Peter Lacy

Budgens has been a firmly established community food retailer for over 125 years and is recognised for its support of Local Producers and Great Local Deals in the Community. Budgens stores now cover more than 25 counties, including London, with over 800,000 square feet of retail sales space, 6,000 staff and serves over 80 million customers a year. Throughout recent years, as more out of town superstores have developed and high streets abandoned by many of the major multiples, Budgens has continued to open stores serving the local community and to offer customers the opportunity to purchase quality fresh foods with a comprehensive grocery offer within the convenience of their local neighbourhood.

Mars, Inc. engages in the production of confectionery and animal food products. Its brands include M&M?s, Snickers, Twix, Milky Way, Dove, Pedigree, Whiskas, Extra, Skittles, Uncle Ben's, and Cocoavia. The company was founded by Franklin Clarence Mars in 1911 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Cubic Telecom Ltd. provides mobile network services. It develops and manufactures subscriber identity module cards. The company was founded by Pat Phelan and Barry Napier and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

ELITE SpA engages in development of technologies for financing opportunities. It offers a digital platform which includes a training program with direct access to the financial community through dedicated digital community facilities which include financing, private equity and venture capital funds, and debt products. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.

Irish Stock Exchange Ltd. lists debt and fund securities. The firm’s products and services include listing debts, quoted companies, listing funds, listing ETFs, trading members, sponsors and advisors, information services, LEI services, ISIN and CFI services, announcement services and IPOready programme. The company was founded in 1793 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Musgrave Budgens Londis owns and operates grocery stores. The company operates nearly 230 grocery stores in southern England, which sell convenience food spirits and groceries. The company provides half of the business supplies and franchises almost 2,200 independent Londis convenience stores in the UK. The company was founded on May 9, 1927 and is headquartered in London, UK.

Bord na Móna Plc is a climate solutions company, which focuses on renewable energy, recycling, and expanded peatlands rehabilitation and restoration. Its products and services include home heating and waste collection. The company was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Newbridge, Ireland.

IPL Plastics Plc engages in the manufacture of specialty packaging products used primarily in the food, consumer, agricultural, logistics and environmental end-markets. It operates through the following segments: Consumer Packaging Solutions; Large Format Packaging and Environmental Solutions; and Returnable Packaging Solutions. The Consumer Packaging Solutions segment includes specialty thin-wall injection moulded containers, lids, overcaps and custom packaging solutions for branded and private label food and consumer products customers in North America and Europe. The Large Format Packaging and Environmental Solutions segment provides a range of large pails, containers and crates for the food and consumer, environmental, retail, agricultural and industrial end-markets, with a focus on large volume, non-cosmetic products that utilize recycled polymers. The Returnable Packaging Solutions segment manufactures plastic bulk containers used in the agricultural sector. The company was founded in 2005 is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

PricewaterhouseCoopers Ireland LLP provides integrated audit, tax and advisory services. It offers audit and assurance, consulting, deals, people and organization and private business services. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Institute of Certified Public Accountants In Ireland operates as a professional body for Certified Public Accountants (CPAs). The firm offers CPD courses, CPD online, CPA webinar series, CPD online courses, practice and audit orientation online certificates. The company was founded on March 11, 1926 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

IPL Plastics Plc is a private equity firm headquartered in Dublin, Ireland which was founded in the year 2005. The firm’s Plastics Division supplies products to a broad range of customers across market sectors in Ireland, the UK, North America and China.