Empowering Irish Food & Drink Businesses to Grow, Export, and Scale Internationally

Yvonne Scully, MBS (TCD), MBA (UCD), is a Business Consultant and Export Specialist with deep expertise in helping Food and Drink start-ups and SMEs grow, secure funding, and expand into international markets. With a background in Finance and Investment Banking, and over 15 years supporting high-potential producers across Ireland and Northern Ireland, Yvonne combines strategic insight with hands-on industry experience.

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Ready to Grow Beyond Ireland

The Export Sales and Technical Development Programme for Food & Drink Companies helps ambitious food & drink companies to generate more leads, sales, and revenue through structured export training, expert mentoring, and direct access to international buyers.

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Yvonne Scully & Associates works with pre-start up, start up and growing companies, predominantly in the Irish Food and Drink Industry, at every stage of business right the way through from Generating a Business Idea to Export strategies.

As well as working with a broad range of food companies directly, YSA works with several state agencies: Enterprise Ireland, InterTradeIreland, Bord Bia and Local Enterprise Offices to provide consultancy services, deliver workshops and mentoring to their clients.

Training is provided by fully qualified and experienced consultants through workshops and training programmes to groups and one-to-one consultancy and mentoring.

Yvonne Scully is an appointed mentor and consultant for clients of Enterprise Ireland and several Local Enterprise Offices.

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What We Do

  • Business Feasibility Studies and Market Launches
  • Consumer and Market Research
  • Sales and Marketing Plans
  • Export Development Plans
  • Business Strategy and Business Planning
  • Sales Growth Plans, Cost Plus Pricing Models and Financial Forecasts
  • Funding, Investor Readiness, Grant Support
  • Mentoring, Consultancy and Workshops for Food & Drink Entrepreneurs

Growing Sales

Having a great product or service is not enough. Companies need to know how to brand, sell and market

Services We Offer:

For Pre-start-ups and start-up food companies:
  • Business Feasibility Studies
  • New Product Development
  • Raising and Managing Funds for Business
  • Costing and pricing
  • Consumer and Market Research
  • Branding
  • Labelling and Packaging for Food Companies 
  • Business Plans
For established food companies:
  • Strategic Business Plans
  • Sales and Marketing 
  • Marketing Plans 
  • Raising Brand Awareness 
  • Raising and Managing Funds for Business
  • Developing and implementing an Export Strategy and Export Development Plans 
  • Trade Missions
  • Trade Show identification and preparation