The Irish Food and Beverage Industry Stays Resilient in 2025

Love Irish Food and Bank of Ireland recently conducted The 2025 Food and Beverage Industry Barometer and the results show resilience and innovation across the sector with an 8% annual rise in companies developing a domestic growth strategy.

The survey of 120 Irish food producers, from household brands to high-growth SMEs, captures the priorities and challenges faced across the industry.

Key takeaways include:

• More than 70% of food and drink businesses are focused on, and believe they can achieve, revenue growth
• 61% are focused on building a strong brand presence within the sector
• 66% have planned to invest in operations to improve overall efficiencies
• 95% have embedded sustainability practices into their work

Notably, the top challenges that the sector is face are cost pressures, labour availability, and shifting economic conditions.

Are you an Irish Food and Beverage producer with growth and innovation goals for 2025?

Here is how GS1 Ireland can help:

• Global QR Code Migration

  • The global migration to QR codes empowers businesses and consumers to make smarter, safer and more sustainable choices. Share more information with your consumer including nutritional information, supply chain, traceability, recycling and other valuable marketing content. Boost your brand awareness and empower your consumer with all the information they need and want about your product with QR Codes powered by GS1. Learn more about QR Code Migration.

• Access to GS1 Approved Solution Providers

  • We partner with solution providers such as QR Squared by Polytag to improve your operational efficiencies. Working with QR Squared by Polytag enables anyone to generate, edit and print QR codes powered by GS1 in three simple steps. Greenpage, another GS1 partner, is on a mission to help sustainable products to win by empowering food and consumer brands to easily provide trustworthy and engaging product sustainability information to consumers, businesses and regulators. We are continuously adding new Solutions Providers to our approved list, such as Digital Link and Orca Scan who are coming soon!
    Additionally, we have sustainability partners such as Enso who assist businesses to become sustainability leaders with measurable impacts while satisfying supply chain reporting requirements. See All GS1 Ireland Solution Providers.

• Expert Barcode Training

  • Barcode training from GS1 gives teams the confidence in using barcodes within your business. Training your employees empowers them to use the necessary tools to ensure your barcoding needs are covered. Speak to our Training Consultant about your team’s barcode training needs.

Here at GS1 Ireland we are always ready to support the Irish Food and Beverage Industry, talk to a member of our team to see how we can help you grow in 2025.