Gill Stedman speaks to Kieran Rumley about the impact of the pandemic on Irish Food and Drink SMEs.
More than half of top Irish food and drink SMEs anticipate a decline in sales revenues this year due to ongoing Covid-19 impacts on their businesses, according to research conducted by Love Irish Food.
The not-for-profit organisation, established in 2009 to help safeguard the future of Irish food and drink brands, found in a survey undertaken in Q2 and early Q3 of this year, that a third of its SME member brands expect sales to fall steeply (by more than 15%) in 2020, with 54% believe their sales value will be down overall while 41% of member brands expecting their business to be up, year on year, and with 5% seeing no change