Did You Know?
- Greencore’s turnover in 2009 was €1.3 billion
- Greencore employs c.7,500 colleagues in Ireland, the UK, the US and the Netherlands
- Greencore manufactures nearly 4000 different products across about 20 different product categories - 33% of these products are refreshed every 12 months
- Greencore is market leader in the majority of the categories it operates in
- Greencore is the world`s biggest sandwich maker producing over 200 million sandwiches a year – that’s 3 sandwiches for every UK resident
- Greencore`s Grocery operation fills 150 million bottles each year, enough to stretch from Dublin to Sydney
- Greencore`s bakery at Kiveton bakes over a hundred thousand quiche a day and uses over 35 million eggs a year
- Greencore produces more than 100 million ready meals each year, which when laid out end to end would go three times around the Irish coast
- Greencore`s Hull Bakery produces over 3.5 million Christmas cakes a year
- Greencore sell enough slices of birthday cakes to stretch around the circumference of the London Eye over 16,000 times
- Greencore use 45 million tomatoes each year in its pasta sauces
- Greencore manufacture 600 million Yorkshire puddings each month – which is 100 Yorkshire pudding for each inhabitant of Yorkshire
