Musgrave Group Ltd. is an

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food wholesaler, founded in

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by the Musgrave brothers, Thomas and Stuart in 1876. It is currently Ireland's largest grocery distributor, with operations in Ireland and

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with estimated annual sales of over €4 billion. The current CEO (as of 2019) is Noel Keeley. Today, the company is still largely-owned by the Musgrave family.

Divisions

The overall business is currently made up of four divisions: *Musgrave Group is the controlling company of Musgrave, headquartered at Ballycurreen,

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, Ireland. *Musgrave Retail Partners Ireland operates the

Centra Centra is a convenience shop chain that operates throughout Ireland. The chain operates as a symbol group owned by Musgrave Group, the food wholesaler, meaning the stores are all owned by individual franchisees. The chain has three different ...

and SuperValu supermarkets in both the

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and

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, and the Mace brand in Northern Ireland. This division is headquartered at the Tramore Road in

. This is also the site of one of three distribution centres, the others being in

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and one in

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to service Northern Ireland. They closed a centre in

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in 2010. *Musgrave Wholesale Partners operates the Musgrave MarketPlace cash and carries, Daybreak

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, Day-Today & XL Stop and Shop (Northern Ireland only) convenience shops and Musgrave Foodservices. This division is headquartered at Ballymun, Dublin. There are Marketplace sites in Cork, Waterford, Limerick, Galway, Ballymun, Dun Laoighaire and Clondalkin in the Republic of Ireland. There are also three Marketplace branches in Northern Ireland in Belfast, Derry and

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. *Musgrave Retail Partners España operates from a base in

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in south-east of Spain, and operates Dialsur, and a Cash & Carry chain. The small Donnybrook Fair chain of premium supermarkets was bought in 2018 but is not expected to be integrated with the existing brands

Former divisions

*Musgrave Operating Partners Ireland operated the Superquinn chain until 13 February 2014, when all stores became SuperValu. *Musgrave Retail Partners GB operated the Londis stores and Budgens supermarkets in the

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until it was sold to

Booker Group Booker Group Limited is a British food wholesale operator and subsidiary of Tesco. In January 2017, it was announced that the British multinational supermarket retailer Tesco had agreed to purchase the company for £3.7 billion. It was confirm ...

in 2015.

References

External links

*{{official website, http://www.musgravegroup.com/ Wholesalers of the United Kingdom Companies of the Republic of Ireland Companies based in Cork (city)

Divisions

Former divisions

See also

References

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