As part of Meath Enterprise Week 2017 – a weeklong series of enterprise events, workshops and seminars which took place across the county to celebrate and promote enterprise development we hosted a Business Breakfast in association with the excellent Ashbourne Chambers.

This event was held in the Pillo Hotel, Ashbourne and we were delighted to welcome a full house of local entrepreneurs and business people to celebrate and promote enterprise development in Meath.

Speakers for the morning were Eoighan Riardan of Tadgh Riordan Motors and Gary O’Meara – General Manager Meath Enterprise and Boyne Valley Food Innovation District.

Before we kicked off the presentations we enjoyed a lovely breakfast allowing for some introductions and networking.

Eoighan then took us through the latest developments in Hybrid vehicles from Toyata and shared with us some very interesting statistics on diesel engines and future projections for the adoption of hybrid engines.

We then got an opportunity to learn all about the Boyne Valley Food Innovation District, a hugely exciting project being developed by Gary O’Meara along with several strategic partners. This project centres around finding opportunities for Irish Food Companies in new markets, creating channels to these channels and scaling Food Companies to fulfil the contracts. It is an incredibly exciting project for the county and one to watch out for!

We wish to say a huge thank you to all attendees who supported this event and especially to Joe Gilitiane and Sandra Jameson of Ashbourne Chamber of Commerce who organised this event. We look forward to continuing our work with Ashbourne Chamber of Commerce to promote and develop enterprise in Meath.

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