Welcome to Food and Drink Export Ireland, a division of the Irish Exporters Association - the representative body for exporters in Ireland.

Food and Drink Export Ireland aims to assist food and drink companies to grow, develop and gain new export markets and also provides an excellent base for networking among food and drink companies.

Our mission is to help Irish food companies access international markets through seeking:
- Maximum Government support to help businesses find new markets and develop existing ones.
- The removal of barriers that impede Irish companies when attempting to access overseas markets.
- The elimination of risk in transacting international business.
- The provision of training programmes such as Channel Clusters* to assist companies scaling up for export.
- Regular networking events

The Food and Drink Export Ireland website is full of hundreds of news stories and information that's relevant to food and drink exporters, including latest news and links to up-to-date press articles, information on our training programmes and seminars and the IEA's Food and Drink Council.

Food and Drink Export Ireland is currently running two programmes:

The Channel Clusters Programme* is a development programme that runs over 12 months and provides a complete package of assistance to food companie, including extensive mentoring, group workshops, exhibition participation, study tours and export sales advice.

The Celtic Recipes Programme is a 3 day programme designed to identify, develop and share best marketing practice with Irish Food and drink manufacturer. The programme is tailored to each SME’s specific rewuirements and the three days of mentoring can be spread over 6 to 8 weeks depending on the SME’s requirements. Both programmes are run by industry experts, selected by the IEA.

*The Channel Clusters Programme is an Ireland Wales European Regional Development project made possible through a financial contribution from the European Regional Development Fund Ireland Wales (INTERREG 4A) Programme 2007-2013. This article reflects the views of the author only and not those of the Programme Authorities.