About Us

At Musgrave MarketPlace we’re proud to be the only 100% Irish owned national foodservice wholesaler. Over 140 years ago the Musgrave family set out values to guide their business and six generations later these values are still at the core of who we are. We believe in building long term stable relationships, not being greedy, honesty, working hard and achievement. And because of these values, we’re committed to supporting Irish jobs and sourcing from local suppliers, helping local charities, building a more sustainable future and investing in our future food leaders.

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Supporting jobs in Ireland

We care about growing a strong local economy and we’re committed to supporting Irish jobs and sourcing from local suppliers. That’s why we directly employ over 1200 people locally and support over 680 Irish companies, spending over €430m with them annually, through our Irish supplier network.

We are also dedicated to giving small local producers the help and support they need to grow their businesses through our FoodService Academy.
Charity + Community

Helping local charities and supporting our communities whenever we can, is very important to us. Together with our colleagues, partners and the generosity of the Irish people, we’ve helped raise over €200,000 for local charities over the past 4 years.

And through our partnership with FoodCloud, we have helped provide quality, fresh food to some of the most vulnerable people in our communities by donating over 500,000 meals, with a value of over €700,000, to local charities.
Sustainability

We are committed to doing everything we can to build a more sustainable future. That’s why we’re:

Increasing the number of small, local suppliers we source our products from by 25% by 2020.

Investing in new eco-friendly refrigeration systems.

Reducing our carbon footprint by maximising our route efficiencies.

Printing on FSC certified paper.

And moving towards all our Irish meat and fresh produce being Origin Green certified by 2020.
Supporting Ireland’s Food Leaders

We believe in supporting the Irish food industry and we prioritise investing in Ireland’s Future Food Leaders. We have donated €350,000, through our long-term partnership with TU Dublin. Our donation is supporting TU Dublin to create a European Centre of Culinary Excellence through; their new state-of-the-art student training restaurant, due to open Autumn 2020, 8 annual student bursaries and 4 PhD students.

Our partnership with Chef Network supports food leadership through a series of Chef Skills Masterclasses on key trends, delivered by some of our country’s leading chefs.

We support farming excellence by ensuring that all our fresh beef and lamb is 100% Irish and Bord Bia approved.

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1876

Thomas and Stuart Musgrave open a grocery business in Cork.

1960’s

Ireland’s first wholesale Cash & Carry opens in Cork.

The first custom built Cash & Carry opens in Limerick.

The country’s first large surface area Cash & Carry opens at Robinhood in Dublin.

1977

Musgrave opens a Cash & Carry in Ballymun.

1983

Musgrave opens a 7,500 M2 Cash & Carry in Belfast.
1992

Lee’s Cash & Carry in Sallynoggin is acquired. Musgrave now has three Cash & Carry’s in Dublin.

A new purpose built outlet opens in Derry City. Musgrave now has eight large surface area Cash & Carry’s throughout the country.

1997

Musgrave Cash & Carry launches the day-today retail support package.

1998

Cash & Carry developing the foodservice sector with two strategic acquisitions (Maxwell’s and O’Connor & Toal).

Musgrave acquires Fanning’s Cash & Carry in Waterford.
2001

Musgrave Wholesale Partners launches a delivered multi-temperature foodservice's business serving Dublin and Leinster.

2004

Musgrave Wholesale Partners acquires C & R foods.

2005

Musgrave Wholesale Partners acquires Variety Foods.

2008

Musgrave Wholesale Partners re-brands its business to focus on: Daybreak, Musgrave FoodServices and Musgrave MarketPlace.

2009

Musgrave Wholesale Partners announced the re-launch of Cash & Carry in Robinhood, Dublin and re-branded it as Musgrave MarketPlace with an investment of €1.5 million.
2010

Daybreak Opens 27 New Stores in 2010.

Musgrave Wholesale Partners announce a €1 million investment in the Tuam Road MarketPlace Cash & Carry.

2011

Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan T.D., Opens Musgrave MarketPlace Limerick following a €1 million Investment.

2012

Musgrave Wholesale Partners Invests €2 million In New Waterford Cash & Carry site.

Daily Basics launches in Daybreak Stores Nationwide.
2013

Musgrave Wholesale Partners signs a contract worth €6 million over three years to supply chilled, frozen and ambient foods to Debenhams Ireland.

2014

Musgrave Wholesale Partners announce the acquisition of the foodservice division of Allied Foods.

Musgrave Wholesale Partners Invests €8 million in New Multi-Temperature Delivery Fleet.

Musgrave Wholesale Partners wins Top H&S Award in Retail/Wholesale for 2014.

2015

Musgrave Wholesale Partners announce decision to relocate Delivered Foodservice and Retail business into a central warehouse located in Blanchardstown Corporate Business Park.

Musgrave Wholesale Partners win ‘Retail/Wholesale’ category for 2015 at the 24th Annual NISO/NISG Safety Awards.
2016

Musgrave Wholesale Partners announce the acquisition of the foodservice division of CJ O’Loughlin.

NISO Safety Award in the Retail/Wholesale category for the third year in a row.

Re-launch of Ballymun Cash & Carry with an Investment of €2.2 million.

2017

Musgrave launch the Chipmongers foodservice franchise brand, which offers a modern take on the traditional 'Irish Chipper'.

Musgrave Wholesale Partners announce £1.1m upgrade of Duncrue Cash & Carry.

Musgrave Wholesale Partners unveil €2.5m upgrade Of Robinhood branch.

2018

Musgrave Wholesale Partners announce the acquisition of La Rousse Foods.

Re-launch of Cork Cash & Carry with an Investment of €2.5 million.