Northern Irish Food & Drink Companies Selling at a Loss to Capture Market Share

DUBLIN, Ireland - The “Food & Drink - Portfolio Analysis Northern Ireland” is a comprehensive evaluation of the UK market. The revised and updated 2007 edition analyses the financial performance of the companies important to the success of your business. Using the most up to date information available, the analysis is ideal both as a tool to benchmark your own company’s results and to study the market in more depth. Aimed at the busy manager, the Portfolio Analysis is both quick and easy to use thanks to the unique visual layout. The Analysis lays bare the performance of each company highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. Do you know which companies are best to do business with? Do you know which companies are selling at a loss and whose profit margins are plummeting? Find out the answers to all these questions and more with the newly published Portfolio Analysis.

The report is divided into two colour-coded sections for your ease of use, Sector Analysis and Individual Company Analysis.

Sector Analysis: Sales growth, market share and profitability are all analysed over a 10 year period giving you the fullest picture possible of the health of the market. Companies are ranked on these categories so you can see which companies are outshining the rest. Use the industry average tables to benchmark your own company’s performance- how do you compare to the rest of the industry?

Industry Analysis: Each company receives a full page of analysis, evaluating their financial performance over the last five years so you get a full picture of the long term prospects of each company. Each company page of analysis is also packed with the following information: Full business name and address, Names and ages of directors, contact details and website address, seven unique charts showing at a glance the performance of each company, averages for the industry are also shown indicating the bare minimum each company should be looking to achieve, and five years of the latest accounts available,

Over the past 12 months in your industry:

21% of companies are now in financial danger.
20 companies are blatantly selling at a loss to capture market share.
Average pre-tax profit was 2.1%
Average sales growth was 5.2%
190 companies are analysed including:

Prm Haulage Ltd

Prm Ireland Ltd

Provincial Butchers Supplies NI Ltd

R F Canners (Ulster) Ltd

R J Kerr (Ballymena) Ltd

R Thompson & Son (Armagh) Ltd

R & H (Holdings) Ltd

R & J Foods Ltd

Regal Processors Ltd

Rockall Seafoods Ltd

S & M Meats Ltd

Snowcap Frozen Foods Ltd

Spices Nice Ltd

Strathroy Dairy Ltd

T S Foods Ltd

Take N’bake Ltd

Tayto (NI) Ltd

Tenderlean Meats Ltd

Thomas Hutchinson & Sons Ltd

Townview Foods Ltd

Treetops Holding Company

Tri-Sum Snacks Ltd

U-Bake Ltd

Ulster Farm By-Products Ltd

Vanstar Meats Ltd

Variety Foods (NI) Ltd

W D Meats Ltd

W J Shaw & Sons Ltd

W Mcgrattan & Sons Ltd

W Middleton & Son (NI) Ltd

W & R Jacob & Co (Northern Ireland) Ltd

Wafer Enterprises Ltd

Wardell Roberts (NI) Ltd

Wardell Roberts (UK) Ltd

Whelans (NI) Ltd

William Gallagher Food Processors Ltd

William Sprott (Portadown) Ltd

Woodwin (Catering) Ltd