Our Blas na hEireann finalist Choc Chunk Cookie, and Bloom Winner Crunchy Stem Ginger are joined by Chocolate Enrobed Milk Choc chunk cookie in Supervalu and Centra nationwide. While Eurospar, Spar, Londis and Mace have these delicious cookies as well as our Caramel and Pecan cookie. Which one is your favourite?
If your local shop doesn’t have our delicious East Coast Bakehouse cookies – ask them to stock us!
Sky News recently visited East Coast Bakehouse and met with our Chief Executive, Michael Carey, to discuss the importance of the Food industry to the Irish economy.
Michael Carey was on Ireland’s flagship news programme, Morning Ireland, to discuss the impact of Brexit on Irish exporters at the Enterprise Ireland conference and approach needed to be successful in a post Brexit world.
Innovation is at the heart of what we do here at East Coast Bakehouse, read some thoughts from our Managing Director, Michael Carey, as he discusses how…….
Read the full article on the Irish Times website here.
Ireland’s leading Retail trade magazine, Shelf Life, sat down with our Commercial Director Daragh Monaghan to discuss the exciting plans East Coast Bakehouse have, here’s what he had to say
Q: What products are included in East Coast Bakehouse’s portfolio – how are these innovative and how do they stand out from competitors’ offerings?
A: We’re launching the East Coast Bakehouse biscuit range initially with four cookies, Ginger Choc Chunk, Caramel & Pecan, Choc Chunk and Chocolate Enrobed Choc Chunk. All contain pure Irish butter, and are made in our bakehouse in Drogheda. We’ll follow that with further launches across the biscuit category, all made in Ireland, and all using Irish butter.
Q: How have you managed to combine the right quality with an attractive RRP for retailers?
A: Our recipes include great Irish ingredients, Irish butter and Irish oats, which really deliver in terms of taste and quality. ‘Baking Better Biscuits’ is our mantra, and we’re committed to living up to that every day. We’re a mainstream brand; the range is competitively priced, aiming to entice Irish biscuit lovers to pop East Coast Bakehouse biscuits into the trolley regularly.
Q: How do you ensure you source the best possible ingredients for your products?
A: We’ve been working closely with suppliers over the past year, ensuring that we source as many quality local Irish ingredients as we can. We’re also keen to ensure that our ingredients are from sustainable sources, and our quality systems are challenging our suppliers to raise their quality standards even further.
Q: Last year, East Coast Bakehouse told ShelfLife that: “Of the €3 million of biscuits eaten in Ireland every week, 99.9% of that is brought into Ireland.” How significant is East Coast Bakehouse’s contribution to Ireland’s economy?
A: Since we started production in Drogheda, we’ve created 38 new jobs with a plan to reach 100 jobs when we reach full capacity, subject to getting the support of our customers. We’re also sourcing Irish ingredients when possible, and working closely with many local service providers. The business has re-developed the bakehouse site, transforming a previously dilapidated and abandoned building into a state-of-the-art food production facility.
Again, local contractors and service providers have been instrumental in delivering the project, on budget and ontime! We’re aiming to reduce significantly the imports of biscuits by offering a great locally baked biscuit range, and we also anticipate that a significant proportion of our production volume will be exported.
Our Baker’s Dozen fund will collaborate with and benefit local food charities. East Coast Bakehouse is 100% Irish-owned, with revenues staying in Ireland, benefitting the local economy.
Q: Why do you feel it is important to offer an Irish biscuit option?
A: As we mentioned, almost all of the biscuits currently on retailers’ shelves are imported. We Irish love our biscuits….we’re near the top of the list in terms of per capita consumption, so we believe it’s important to offer Irish biscuit lovers a range of locally baked biscuits. We’re keen to expand the range, offering a broad product range across the category, delivering real choice to the Irish consumer.
Q: How significantly will you be investing in marketing East Coast Bakehouse’s portfolio?
A: We’re investing in a national brand launch programme, with emphasis on social media, a strong advertising campaign and an ambitious sampling plan to get East Coast Bakehouse biscuits into the hands of Irish biscuit lovers! We’re confident that the launch will result in strong consumer demand that will keep retailers’ tills ringing.
East Coast Bakehouse has launched OhMy! with a Choc Chip Cookie and Milk Chocolate Coated Choc Chip cookie. These products are the first two products to be launched under the OhMy! range and offer consumers a great tasting product at an affordable price.
The new kid on the biscuit block is OhMy!, a Choc Chip Cookie that offers great taste and value for consumers of the mainstream cookie market. The distinctive playful red logo and association with Love Irish Food ensures that consumers will make this a shopping basket regular. This 24 x 200g Choc Chip Cookie is competitively priced with a RRP of €1.29.
OhMy! is bringing innovation to the mainstream biscuit category with a half-coated Choc Chip Cookie, the 185g x 24 cookie retails at €1.49 and is unique in the category with more innovations planned in 2017.
OhMy! is distributed by Primeline Sales and Marketing in Ireland, for overseas enquires please contact our Commercial Director, Daragh Monaghan.
A very busy day at the Bakehouse today as we welcomed a camera crew and a mystery baker who will be sharing her (there’s a hint) baking secrets and taking a look at what makes our cookies so delicious.
East Coast Bakehouse, Ireland’s newest biscuit brand has recently launched with four delicious cookies – Choc Chunk, Caramel & Pecan, Choc Enrobed Choc Chunk and Stem Ginger & Choc Chunk. The range was launched and tasted by thousands of consumers at Bloom 2016 and got a universal thumbs up!
Made with Irish butter and Irish oats and proudly baked in Drogheda by our team of biscuit bakers, East Coast Bakehouse is targeting Irish biscuit lovers who are seeking better biscuits with quality ingredients, as well as switching consumers from imported biscuits, which account for 99% of biscuits sold in Ireland.
Baking biscuits that people love is our number one priority at East Coast Bakehouse and we want to produce biscuits with just that bit extra that will get people talking. Our Stem Ginger & Choc Chunk was selected as a result of over 2,000 taste tests at Bloom and our Choc Chunk Cookie is a Blas na hÉireann finalist.
With a strong launch budget of over €250,000 that includes radio, sampling, digital, PR and shopper marketing, East Coast Bakehouse aims to capture a significant share of the growing cookie segment. Available in 12 x 160g shelf ready packaging and with an RRP of €2.40 – €2.55, the East Coast Bakehouse range is firmly targeted at the mainstream biscuit consumer with more exciting biscuit launches across the biscuit category in the coming months.
East Coast Bakehouse is distributed by Primeline Sales and Marketing in Ireland, for overseas enquires please contact our Commercial Director, Daragh Monaghan.
Great news today as our Milk Choc Chunk Cookie has been short listed as a finalist in the Blas na hEireann Awards. Baked using pure Irish butter and Irish oats with generous chunk of milk chocolate, our Choc Chunk cookie went down a treat a Bloom and now it’s a favourite of the expert taste panel of Blas na hEireann.
A massive thanks to the nearly 2,000 people at Bloom who helped us choose the latest addition to the East Coast Bakehouse cookie range. It was a close call between our Mocha Choc Chunk cookie and Crunchy Stem Ginger and Choc Chunk cookie, but there can only be one winner.
Over 60% of respondents chose one cookie with comments including: “new and original”, “love the crunch”, “a fresh taste”, “love the taste hit”, “love the chocolate bits” but most of all “I love the ginger”. So watch out, for our Crunchy Stem Ginger and Choc Chunk Cookie as it hits the shelves in the next few months.
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Enrobed Coconut Crunch Biscuits
Baked using pure Irish butter, Enrobed Coconut Crunch Biscuits are crunchy coconut biscuits, fully coated in milk chocolate.
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Enrobed Double Choc Chunk Cookies
Baked using pure Irish butter, Enrobed Double Choc Chunk Cookies are crunchy cookies baked with chocolate chunks and white chocolate chunks, coated in milk chocolate.
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Enrobed Ginger Crunch Biscuits
Baked using pure Irish butter, Enrobed Ginger Crunch Biscuits are crunchy ginger biscuits, fully coated in milk chocolate.
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Triple Chocolate Chunk Cookies
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