Local suppliers

Our relationships with local suppliers have helped raise the standard of community shopping

While our primary mission is to make sure our retail partners can deliver freshness and value to their customers, we’ve always tried to do this by supporting local businesses that help drive employment and build vibrant sustainable communities.

On behalf of our retail partners in Supervalu and Centra 75 per cent of everything we source is either produced by or sourced from Irish suppliers. This represents a commitment of more than €2.6 billion to Irish suppliers. As a consequence, we support more than 600 Irish supplier companies and over 14,000 jobs indirectly. Likewise, in Britain our Budgens stores support a wide range of local food initiatives – for example, the Taste of Sussex programme.

Our focus is always on long-term relationships. This is why we’re working with Enterprise Ireland on the First Sale programme to enable start-up food companies to develop sustainable businesses.