate enterprise development, collaboration and innovation through effective learning, mentoring and networking.
• To collaborate with local, regional and national bodies to drive entrepreneurship, innovation and business development.

We manage an 85,000 sq. foot facility in Navan which is home to new and existing businesses across multiple sectors such as food, digital and tech. We also manage a 25,000-sq. foot high spec office space in Kells which will become the home of the new international Technology Startup and Scale up Hub known as Kells Tech. Meath Enterprise is proposing to develop the Navan Digital Hub alongside the existing Meath Enterprise Centre in Navan. The proposed Boyne Valley Food Innovation District is being project managed by Meath Enterprise. The BVFID aims to be to food what Silicon Valley is to technology. Our purpose is to facilitate the scalable expansion of new and existing food companies to exploit the global opportunity in the food sector by providing guidance, support, resources and facilities which will enable economic and social benefits for Ireland at a regional and national level.

For more information on Meath Enterprise please contact us-

info@meathenterprise.ie

www.meathenterprise.ie

+353 46 9073753